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bafaa01
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When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.
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feelings
fire
love
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Arthur Golden |
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2a48fda
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I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart.
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love
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Michael Chabon |
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0d01fdb
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Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.
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love
writers
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Christopher Bram |
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0caed43
|
And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.
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family
inspirational
love
love-quotes
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Karen Kingsbury |
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4bc0df9
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She refused at first, saying it would make a mockery of their love. She loved him too much to admit that what she thought of as unforgettable could ever be forgotten. Finally, of course, she did as he asked, but without enthusiasm. The notebooks showed it: they had many empty pages, and the entries were fragmentary.
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forgotten
fragmentary
love
mockery
pages
unforgettable
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Milan Kundera |
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bdbdf53
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She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.
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heartbreak
loss
love
melancholy
pain
sorrow
suffering
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William Goldman |
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bdedffe
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On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.
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friendship
intimacy
love
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George Eliot |
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2b5d175
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Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.
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love
shakespeare
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Allan Bloom |
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388c5b7
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I wonder if I'm being disloyal, if being with Didier means I'm forgetting about Jones. But every time I go in a drain, or past a church, I think of him. Every time I see a can of Coke, I think of Jones. And don't even start me on how I feel when I see department-store Santas. A girl doesn't forget a guy like Jones in a big hurry. Even ow, when none of us are front-page news any longer, he's always in my head. My name is Dodie. Doe - as in don't change a thing (well, a couple of things I'd change). Dee - as in delighted to have known you, Sebastian Worthington Jones. Dodie Farnshaw.
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dodie
jones
love
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Gabrielle Williams |
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4a89113
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Non spaventarti se senti le mie labbra sul collo, non volevo baciarti, e soltanto amore impacciato.
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love
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Franz Kafka |
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bfcdf72
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This is a story of eternal love, which is born among the ices but which is soon mixed with dreams of death and of a new dawn. The first heroes were those who surrendered themselves to the holocaust of love. As they died, they caught a last glimpse of the City of Dawn and felt for the last time the milky lightning of the moon.
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|
eternal-love
jung
lightning
love
miguel-serrano
moon
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Miguel Serrano |
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0a2ada8
|
"Daydreaming had spun in her head a book-length "soon-to-be" affair with Percy. He would call her when she returned home, ask her out, pick her up in a Porsche, take her to an expensive restaurant and order lobster, then to the theater, kissing her passionately in his leather upholstered seats afterwards, promising that he would see her the following day, and the day after that. She was still working on the castle-in-the-sky and the happily-ever-after chapters. It was incredible the material an innocent, half-hour conversation could generate."
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love
romance
|
Christopher Pike |
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0a1f1e7
|
How many others are out there? How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love?
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love
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Rachel Simon |
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0963391
|
"Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him. "I'm glad we're going steady," he whispered. "So am I."
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|
dating
fiction
fifteen
girl
love
romance
teen
|
Beverly Cleary |
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e49c8a4
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Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?
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|
façades
fairytale
fantasy
happy-ever-after
love
made-up
reality
romance
truth
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Margaret Peterson Haddix |
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e57d1fe
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My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
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|
divakaruni
immigrant-experience
india
indian-american
love
mothers-and-daughters
novel
novel-in-stories
women-s-books
|
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
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2df9037
|
I'm sweetness an' motherfuckin' light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit' love.
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|
light
love
sweetness
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Garth Ennis |
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486407c
|
The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line.
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love
problems
true-love
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Erin McCarthy |
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e693ab1
|
Iki saatlik yasam iki sayfalik bir yazidan daha iyidir diye emin olmayin. Yazi yoksuldur ama daha temizdir.
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|
hayat
kafka
kitap
letter
love
mektup
milena
okumak
yazı
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Franz Kafka |
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080c3c2
|
"...I love you," he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. "I'd trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems... you never deserved this... why would anyone do something so terrible!?" A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again. The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden, quicker than a lightning strike, the bulbs flickered and exploded with a few jingling pops."
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|
bulb
death
depressing
dim
electricity
empty
explode
eyes
fluorescent
friendship
grief
heart
hospital
i-love-you
lobotomy
loss
love
mental-hospital
psychosurgery
tragic
|
Rebecca McNutt |
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07ec12b
|
For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than any earthly thinker the conception that laughter is as divine as tears. He called his monks the mountebanks of God. He never forgot to take pleasure in a bird as it flashed past him, or a drop of water as it fell from his finger; he was perhaps the happiest of the sons of men. Yet this man undoubtedly founded his whole polity on the negation of what we think of the most imperious necessities; in his three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience he denied to himself, and those he loved most, property, love, and liberty. Why was it that the most large-hearted and poetic spirits in that age found their most congenial atmosphere in these awful renunciations? Why did he who loved where all men were blind, seek to blind himself where all men loved? Why was he a monk and not a troubadour? We have a suspicion that if these questions were answered we should suddenly find that much of the enigma of this sullen time of ours was answered also.
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|
hope
joy
love
saints
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G.K. Chesterton |
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2e424ef
|
It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet angry that need existed.
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friendship
love
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Robin Hobb |
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e87e368
|
Michael doesn't flinch. 'You can't know,' he says quietly, 'how much you truly love something until it's gone.' 'That's not fair,' I say as I tremble. 'No one said it would be. He tests you, Benji, and he tests Calliel for a supremely simple reason. You are tested because if you aren't, how could you know what you believe in?'
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belief
faith
love
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T.J. Klune |
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ea37cfb
|
And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.
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flaws
love
perfect
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Cecelia Ahern |
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ea3e7c6
|
Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.
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|
fighting
jealous
jealousy
love
salman-rushdie
the-satanic-verses
|
Salman Rushdie |
|
2e7ad77
|
"Anthony watched him, dumbfounded, and then turned to Lucy. "What have you done with Zack's brain?" Lucy stood to follow Zack. "What brain? I don't think he has one. I think he's just one giant exposed nerve ending. I swear sometimes at night, I can hear his neurons snapping like popcorn."
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love
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Jennifer Crusie |
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46d7df2
|
He was kind, he was single, he was vulnerable, he made her laugh (not always intentionally, true, but often enough). Every time she saw him, he seemed to have become a little more handsome.
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love
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Nick Hornby |
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2ea889a
|
I like this marriage thing, because it's the best of all of us. We get to be the whole meal. The appetizer, the entree, the luxurious dessert... And yes, the peas and the carrots.
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love
marriage
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Cassie Mae |
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2f09b4b
|
To be a bear and love a she-bear, that would not be such a bad life, and would, at least, be a far better one than to keep his reason and his thoughts, with all the rest that made him human, and yet live on alone, unloved, in sadness.
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|
love
sadness
unloved
|
Hermann Hesse |
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4596bba
|
All the way home, his wound pulsing with every hearbeat, he had cursed himself for a fool. How could he think she loved him? He had never been loved in his life, save perhaps by Erik and the other men who had served with him across the sea, and that was the love of comrades. He had never known the love of women, just their embrace. Twice he had found tears running down his face...
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|
frustration
love
romance
self-pity
|
Raymond E. Feist |
|
060e698
|
He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was.
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|
lonely
love
|
Tim LaHaye |
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ef32482
|
Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know.
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|
love
work
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Flannery O'Connor |
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f06c345
|
"I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love."
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|
feminist
feminist-quotes
independence
intellect
love
mystery
passion
romance
sherlock
|
Laurie R. King |
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053d7df
|
"What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes pondered the question a few moments before speaking. They's many a man of science would claim there aint because you got no irredeemable evidence like panther scat or fur or tooth or tail. In other words, some part of the animal in questions. Or better yet having the actual critter itself, the whole think kit and caboodle head to tail, which all your men of science argue is the best proof of all a thing exists, whether it be a panther, or a bird, or even a dinosaur." To put it another way, if you was to stub your toe and tell the man of science what happened he'd not believe a word of it less he could see how it'd stoved up or was bleeding. But your philosophers and theologians and such say there's things in the world that's every bit as real even though you can't see them." Like what?" Dunbar asked. Well," Snipes said. "They's love, that's one. And courage. You can't see neither of them, but they're real. And air, of course. That's one of your most important examples. You wouldn't be alive a minute if there wasn't air, but nobody's ever seen a single speck of it."
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|
courage
darkness
faith
love
philosophy
science
|
Ron Rash |
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43b8eeb
|
"Gloria put a bowl of stew in Peter's hands. "Eat," she said. Peter raised the spoon to his lips. He chewed. He swallowed. It had been a long time since he had eaten anything besides tiny fish and old bread. And so when Peter had his first bite of stew, it overwhelmed him. The warmth of it, the richness of it, knocked him backward; it was as if a gentle hand had pushed him when he was not expecting it. Everything he had lost came flooding back: the garden, his father, his mother, his sister, the promises that he had made and could not keep. "What's this?" said Gloria Matienne. "The boy is crying." "Shhh," said Leo. He put his hand on Peter's shoulder. "Shhh. Don't worry, Peter. Everything will be good. All will be well. We will do together whatever it is that needs to be done. But for now, you must eat." Peter nodded. He raised his spoon. Again he chewed and swallowed, and again he was overcome. He could not help it. He could not stop the tears; they flowed down his cheeks and into the bowl. "It is a very good stew, Madam Matienne. he managed to say. "Truly, it is an excellent stew." --
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love
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Kate DiCamillo |
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f0d940a
|
"Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. "Contessa.God, Contessa." She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen."
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|
italian
love
mafia
queen
|
Christie Ridgway |
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43755c2
|
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love... too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate.
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|
love
meaning
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Ralph Ellison |
|
3e88669
|
Y con animo sombrio penso en que aun estaba muy lejos de llegar a algo con una chica si solo pretendia idolatrarla y despues morir noblemente por ella.
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|
humor
love
|
Thomas Brussig |
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04b2e96
|
Coming of queer age in the 1990s, to love queers was to love damage. To love damage was a path to loving yourself. ...Queers do not come out of the minefield of homophobia without scars. We do not live through out families' rejection of us, our stunted life options, the violence we've faced, the ways in which we've violated ourselves for survival, our harmful coping mechanisms, our lifesaving delusions, the altered brain chemistry we have sustained as a result of this, the low income and survival states we've endured as a result of society's loathing, unharmed. Whatever of theses wounds I didn't experience firsthand, my lovers did, and so I say that, for a time, it was not possible to have queer love that was not ins some way damaged or defined by damage sustained, even as it desperately fought through that damage to access, hopefully, increasingly frequent moments of sustaining, lifesaving love, true love, and loyalty, and electric sex.
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|
love
pride
queer
|
Michelle Tea |
|
38c9be7
|
If you like someone, you should have to make an effort.
|
|
christmas
first-kiss
holiday
life
love
my-true-love-gave-to-me
winter
|
Stephanie Perkins |
|
3192177
|
Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry I can say nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.
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|
love
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
|
319bb2e
|
An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience.
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|
love
moraily
politics
property
relationships
sci-fi
women
|
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
38cc531
|
He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, however slight, and without the rhythm of her breath the dark had no measure. There were times he woke feeling cold from the lack of the heat that once came from between her thighs and behind her knees. He might have even called her, if he could have momentarily forgotten that he already knew everything she could possibly say.
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|
love
marriage
sleeping-together
|
Nicole Krauss |
|
f37131c
|
Most folks believe we are hardwired biologically to long for sex but they do not believe we are hardwired to long for love. Almost everyone believes that we can have sex without love; mosr folks do not believe that a couple can have love in a relationship if there is no sex.
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|
love
relationships
sex
|
Bell Hooks |
|
3d77882
|
To his surprise, Jean kissed him. So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Now she did, and it was a quick and fragrant touch to his lips that gave him courage and, even before he started out made him yearn to come back home.
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|
hope
kiss
love
|
Lois Lowry |
|
f4279bf
|
When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.
|
|
circus
dating
funny
girls
humor
life
life-experience
love
teenagers
|
Annette Curtis Klause |
|
3d4484f
|
I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.
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|
friendship
love
|
Allan Bloom |
|
3d2774f
|
Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.
|
|
fate
love
|
Daniel Abraham |
|
032250c
|
You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.
|
|
freedom-to-love
love
|
Patricia A. McKillip |
|
3cb0320
|
Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
|
|
love
pride
thinking
|
John Piper |
|
02919e3
|
"Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to me the fragility of my faith that I am the Beloved One on whom God's favor rests. I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and thereby assure myself of the love I think I need and deserve. And in so doing I move far away from my father's home and choose to dwell in a "distant country," (pp. 41 & 42)."
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|
love
|
Henri J.M. Nouwen |
|
f5625fa
|
All that time tying herself up in knots because she simply couldn't think of a good reason not to be with him
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|
heartbreak
love
|
Chris Manby |
|
0236c5e
|
The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he was leaving the next morning but that he had gone away many years before with the irrevocable determination never to return.
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|
love
sadness
|
Gabriel García Márquez |
|
f5e456f
|
She'll be willing to meet someone who can hold her interest for more than a few months, and that guy will teach her about domestic deepenings, the modest reliable thrill of the familiar, which as almost everyone but Liz knows has been the way of human happiness since humanity was born.
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|
love
|
Michael Cunningham |
|
f657b91
|
Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.
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|
hate
love
|
Richard Wright |
|
01dccdf
|
In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not love that is the order of the day. The privilege of power is at the heart of patriarchal thinking. Girls and boys, men and women who have been taught this way almost always believe love is not important, or if it is, it is never as important as being powerful, dominant, in control, on top-being right. Women who give seemingly selfless adoration and care to the men in their lives appear to be obsessed with 'love,' but in actuality their actions are often a covert way to hold power. Like their male counterparts, they enter relationships speaking the words of love even as their actions indicate that maintaining power and control is their primary agenda.
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|
affection
bell-hooks
control
feminism
feminist
gender
love
love-quotes
manipulation
mars
men-are-from-mars
power
romance
venus
women-are-from-venus
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bell hooks |
|
f6d2f79
|
Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.
|
|
love
soul-mates
true-love
|
Art Spiegelman |
|
01cf655
|
"Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")"
|
|
love
relationships
|
Cornell Woolrich |
|
839bfe3
|
She understood perfectly that when the object of anticipation becomes paramount, trouble begins to lurk like a panther.
|
|
love
panthers
trouble
|
Richard Ford |
|
8521ec3
|
We all have to love you, and believe in you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.
|
|
look
looking
love
mothers
parents
see
sight
trust
|
V.C. Andrews |
|
8529d0a
|
IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.
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|
love
surprise
|
James Patterson |
|
3a4192b
|
"You tormented
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|
love
|
Federico García Lorca |
|
194f760
|
I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.
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love
science
|
Max Barry |
|
b32b8d5
|
Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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|
heart
love
peace
pray
wholeness
|
Stormie Omartian |
|
cec320c
|
"Amphora," he murmured against the wide, sweet curve of her lips. His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance. "Like a Grecian vase. God, you've got the most beautiful arse!" "Jug-butt, huh?"
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|
arse
ass
butt
diana-gabaldon
drums-of-autumn
grecian
hips
humor
jug
lips
love
outlander
|
Diana Gabaldon |
|
cf05dd3
|
You must remind me, little one. When I... when I lose myself - when I lose her - you must remind me that I am still searching, still waiting... that I have never forgotten her, never turned from all she taught me. I sit in this place... I sit... because a king has to sit, you see... but in my mind, in my poor mind, I am always away with her....
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love
memory
|
Peter S. Beagle |
|
5c072e4
|
The moment when mortality, ephemerality, uncertainty, suffering, or the possibility of change arrives can split a life in two. Facts and ideas we might have heard a thousand times assume a vivid, urgent, felt reality. We knew them then, but they matter now. They are like guests that suddenly speak up and make demands upon us; sometimes they appear as guides, sometimes they just wreck what came before or shove us out the door. We answer them, when we answer, with how we lead our lives. Sometimes what begins as bad news prompts the true path of a life, a disruptive visitor that might be thanked only later. Most of us don't change until we have to, and crisis is often what obliges us to do so. Crises are often resolved only through anew identity and new purpose, whether it's that of a nation or a single human being.
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|
crisis
identity
love
mortality
|
Rebecca Solnit |
|
abee3b8
|
Every fall into love is the triumph of hope over self-knowledge
|
|
essays
idealization
love
on-love
philosophy
|
Alain de Botton |
|
cf55ad0
|
Love is not for the undepilated.
|
|
love
|
Alice Munro |
|
cfbea94
|
Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.
|
|
felt
he-knew
his-life
life
love
love-of-his-life
meant-the-most
missed
one-person
only-love
women
|
Larry McMurtry |
|
5be7492
|
I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand, because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.
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love
sad
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Marta Acosta |
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cfee359
|
He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together.
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desire
love
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Ann Patchett |
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cff571a
|
For here you were, Big James, named for me--you were a big baby, I was not--here you were, to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.
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black-history
love
loveless
strength
world
|
James Baldwin |
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a9bc24f
|
"Well... "why" is a hard question to answer in any language."
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life
love
why
|
Elizabeth Gilbert |
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a9a470f
|
It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.
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|
endings
love
love-hurts
love-quotes
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Abigail Thomas |
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b1d9b17
|
When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.
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fulfillment
god
gods-love
love
mission
purpose
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Elizabeth George |
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a8dc14a
|
The love of minds should last beyond lives.
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lives
love
minds
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Don DeLillo |
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5b5a2aa
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When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles's passion was nothing very exorbitant.
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lack-of-love
love
restlessness
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Gustave Flaubert |
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ac7c66b
|
The chilling thought occurred to me that breaking up with someone you love to criticize might be the only way to save yourself from becoming unlovable
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humor
love
|
Bob Smith |
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a8a7cbc
|
Stay with me always, my sweet, my love . . . my Claire.
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|
claire
jusin
love
teresa-medeiros
|
Teresa Medeiros |
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619b6dd
|
He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.
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|
beauty
face
female
feminine
love
nudity
romance
romantic
sex
sexy
sweet
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Jean-Paul Sartre |
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743990e
|
La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'e cosa piu imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere e l'imprevisto.
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life
love
unexpected
|
Victor Hugo |
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d4aea0b
|
Lavorava per vivere; poi, sempre per vivere, poiche anche il cuore ha fame, amo.
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love
|
Victor Hugo |
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a7da334
|
How much misery . . . how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous. If we could only pair-bond for life, like gibbons, or else opt for total guilt-free promiscuity, there'd be no more sexual torment. Better plan - make it cyclical and also inevitable, as in the other mammals. You'd never want someone you couldn't have.
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|
love
sex
|
Margaret Atwood |
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c95749f
|
My best friend has warned me to stay away. Violet, a girl raised by the Terror, has warned me to stay away, but even after digesting her advice, knowing the rumors and experiencing what I have, I can't leave. The bandage on Razor's arm and the cuts and bruises along his side testify to how dangerous his life is, but with one long look into those beautiful eyes , I know that I'm a lost cause to logic. I've already fallen in love.
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|
falling-in-love
first-love
katie-mcgarry
love
romance
young-adult
|
Katie McGarry |
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6fb0648
|
Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.
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|
james-baldwin
love
|
bell hooks |
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c936336
|
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, to your community around you, to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
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|
devote
important
life
live
love
meaning
purpose
wrong
|
Mitch Albom |
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c92ee80
|
it is the responsibility of free men to trust and celebrate what is constant--birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so--and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change.
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|
death
love
|
James Baldwin |
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59e5eb5
|
Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.
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|
innocence
love
sexuality
|
Daniel Defoe |
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61f1d0b
|
Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.
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|
christopher-pike
love
remember-me
remember-me-2
sacred
spiritualism
the-return
|
Christopher Pike |
|
8d7aa3a
|
... a dor de um coracao partido nunca vai embora, apenas fica anestesiada.
|
|
love
pain
portugues
portuguese
|
Julia Quinn |
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a2bce5a
|
"He may care for her, though she really has been almost rude to him at times. But she! - why, Margaret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do."
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|
love
victorian
|
Elizabeth Gaskell |
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a202347
|
But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue
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|
loss
love
miscarriage
motherhood
parenthood
|
Ariel Levy |
|
d8a2944
|
Mark my words, Alex. You are a man whose future lies before him for all to marvel at one day. And you, Colonel Hamilton, are mine, and I am yours always.
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|
always
love
|
Melissa de la Cruz |
|
76cf413
|
But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.
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|
love
|
Daria Snadowsky |
|
8d58310
|
Only I had dry eyes, a dry heart.
|
|
heartache
incest
loss
love
|
V.C. Andrews |
|
a0c2338
|
"The Church makes no man less free than he was before. But we chiefly value freedom in order to give it away; every man who loves surrenders his freedom, whether his passion be the love of a woman, the love of a cause, or the love of God. . . Hence: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Everyone wants the things that only a love of God will bring to him, but most men today seek them in the wrong places. That is why no one comes to God without a revolution of the spirit; he must stop seeking his good in Godlessness."
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|
godlessness
goodness
love
|
Fulton J. Sheen |
|
d96f8a9
|
Sex is an act of pleasure and an expression of love. How better to communicate one's deepest feelings than without the clumsy use of words? -- Andre Chevalier
|
|
feelings-of-love
love
sex
|
Nikki Sex |
|
fe46651
|
Es que hasta la alegria que produce la presencia del hombre a quien se ama se siente mejor a solas. Si la presencia fuera de el continua, solo estaria presente en su constante transcurrir. Detenerla solo es posible en los ratos de soledad
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|
love
soledad
solitude
|
Milan Kundera |
|
da40904
|
He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.
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|
love
relationships
|
Nick Hornby |
|
da63284
|
A relationship is like a garden. To create a condition that will cause your plants to thrive and produce abundantly, you must weed, water, fertilize, and care for the plants in your garden. You must also know about the special needs of the plants you're caring for. Some need more or less light than others, some need more or less water than others, and some need special fertilizers.
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|
inspiration
life
love
relationships
the-laws-of-love
|
Chris Prentiss |
|
7e394b3
|
I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.
|
|
illusion
investment
love
moment
relationship
sex
|
Chuck Palahniuk |
|
da9bfc8
|
L'amore e una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perche amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidita, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli e piu prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente.
|
|
jewish
love
love-and-hate
love-hurts
love-quotes
philosophical
philosophy
philosophy-of-life
religion
|
Amos Oz |
|
da9ecac
|
"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling -- it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise," writes psychologist Erich Fromm. "If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?"
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|
love
marriage
promises
|
Ada Calhoun |
|
6f44317
|
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its maxims. It has no temple nor even a solitary column...However, out fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the chief stress on likeness and not on difference, and in foreign bodies we admit that there are many degrees of warmth below blood heat, but none of cold above it.
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|
friendship
humanity
kinship
love
|
Henry David Thoreau |
|
db6d82a
|
Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not let myself become that unmindful. Isn't that what love is - losing your mind? You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally - that's the worst, I think, deficient morals.
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|
love
morals
|
Amy Tan |
|
9ef28cc
|
Man svarbu moketi myleti pasauli, neniekinti jo, nejausti neapykantos jam ir sau, zvelgti i ji, i save ir i visas butybes su meile, susizavejimu ir didzia pagarba.
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|
love
siddhartha
|
Hermann Hesse |
|
9ed3cfd
|
Watch over Honoria, will you? See she doesn't marry an idiot. (Daniel Smythe-Smith)
|
|
love
|
Julia Quinn |
|
7ee90fe
|
He might've only been seventeen, but he knew he wanted Jenna in his life as long as he lived.
|
|
inspirational
love
romance
|
Karen Kingsbury |
|
534eee4
|
"Catti-brie had to believe that now, recalling the scene in light of the drow's words. She had to believe that her love for Wulfgar had been real, very real, and not misplaced, that he was all she had thought him to be. Now she could. For the first time since Wulfgar's death, Cattie-brie could remember him without pangs of guilt, without the fears that, had he lived, she would not have married him. Because Drizzt was right; Wulfgar would have admitted the error despite his pride, and he would have grown, as he always had before. That was the finest quality of the man, an almost childlike quality, that viewed the world and his own life as getting better, as moving toward a better way in a better place. What followed was the most sincere smile on Cattie-brie's face in many, many months. She felt suddenly free, suddenly complete with her past, reconciled and able to move forward with her life. She looked at the drow, wide-eyed, with a curiosity that seemed to surprise Drizzt. She could go on, but what exactly did that mean? Slowly, Cattie-brie began shaking her head, and Drizzt came to understand that the movement had something to do with him. He lifted a slender hand and brushed some stray hair back from her cheek, his ebony skin contrasting starkly with her light skin, even in the quiet light of night. "I do love you," the drow admitted. The blunt statement did not catch Catti-brie by surprise, not at all. "As you love me," Drizzt went on, easily, confident that his words were on the mark. "And I, too, must look ahead now, must find my place among my friends, beside you, without Wulfgar." "Perhaps in the future," Catti-brie said, her voice barely a whisper. "Perhaps," Drizzt agreed. "But for now..." "Friends," Catti-brie finished. Drizzt moved his hand back from her cheek, held it in the air before her face, and she reached up and clasped it firmly. Friends"
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|
love
|
R.A. Salvatore |
|
b6ac903
|
"She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What I wouldn't have given for a love like this!"
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|
jealousy
love
|
Gabriel García Márquez |
|
dc77a97
|
I believe his lies, so he believes mine.' She turns and looks at me straight on. 'That's how it goes at the end of love.
|
|
lies
love
relationships
|
Paul Murray |
|
dcd9731
|
I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work.
|
|
fairy-tales
love
love-at-first-sight
love-is-hard
love-quotes
true-love
|
bell hooks |
|
dce2077
|
"So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love."
|
|
lola-and-the-boy-next-door
lola-nolan
love
mistakes
romance
|
Stephanie Perkins |
|
dd665c6
|
For two nights Felicite never left the dead girl. She said the same prayers over and over again, sprinkled holy water on the sheets, then sat down again to watch. At the end of her first vigil, she noticed that the child's face had gone yellow, the lips were turning blue, the nose looked sharper, and the eyes were sunken. She kissed them several times, and would not have been particularly surprised if Virginie had opened them again: to minds like hers the supernatural is a simple matter. She laid her out, wrapped her in a shroud, put her in her coffin, placed a wreath on her, and spread out her hair. It was fair and amazingly long for her age. Felicite cut off a big lock, half of which she slipped into her bosom, resolving never to part with it.
|
|
love
superstition
|
Gustave Flaubert |
|
b76510d
|
For marriage has nothing in common with love. marriage makes for security; love makes only for suffering. On the other hand, love could be so distilled, spun so fine as to implicate third and fourth persons, as to take up three or four exciting acts in a play.
|
|
life
love
marriage
nobel-prize
quotes
|
Günter Grass |
|
9dff829
|
Each kiss was nearer to the last one of all.
|
|
love
romance
romantic
|
Philip Pullman |
|
c7741a3
|
"It's my letter," she began. "I cannot make it right." "Come in, come in," the Prince said gently. "Maybe we can help you." She sat down in the same chair as before. "All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me." " 'Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only, my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' " She looked at Humperdinck. "Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?" "It does seem a bit forward," the Prince admitted. "It doesn't leave him a great deal of room to maneuver."
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|
humor
letters
love
melancholy
|
William Goldman |
|
9ddb79d
|
Not always getting what you want, but sometimes getting what you need.
|
|
christmas
first-kiss
holiday
life
love
my-true-love-gave-to-me
winter
|
Stephanie Perkins |
|
de3efa9
|
"What are you doing?" Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. "See, don't be afraid of the glass, it can't hurt us," Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass. "I wasn't afraid of the glass, but this isn't a very secluded place that you just decided to vandalize," Alecto cautioned, smiling despite his words. Before Mandy could reply, she heard loud whispering in the air, behind the trees... it sounded like a group of people, all whispering in unison... "Somebody's out there," she exclaimed nervously. "Yeah, you're right," Alecto replied. Suddenly a sharp new vibrancy seemed to fill his eyes and he smiled coldly, taking the tree branch from Mandy and rapidly smashing in all of Mrs. Matthias' stained glass house windows with it. Blue, green, yellow, red, turquoise, purple and an array of other colors showered through the sky noisily, sounding like wind chimes and crashing waves. "They'll go away," he told her, glancing up at the sky. "...Alecto, do you like me?" Mandy questioned, holding out her arms like a lopsided scarecrow as the glass fell through her dark red hair. "Yeah, sure," he answered. "Will you be my friend, then? A real friend, not just another person who feels sorry for me?" Mandy asked. "...Alright, Mandy Valems," Alecto agreed."
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|
air
best-friends
blue
canada
cape-breton
children
colored
crashing
cut
depression
flashcube
friend
friends
friendship
fun
funny
glass
glitter
green
greenhouse
growing-up
house
kodak
love
noir
noise
nostalgia
nova-scotia
red
scarecrow
sharp
shatter
smile
sorry
stained-glass
trees
vandalism
vibrancy
waves
whispering
wind-chimes
yellow
|
Rebecca McNutt |
|
4156a85
|
and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?
|
|
love
|
Emily Giffin |
|
de61940
|
I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.
|
|
bad
canada
life
love
montréal
pg-76
relationships
thirteen
weakness
|
Heather O'Neill |
|
9dc2c37
|
The same virtues, in the end, the same virtue (love), are required throughout, and fantasy (self) can prevent us from seeing a blade of grass just as it can prevent us from seeing another person. An increasing awareness of 'goods' and the attempt (usually only partially successful) to attend to them purely, without self, brings with it an increasing awareness of the unity and interdependence of the moral world. One-seeking intelligence is the image of faith.
|
|
fantasy
good
illusion
intellect
love
self
unity
vision
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
e1bc187
|
"By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling "the void" with a husband like Hiram, a "treasure rich and undeserved." Having read his insufferable memoir, "A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands", all I can say is: I'm happy for her?"
|
|
humor
love
marriage
|
Sarah Vowell |
|
e1f5874
|
Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and - and can one really be unhappy? Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy? You know, I don't understand how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it! Or to speak with a man and not be happy in loving him? Oh, it's just that I can't express it - and yet there are so many things at every stop so beautiful that even the most desolate of men find them beautiful. Look at a child, look at Go's sunrise, look at the grass, how it grows, look into eyes that look at you and love you -
|
|
life
love
meaning-in-life
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
|
b862b1b
|
Tum asiklar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmustu.
|
|
love
|
Umberto Eco |
|
805c61c
|
In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.
|
|
love
mortality
|
Lewis Nordan |
|
50c9c70
|
I did not know, until then, that you could disappear into someone's gaze, that bone and heart and breath could melt like shadow into light, until only light was left.
|
|
love
|
Patricia A. McKillip |
|
b8fb3f8
|
How is it possible to hate something so completely and then suddenly love it so unreasonably?
|
|
hate
love
|
Zadie Smith |
|
b921ee0
|
He thought her more beautiful than ever, with a beauty that was at once feminine and angelic, that wholeness of beauty that had moved Petrarch to song and brought Dante to his knees.
|
|
love
romance
|
Victor Hugo |
|
e646ef1
|
You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart
|
|
love
|
Philippa Gregory |
|
4fd8ad4
|
And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.
|
|
love
relationship
|
Scott Westerfeld |
|
8d17d0b
|
Life is hard, so what? It's hard for everyone, isn't it? Anyone who says it's easy is a liar.
|
|
love
rosie
|
Cecelia Ahern |
|
9aae6f0
|
Don't fasten on Dorothy. Only unanswerable longing lies down that road. Gone is gone.
|
|
love
move-on
|
Gregory Maguire |
|
4fcd2fe
|
"The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. "This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment." --
|
|
love
magic
marriage
reflection
relationship
thoughts
wedding
|
Mitch Albom |
|
9a1f428
|
Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away...and forgiveness descends.
|
|
love
|
Julian Barnes |
|
e96f218
|
Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.
|
|
dejah-thoris
john-carter
love
passionate
passionate-love
romance
romantic
sad
|
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
|
c682f6b
|
Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.
|
|
autistic
lithium
lizard
love
politicians
speed
spider-jerusalem
|
Warren Ellis |
|
4f734e4
|
"Sounds like that happens to you a lot. Bet your girlfriend wasn't thrilled, though." She wasn't sure why she said it, but it came out before she could think. "Who said I have a girlfriend?" He said, raising his scarred eyebrow. His dark eyes crinkled. "No one," she said. " Well, I don't anymore, if anyone's interested." "Who's interested?" "Are you?" He looked her straight in the eye. "I could ask the same of you," she scoffed. "So what if I was? Interested, I mean." He shrugged. "It wouldn't be a surprise," she said. "I'm sure half the crew has a crush on me."
|
|
girlfriend
love
natasha-kestal
ryan-wesson
|
Melissa de la Cruz |
|
bd1b0b4
|
Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been evaluating my relationships from a standpoint that emphasized growth rather than duty and obligation, I would have understood that abuse irreparably undermines bonds. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.... Women who would no more tolerate a friendship in which they were emotionally and physically abused stay in romantic relationships where these violations occur regularly. Had they brought to these bonds the same standards they bring to friendship they would not accept victimization.
|
|
bell-hooks
feminism
feminist
friendships-and-love
love
love-quotes
respect
|
bell hooks |
|
99a4d02
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...But although the rules are vague And widely disregarded now Some precepts remain: live with love - That is a rule we all can understand; Forgive those who need forgiveness, Which I think is everybody, more or less; Be kind - that, perhaps, is first and foremost In any postmodern, new-fangled Code we devise for ourselves; Yes, be kind: love one another, And most of all tend with gentleness The small patch of terra firma That is allocated to each of us...
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angus-lordie-s-poems
how-to-live
love
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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"I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious. "Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register. By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart." He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on its ass." "You'd be surprised." Seven spread the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me." I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life."
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julia-romano
love
seven-the-bartender
true-love
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Jodi Picoult |
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No matter how it seems now, I must confess: I loved him. I do not think that I will ever love anyone like that again. And this might be a great relief if I did not also know that, when the knife has fallen, Giovanni, if he feels anything will feel relief.
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declaration-of-love
giovanni-s-room
james-baldwin
love
never-again
one-and-only
one-true-love
relief
sad
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James Baldwin |
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We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft.
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children
love
marriage
parallel-universes
science
thriller
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Blake Crouch |