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d883863 When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray love clary-fray mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
21ad482 "Of course he loves me. I'm his sister." "Blood isn't love," said Magnus, and his voice was bitter." love isabelle-lightwood magnus-bane Cassandra Clare
b7add27 You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you. love David Nicholls
95136b2 Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. risk love fear-of-flying Erica Jong
c3e4178 I want you any way I can get you. Not because you're beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you're all those things. I want you because there's no one else like you, and I don't ever want to start a day without seeing you. love soulmate Lisa Kleypas
4094592 Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. dogs love pets John grogan
42fa93c Each time you happen to me all over again. love Edith Wharton
fa0ab21 If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. gratitude love soul loyalty James Herriot
856f1d9 The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) humor love William Goldman
013142c Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody--really want him--it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury. love longing Elizabeth Gilbert
b9f97e7 We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world. love Nicholas Sparks
f0a971e "How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all? Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down." reality love only-forward Michael Marshall Smith
f4e0078 "How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all? Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down." -- reality love only-forward Michael Marshall Smith
3f8209e I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. love Richard Bach
dd568c3 Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her. love daemon-black-pov katy-and-daemon katy-swartz Jennifer L. Armentrout
f827da4 You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too. religion love James Joyce
593e612 I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn. passion love tamlin fire Sarah J. Maas
2827594 Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him. beauty love well-said Cassandra Clare
f528340 Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more. love fair-play Laurell K. Hamilton
3e45173 Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. lover words earth poetry reason imagination fantasy love devils egypt helen lunatic madmen poet Shakespeare William Shakespeare
d2d92df Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. integrity marriage feelings self-determination romance joy love matrimony duty Jane Austen
117e428 "May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there--not in heaven--not perished--where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there--not in heaven--not perished--where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you--haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" hate death love thwarted malediction obsession Emily Brontë
129f96b Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. being-human humanism human humanity learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life love inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy human-nature Roy T. Bennett
f82e334 You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that. laughter love Cassandra Clare
a1943f8 He was the toast to her butter. love Nicholas Sparks
5346599 The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares...And the huntress with an artist's soul. love shivers wonderful Sarah J. Maas
5c22b8b I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard. love devotion ignorance William Goldman
d1b365e He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe. relationships love Paulo Coelho
9cdc163 She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer. pain sorrow love longing unrequited-love T.H. White
6e7d9b6 Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same. god spiritual love inspirational Jack Kerouac
5716e8c Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please -- a little less love, and a little more common decency'. humor love respect Kurt Vonnegut
4c67156 "I love you" I say. "I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon." love tris Veronica Roth
1686dda Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. young-adult life love inspirational Nicola Yoon
8810122 I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself. love Haruki Murakami
e74f3f0 Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. humour relationships women love Marian Keyes
d58a31c But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. love clary-fray lost Cassandra Clare
d2bed66 Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be. romance love demon-cynster longing Stephanie Laurens
46645b5 You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about. happy heartbreak love hurt self Melissa de la Cruz
e26bebe Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. relationships life love Chuck Palahniuk
18b0ef3 "Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same." spiritual love inspirational Jack Kerouac
1f85264 I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been. past love intimacy memory Raymond Carver
23b5441 " , . Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more." relationships love definition David Levithan
d153b23 Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. clothe ill christianity jesus care motivational life love inspirational feed unwanted hungry welcome golden-rule christmas service naked christ forgive enemies guilty Steve Maraboli
d485cb9 Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? pain human god love hurt Jacqueline Carey
78bae98 There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. heartbreak love narrative moment Douglas Adams
7ef5dff "It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. love David Levithan
689889a These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you. love lady-midnight julian-blackthorn Cassandra Clare
8420083 So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream. love possessiveness Jodi Picoult
8a81245 If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'. violence love Kurt Vonnegut
09fa53f Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. love self-sacrifice Stephenie Meyer
c139791 O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain! shakespeare hate poetry love William Shakespeare
a77e8d0 Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak. love inspirational Margaret Weis
afd65f1 It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. optimism love inspirational possibilities Nicholas Sparks
9b7cce4 Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. memories letting-go life-lessons life love not-letting-go haruki murakami
06dfe32 Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again. love John O'Donohue
0975369 And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. sex morality love Kurt Vonnegut
7a3d4c2 It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. world love philosophy hermann-hesse respect Hermann Hesse
2b7773a This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work. love Mitch Albom
04550d8 Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back. love herondale clary-fray jace shadowhunters Cassandra Clare
266c644 If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have. love John O'Donohue
97a22c8 I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live. passion inspiration inspirational-life inspirational-quotes living life love inspirational inspirational-love meaning-of-life C. JoyBell C.
1504117 Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. romance love Graham Greene
66b4673 "Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy's ear. "I love you." She wasn't sure he could hear her--but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words." love percy-jackson Rick Riordan
e1ac773 ...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known? friendship love William Shakespeare
8e275f7 Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive. love Mitch Albom
3741a00 You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it. romance love Nicholas Sparks
df0a150 So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.' I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.' There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair... love J.K. Rowling
cc3f544 Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. love inspirational smile Mother Teresa
9b0d9a3 It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. love Tom Stoppard
e183f8c Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. life-and-learning inspirational-love-quotes people learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living love inspirational learning-the-truth belong inspirational-love belonging changing growing person C. JoyBell C.
3b574ab "The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- poetry love Robert Frost
3bae143 Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. action abundance nature choice motivational success happiness hope love inspirational Steve Maraboli
15e47c5 It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. love Graham Greene
babc3cb "Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but the smile doesn't spread to his eyes, which look less tense and worried. "You belong here, you know that?" he says. "You belong with us. It'll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?" He scratches behind his ear and looks away, like he's embarrassed by what he said. I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe. I stare up at him, and he stares down at me. For a long moment, we stay that way. Then I pull my hand away and run after Uriah and Lynn and Marlene. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it." love truth Veronica Roth
325c974 How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? mourning loss death heart love casket funeral Jodi Picoult
5eba938 "And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum." -- funny humor love eric teenage-love teen crazy Cassandra Clare
589bb49 The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. friendship love inspirational community connection goethe Goethe
694825c They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. love Leo Tolstoy
4ab94da It's important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. experiences mind thoughts kindness joy empathy compassion inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life love inspirational generosity belief humility peace Roy T. Bennett
b038c23 The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came. love inspirational dating-advice Jonathan Antin
2244055 Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles shatter-me young-adult hate love inspirational dystopia Tahereh Mafi
edb36ec She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. love mr-darcy Jane Austen
f138b61 "His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn't sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet, just far enough that their fingers touched-so lightly that she would have probably hardly been aware of it had she been touching anyone but Jace; as it was, the nerve endings in her fingertips pricked softly, as if she were holding them over a low flame. She felt him tense beside her and then relax. He had shut his eyes, and his lashes cast fine shadows against the curve of his cheekbones. His mouth curled into a smile as if he sensed her watching him, and she wondered how he would look in the morning, with his hair messed and sleep circles under his eyes. Despite everything, the thought gave her a jolt of happiness. She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark." love jace-and-clary jace-wayland Cassandra Clare
77befd3 "They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with." ... As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if." love fates punishment percy-jackson regret cruel Rick Riordan
fefb672 Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. strength love Hermann Hesse
0521a45 When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some ... Read Moresort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain. If there is a noise it s internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It trashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That s what it looks like and that s what it sounds like a trashing panicking trapped great big beast roaring like a prisoner to its own emotions. But that s the thing about love no one is untouchable. love cecelia-ahernt if-you-could-see-me-now Cecelia Ahern
582cedf If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. songwriter life love inspirational pop singer Michael Jackson
d269dbf I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you. men relationships love Dorothy Parker
f710272 Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. passion love sexuality Anaïs Nin
360e9ca We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break romance letting-go love inspirational breakup goodbye release Jenny Han
5768136 If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free. love Paulo Coelho
1e21f23 She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? jealousy wonder sadness heartbreak love Cassandra Clare
4503666 "Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" love truth the-fault-in-our-stars promises John Green
d02c77b So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. love service Robert Louis Stevenson
c78a487 What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? marriage sorrow relationship death sadness love fellowship memory George Eliot
443503f I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor. marriage love W. Somerset Maugham
bd604e0 "Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time." woman life love hurt Mario Puzo
b73e6ec Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. hatred misattributed-to-isaac-newton understanding sympathy racism men hate empathy compassion love inspirational culture-wars bridges misattributed intolerance cultures walls tolerance bigotry culture separation Joseph Fort Newton
95831ab Love is too precious to be ashamed of. prejudice romance happiness love inspirational Laurell K. Hamilton
d590551 "Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. love Jonathan Safran Foer
ca5985e I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. love parenting Anne Lamott
1614483 No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John love nicholas-sparks Nicholas Sparks
90376fc Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love. grief life love Jonathan Safran Foer
855d346 "Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear." love pg-234 jem-carstairs jace-herondale Cassandra Clare
92bb95e Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie. true-love love carlos kiara Simone Elkeles
90fa8a0 "When my died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with . But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as true-love love ann-druyan cosmos sagan carl-sagan belief atheism superstition Ann Druyan
824af4b "We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. pain poetry freedom fear life love lonliness Maya Angelou
8c09d2c Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! romance faith heartbreak life-lessons hope life love inspirational hurt-feelings hurting-heart breakup broken-hearted-quotes heartbroken broken-heart broken broken-hearted healing heartache hurt dating hurting Jocelyn Soriano
ee0bffd Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. There is nothing in nature like it. Not in robins or bison or in the banging tails of your hunting dogs and not in blossoms or suckling foal. Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplations - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-carefully. And if you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love. Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges: the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it. How do you know you have graduated? You don't. What you do know is that you are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself which is to say He is interested only in love. Do you understand me? God is not interested in you. He is interested in love and the bliss it brings to those who understand and share the interest. Couples that enter the sacrament of marriage and are not prepared to go the distance or are not willing to get right with the real love of God cannot thrive. They may cleave together like robins or gulls or anything else that mates for life. But if they eschew this mighty course, at the moment when all are judged for the disposition of their eternal lives, their cleaving won't mean a thing. God bless the pure and holy. Amen. love Toni Morrison
9ebd496 What does the brain matter compared with the heart? love Virginia Woolf
4f14999 "my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" motherhood pain love facade Charles Bukowski
7c0b24e "You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?" love richard-gansey the-raven-king Maggie Stiefvater
2bd6640 "I have always found that actively loving love Alan Paton
c82246f It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary. jason-mraz imagination dreams life love truth inspirational test Jason Mraz
cdf9fcf "I'm stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me." I'm not hitting on you," he protested. No?" Believe me, you'd know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms." humor love Nicholas Sparks
12a8677 "But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; joy love Kahlil Gibran
126fb50 The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. perfection love irresistibility pip Charles Dickens
6721215 See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek! love glove hand-in-glove longing touch William Shakespeare
c003606 Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you. sex relationships love Haruki Murakami
8a2b89e Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too. romance love Sophie Kinsella
021c697 What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! love bill-weasley fleur-delacour J.K. Rowling
03fbd3d Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. pure-awareness purifying mind nature beauty love inspirational relaxation beauty-in-nature mindfulness meditation nature-s-beauty Amit Ray
b40ec48 Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. pain true true-love love scars Jonathan Tropper
3dcc72c Sweets to the sweet. shakespeare love William Shakespeare
656d31b Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. revenge love incurable retaliation wounds Euripides
23c0c8b Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself. love John O'Donohue
9f4fab9 But what was there to say grief sadness happiness love inspirational emptiness forbidden quietness laws Arundhati Roy
ea0792a You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever. love Stephenie Meyer
3c7e715 "Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze. She loosed a shuddering breath, and a small, whimpering noise came out of her - a sob. And then she was sprinting down the alley, flying as though the winds themselves pushed at her heels. She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. Nesryn made to approach, but Aedion stopped her with a hand on her arm. Aelin was laughing as she cried, and the male was just holding her, his hooded head buried in her neck. As if he were breathing her in. "Who is that?" Nesryn asked. Aedion smiled. "Rowan." love throne-of-glass rowan-whitethorn aelin-ashryver-galathynius queen-of-shadows Sarah J. Maas
8c2b374 If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. love message-in-a-bottle wondering nicholas-sparks feeling regret Nicholas Sparks
0511640 I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me. love together Veronica Roth
876d504 You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. love inspirational Leo Tolstoy
2b3e9f4 Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us. family love Christopher Paolini
1275fb0 Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken. pain personality treasure life love dancing neil-gaiman the-graveyard-book name pleasure Neil Gaiman
5392ad1 Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones? friends life love inspirational Jenny Han
2deeede If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. woman love memoirs Arthur Golden
94af872 You have my whole heart. You always did. love fidelity Cormac McCarthy
72efc02 "I love you," I said, and stabbed him." -- love stabbed tamlin Sarah J. Maas
cbc4408 But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. grief sadness happiness love inspirational forbidden quietness laws Arundhati Roy
7285220 But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? love from pray Elizabeth Gilbert
5f9fbfc Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive. rain love Paulo Coelho
bc661d4 But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily beauty love inspirational Rick Riordan
f6d725a We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able. lies friendship love chances intstalove-done-right scarlet lunar-chronicles wolf protection Marissa Meyer
03f618f L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. true-love passion love Dante Alighieri
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