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8fdb974 "He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, "I see you. I see every part of you. And I am not afraid." . A line in the burning brightness. ." love pg418 rowan-whitethorn Sarah J. Maas
de12e65 Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil. love monsters vampires Christopher Pike
efb0087 Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3 beauty break hate inspirational love make tyra-banks Tyra Banks
385dd18 I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then--how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal. A denial heralded the thrice crowing of a cock, and an insincerity was like the kiss of Judas. The adult mind can lie with untroubled conscience and a gay composure, but in those days even a small deception scoured the tongue, lashing one against the stake itself. love youth Daphne du Maurier
70f5b46 The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. freedom global-oneness inspirational life love meditation miracles-of-life nonduality-yoga oneness oneness-with-life unity unity-consciousness yoga Amit Ray
ffa2afa "Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change." in-death love roarke romance J.D. Robb
22bad56 There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence? god love Marilynne Robinson
68e15a2 "Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love." brett count fall-in-love jake love never Ernest Hemingway
a18e09d Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. inspirational love Karl Menninger
2fdc285 "I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most." ~ Hardy Cates" liberty-jones love sugar-daddy Lisa Kleypas
6ad9594 In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos] immensity joy love marriage science space time true-love vastness wife Carl Sagan
dbc3ebd Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? love motivational self-empowerment self-esteem self-realization spiritual truth inspirational Marianne Williamson
3523de1 In definitiv, cu cat vei ridica un zid mai inalt in jurul tau cu atat va fi mai bun cel care-l va sari. inspirational love Tudor Chiril?
f6546cd "the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter." bitterness bukowski death in-the-end individuality life love personality poem poetry self soul Charles Bukowski
8f2c04e She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared. hermione-granger love romance J.K. Rowling
b66737d Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior. love Christopher Paolini
5d2a4e4 You forgot to call,' he says. I throw open my arms. He pulls me into them, and we kiss, and his lips are cold, and I think he's crying, and I'm definitely crying, and I pull back to say, 'I am so in love with you, Joshua Wasserstein. Of course I'll wait for you. joshua-wasserstein love Stephanie Perkins
627966b "Your place is with me," Jem said. "It always will be." "What do you mean?" He flushed, the color dark against his pale skin. "I mean," he said, "Tessa Gray, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" Tessa sat bolt upright. "Jem!" They stared at each other for a moment. At last he said, trying for lightness, though his voice cracked, "That was not a no, I suppose, though neither was it a yes." "You can't mean it." "I do mean it." "You can't--I'm not a Shadowhunter. They'll expel you from the Clave--" He took a step closer to her, his eyes eager. "You may not be precisely a Shadowhunter. But you are not a mundane either, nor provably a Downworlder. Your situation is unique, so I do not know what the Clave will do. But they cannot forbid something that is not forbidden by the Law. They will have to take your--our--individual case into consideration, and that could take months. In the meantime they cannot prevent our engagement." "You are serious." Her mouth was dry. "Jem, such a kindness on your part is indeed incredible. It does you credit. But I cannot let you sacrifice jem-carstairs love marriage tessa-gray Cassandra Clare
4cae966 Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you. julian-blackthorn love Cassandra Clare
796d6a4 We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. acceptance-of-oneself awareness fear inspiration inspirational love power self-acceptance self-awareness self-love surrender trust vulnerability Eric Micha'el Leventhal
27e9e44 "I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you." -Kev to Win" kev love obsession win Lisa Kleypas
8d276bf He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty. levin love Leo Tolstoy
4308a53 Love, too, has to be learned. love Friedrich Nietzsche
62e32ac When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call being 'in love.' Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from another person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other--only now there doesn't seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other's energy their way. love James Redfield
cea11c5 "Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents," he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleepingroom. "And everybody would have the memories." "You know the memories," he whispered, turning toward the crib. Garbriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing barefoot on a damp lawn. "Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love," Jonas whispered." -- gabriel love Lois Lowry
3e154f0 Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you. love Haruki Murakami
309a916 "Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom." " constancy love poetic romantic William Shakespeare
5054090 "Clary shut her eyes. You didn't say no to an angel, no matter what it had in mind. Her heart pounding, she sat floating in the darkness behind her eyelids, resolutely trying not to think of Jace. But his face appear against the blank screen of her closed eyelids anyway - not smiling at her but looking sidelong, and she could see the scar at his temple, the uneven curl at the corner of his mouth, and the silver line on his throat where Simon had bitten him - all the marks and flaws and imperfections that made up the person she loved most in the world. Jace. A bright light lit her vision to scarlet, and she fell back against the sand, wondering if she was going to pass out - or maybe she was dying - but she didn't want to die, not now that she could see Jace's face so clearly in front of her. She could almost hear his voice, too, saying her name, the way he'd whispered it at Renwick's, over and over again. Clary. Clary. Clary. "Clary," Jace said. "Open your eyes." love Cassandra Clare
4d1aff5 "Once there was a boy," said Jace. Clary interrupted immediately. "A Shadowhunter boy?" "Of course." For a moment a bleak amusement colored his voice. Then it was gone. "When the boy was six years old, his father gave him a falcon to train. Falcons are raptors - killing birds, his father told him, the Shadowhunters of the sky. "The falcon didn't like the boy, and the boy didn't like it, either. Its sharp beak made him nervous, and its bright eyes always seemed to be watching him. It would slash at him with beak and talons when he came near: For weeks his wrists and hands were always bleeding. He didn't know it, but his father had selected a falcon that had lived in the wild for over a year, and thus was nearly impossible to tame. But the boy tried, because his father told him to make the falcon obedient, and he wanted to please his father. "He stayed with the falcon constantly, keeping it awake by talking to it and even playing music to it, because a tired bird was meant to be easier to tame. He learned the equipment: the jesses, the hood, the brail, the leash that bound the bird to his wrist. He was meant to keep the falcon blind, but he couldn't bring himself to do it - instead he tried to sit where the bird could see him as he touched and stroked its wings, willing it to trust him. Hee fed it from his hand, and at first it would not eat. Later it ate so savagely that its beak cut the skin of his palm. But the boy was glad, because it was progress, and because he wanted the bird to know him, even if the bird had to consume his blood to make that happen. "He began to see that the falcon was beautiful, that its slim wings were built for the speed of flight, that it was strong and swift, fierce and gentle. When it dived to the ground, it moved like likght. When it learned to circle and come to his wrist, he neary shouted with delight Sometimes the bird would hope to his shoulder and put its beak in his hair. He knew his falcon loved him, and when he was certain it was not just tamed but perfectly tamed, he went to his father and showed him what he had done, expecting him to be proud. "Instead his father took the bird, now tame and trusting, in his hands and broke its neck. 'I told you to make it obedient,' his father said, and dropped the falcon's lifeless body to the ground. 'Instead, you taught it to love you. Falcons are not meant to be loving pets: They are fierce and wild, savage and cruel. This bird was not tamed; it was broken.' "Later, when his father left him, the boy cried over his pet, until eventually his father sent a servant to take the body of the bird away and bury it. The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed." destroyed falcon inspirational jace love science Cassandra Clare
9e86e4d Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them. humor love tattoos Laurie Notaro
251db6e The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. love men-and-women reasons Fulton J. Sheen
bb01ce7 He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him. love Lisa See
9dcce7f "You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him." destiny emily love love-story lovers soulmate soulmates space teddy-kent L.M. Montgomery
c3b1645 "I'll be your family now." ~ Tobis 'Four" four-tobias insurgent love tris Veronica Roth
b221f30 Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear. inspirational love truth wisdom L.J. Smith
22f1131 My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and here's how I can tell: because I did not demand that he become my Great Emancipator or my Source of All Life, nor did I immediately vanish into that man's chest cavity like a twisted, unrecognizable, parasitical homonculus. During our long period of courtship, I remained intact within my own personality, and I allowed myself to meet (him) for who he was. infatuation love Elizabeth Gilbert
7f03409 I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn't even feel it. And yet I believe you'll be sensible of a little gap. But you'd clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this --But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don't love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it. life love Vita Sackville-West
3f17b19 All I think of ever is that I love you. gloria love sweet think you F. Scott Fitzgerald
99a495e Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. life love thelema inspirational Augustine of Hippo
86ed420 The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that. god love selflessness C.S. Lewis
482d4d5 But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. gay life love platonic-love relationships romance David Levithan
c3975fe [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii) life love place self-awareness self-knowledge yourself Sarah Ban Breathnach
7cf2624 "He murmured her name, tenderly taking her face in his hands. "I love you," he said, his voice low and fervent. "I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be." "I love you with my past, and I love you for my future." He bent forward and kissed her, once, softly, on the lips. "I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more, for every one of your smiles." colin love penelope romance Julia Quinn
66fec3c Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them. god happy love selfish selfishness William Nicholson
ce82ad4 Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable. inspirational love relationships Steve Maraboli
7d5077a I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater. compassion compliments inspirational love motivational resolution Steve Maraboli
e62477c He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why. love marguerite-duras the-lover Marguerite Duras
b039b71 Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? life love Yann Martel
041024b "I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella." bdb bella j-r-ward love zsadist J.R. Ward
c7285e3 "What kind of motel sells condoms?" "My favorite kind of motel?" love lux sex Jennifer L. Armentrout
0705104 You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness. love E.M. Forster
2113acc Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day love Stephanie Perkins
42c2cd6 In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15). dark high joy kingsolver life love rebirth taught tide times tucson Barbara Kingsolver
45f7c91 No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. christmas endurance inspirational labor love persistence practice resilience Greg Kincaid
020e015 "Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise." love marriage relationships Gary Chapman
bb352df Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray. espionage love John le Carré
0358a63 If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. drama empty fiction filled jodi-picoult love mystery novel okay plain-truth say speak tell truth Jodi Picoult
579ac1b "Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me." "Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful." care hope love Rick Riordan
b3bebf2 Hades allowed himself the faintest smile, but there was nothing cruel in his eyes. 'I can entertain the possibility that you acted for multiple reasons. My point is this: you and I rose to the aid of Olympus because you convinced me to let go of my anger. I would encourage you to do likewise. My children are so rarely happy. I ... I would like to see you be an exception.' Nico stared at his father. He didn't know what to do with that statement. He could accept many unreal things - hordes of ghosts, magical labyrinths, travel through shadows, chapels made of bones. But tender words from the Lord of the Underworld? No. That made no sense. hades love nico-di-angelo Rick Riordan
e052083 "For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you... I have no name." identity jamie-fraser love Diana Gabaldon
c899864 "If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait." -- love outlander Diana Gabaldon
07ef8f3 I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here. love passion Graham Greene
3084db8 What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? love romance thoughts Anne Brontë
a261e4a She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure. inspirational love loving relationships Steve Maraboli
1ca5604 We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know? love John Green
129b160 Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments. longing love Haruki Murakami
81442e2 I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else. city-of-fallen-angels jordan-kyle love screwed-up simon-lewis Cassandra Clare
5e141e5 and love is a word used too much and much too soon. classic classics i-love-you love patience poem poetry Charles Bukowski
6807140 What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly death finn finnickin inspirational isaboe love Melina Marchetta
d335e65 It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had. inspirational love romantic hope Cassandra Clare
9d6e736 Love is a dangerous angel. danger love Francesca Lia Block
1ac81c6 I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers death gratitude inspirational life love oliver-sacks thinking Oliver Sacks
6ff3924 My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes love lovers psychiatry psychoanalysis psychology romance Sigmund Freud
8dbfa9b Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade love Jacqueline Carey
7006c5e We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive. life love inspirational John Eldredge
6143258 Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. love suicide women W. Somerset Maugham
89f0e77 He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her dreams were his dreams, and her blood was his blood, and when her heart stopped he knew that his would too, and he would be glad, because he wouldn't want to live one second in a world that didn't have her in it. julian-blackthorn lady-midnight love Cassandra Clare
e43f8d0 Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt. humour love Kay Redfield Jamison
e043ee7 She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe. love Linda Howard
1de8d1c With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead. There would come a day, in fact, years later, when [she] would no longer bewail his loss. Or not as relentlessly; not nearly. There would come a day when the details of his face would begin to slip from memory's grip, when overhearing a mother on the street call after her child by [his] name would no longer cut her adrift. She would not miss him as she did now, when the ache of his absence was her unremitting companion--like the phantom pain of an amputee. love Khaled Hosseini
5ec1cc2 The library smells like old books -- a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks. inspirational love Laura Whitcomb
675513f But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better. love parenting Betty Smith
f3fd8f5 I have loved you for years. I have been in love with you for years and years and years ... throughout school and training ... before transitions and afterward ... when you approached me and yes, even now that you're with Saxton and you hate me. And that ... shit ... in my fucking head locked me down, locked everything down ... and it cost me you. love qhuay qhuinn J.R. Ward
f850fdf Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it. love modern-man quickly time waste-time Erich Fromm
b23bd5e When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...] fake kiss love staring time Simone Elkeles
8e44b73 He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them. love men relationships women Julian Barnes
9956751 People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it was populated, and before there were wars and jobs and colleges and movies and clothes and opinions and foreign travel -- before all of these things there had been only one person, Zora, and only one place: a tent in the living room made from chairs and bed-sheets. After a few years, Levi arrived; space was made for him; it was as if he had always been. Looking at them both now, Jerome found himself in their finger joints and neat conch ears, in their long legs and wild curls. He heard himself in their partial lisps caused by puffy tongues vibrating against slightly noticeable buckteeth. He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away. love siblings Zadie Smith
911253a There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course. love royal-family Meg Cabot
9d03607 "Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying." flying goliath love scott-westerfeld Scott Westerfeld
d920bca Here's what I think. We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find. companionship friendship julia love David Levithan
2b095db Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. inspirational love Jodi Picoult
e275c30 I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it. ideas letters love wise Cornel West
aa71a28 I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either. love unrequited-love Donald Miller
204bd64 You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters. love Nicholas Sparks
3db534b You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it was a teacher or a coach or a friend or a friend's parents. You sought those tiny droplets of love, basking in them when you found them. They sustained you. For all these years, you've lived under the illusion that somehow, you made it because you were tough enough to overpower the abuse, the hatred, the hard knocks of life. But really you made it because love is so powerful that tiny little doses of it are enough to overcome the pain of the worst things life can dish out. Toughness was a faulty coping mechanism you devised to get by. But, in reality, it has been your ability to never give up, to keep seeking love, and your resourcefulness to make that love last long enough to sustain you. That is what has gotten you by. bpd childhood-trauma inspirational love mental-illness Rachel Reiland
1abac33 You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield love Julia Quinn
86b39dd Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again. disappointment fear-of-commitment love relationships risks the-time-of-my-life Cecelia Ahern
a218512 ...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going. energy life love persistence survival Kevin Brockmeier
1558be1 she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. inspirational love poetry Christopher Poindexter
b38933f You have no idea how strong my love is! elizabeth-gilbert love pray Elizabeth Gilbert
43bb406 Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. inspirational life love quotes swedish-proverb Swedish Proverb
083d173 Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time actors girls inspirational love singers talent Justin Bieber
644f1d2 Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand. inspirational life love Santosh Kalwar
9ee5e62 I must court her now,' said the Prince. 'Leave us alone for a minute.' He rode the white expertly down the hill. Buttercup had never seen such a giant beast. Or such a rider. 'I am your Prince and you will marry me,' Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, 'I am your servant and I refuse.' 'I am your Prince and you cannot refuse.' 'I am your loyal servant and I just did.' 'Refusal means death.' 'Kill me then.' 'I am your Prince and I'm not that bad -- how could you rather be dead than married to me?' 'Because,' Buttercup said, 'marriage involves love, and that is not a pastime at which I excel. I tried once, and it went badly, and I am sworn never to love another.' 'Love?' said Prince Humperdinck. 'Who mentioned love? Not me, I can tell you. Look: there must always be a male heir to the throne of Florin. That's me. Once my father dies, there won't be an heir, just a king. That's me again. When that happens, I'll marry and have children until there is a son. So you can either marry me and be the richest and most powerful woman in a thousand miles and give turkeys away at Christmas and provide me a son, or you can die in terrible pain in the very near future. Make up your own mind.' 'I'll never love you.' 'I wouldn't want it if I had it.' 'Then by all means let us marry. love marriage William Goldman
5176896 I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one. historical-romance love realization you-and-me-babe Julie Garwood
a86fc24 As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. beauty beauty-and-the-beast love reasoning trust Robin McKinley
73890b5 And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended. love Stephen King
2b67fe4 Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me. love Nicholas Sparks
2d400db This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder love romance Jodi Picoult
07db2f5 We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far. love Holly Black
cb03685 Life is sufferin god humility inspirational love suffering true Jordan B. Peterson
7b46e9c If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh) love Nora Roberts
ba10e10 If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me. keep love Lisa Kleypas
ef5cf66 I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. gratitude inspirational life love oliver-sacks thinking Oliver Sacks
3b0cf47 God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver. beautiful-disaster broken depressed love sacrifice sad Cassandra Clare
9e5e426 Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. happiness happy-life hope inspirational life love Immanuel Kant
5ad953d "Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured. "Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back." birthday kiss love magnus malec Cassandra Clare
912fae7 Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.'' Manuscript Found In Accra - Paulo Coelho defeat denial doubt god helplessness honour humiliation life love scar valiant victory Paulo Coelho
98b19b7 "Do you see, Harry? Do you see the flaw in my brilliant plan now? I had fallen into the trap I had foreseen, that I had told myself I could avoid, that I must avoid." "I don't --" "I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act. "Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have -- and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined -- not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands." devotion love sacrifice J.K. Rowling
13c62c4 Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. love Susan Cain
2b9a24f The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. love redemption soulmates Lisa Kleypas
112bf18 "I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said. I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face. I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back." love Meg Cabot
2c6af25 I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you. love missing Harper Lee
083ed05 "You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said promptly. "Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love." And the greatest of these is love," I finished. "That's from the Bible." First Corinthians, chapter thirteen," Thomas confirmed. "I paraphrased. Father makes all of us memorize that passage. Like when parents put those green yucky-face stickers on the poisonous cleaning products under the kitchen sink." humor love thomas-raith Jim Butcher
17d61bf "There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated." expectations gender honesty independence influence integrity love marriage matrimony propriety respect self-determination self-respect uprightness women Charlotte Brontë
e421a33 You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! Love and Love and Love Again, Stargirl. love stargirl Jerry Spinelli
c40b043 Whoever debases others is debasing himself. love racism James Baldwin
db807e3 I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving. change inspirational life life-lessons love relationship Deb Caletti
564e17c "I don't think that I've been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch for brave men died and empires rose and fell For love, girls follow boys to foreign lands and men have followed women into hell In plays and poems someone understands there's something makes us more than blood and bone and more than biological demands For me love's like the wind, unseen, unknown I see the trees are bending where it's been I know that it leaves wreckage where it's blown I really don't know what "I love you" means I think it means "don't leave me here alone" love poem poetry sonnet Neil Gaiman
fcfa4d3 "A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call it though the language is full of suggestions in the way of language but they are all anonymous and it's almost your birthday music next to my bones these nights we hear the horses running in the rain it stops and the moon comes out and we are still here the leaks in the roof go on dripping after the rain has passed smell of ginger flowers slips through the dark house down near the sea the slow heart of the beacon flashes the long way to you is still tied to me but it brought me to you I keep wanting to give you what is already yours it is the morning of the mornings together breath of summer oh my found one love W.S. Merwin
5b4d5e2 " Cupid said. "Great," Jason said. "Now he's spouting greeting card messages." eros heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace love percy-jackson rick-riordan Rick Riordan
f525161 Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. love rebellion truth Kahlil Gibran
aecb7ed I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies. city-of-heavenly-fire epilogue jem-carstairs love page-718 parabatai the-beauty-of-a-thousand-stars the-mortal-instruments Cassandra Clare
1f37d7b "Promise me you'll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know." Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. "Yes," she whispered back. "I promise." And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day." end love shane-collins Rachel Caine
777a417 Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She felt like that now, felt like hollering his name and hollering him home, and her heart turned sick with the thought of the years ahead and she wondered what good love was if it came to this, to even ten seconds of feeling like this. love Stephen King
9f1d6a9 Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. commitment love perseverance Hanif Kureishi
6886bc6 It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood childhood inspirational love mister-rogers-neighborhood television Fred Rogers
b264888 You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint--ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn't just the women. It's the great male fantasy--all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know--this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don't want a very long courtship. They want to know immediately. love Rachel Cohn
3e3560c Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love. emma-watson inspirational love pretending Emma Watson
de01274 Were knowledge all, what were our nee inspirational love philosophical poetry Christopher Brennan
5ff2f01 [...] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness. love suffering Albert Camus
95bb5f7 Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love. courage inspirational love Paulo Coelho
e8d20b6 "God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial nerves, the repeated incipient suffocation as the body droops, the repeated torture of back and arms as it is time after time, for breath's sake, hitched up. If I may dare the biological image, God is a "host" who deliberately creates His own parasites; causes us to be that we may exploit and "take advantage of" Him. Herein is love. This is the diagram of Love Himself, the inventor of all loves." -- christ cross god love C.S. Lewis
9c91a71 I'm the last one in the dark, until- suddenly- it happens. St. Clair removes something from his pocket. And then he gets down on one knee. Anna's entire body lights with shock and joy and love. She nods a vigorous yes. St. Clair places the ring on her finger. He stands, she throws her arms around him, and they kiss. He spins her in a circle. They kiss again. Deep, hungry, long. And then he turns to us and waves- with the biggest smile I've ever seen- clearly aware that we've been standing here the whole time. love st-clair Stephanie Perkins
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