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To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.

Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

best-friends, heartbreak, love

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

hope, inspirational, love

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

love, romance

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love, madness

My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks, the-notebook

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

loss, love

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

love, relationships

And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

beatles, inspirational, live, love, music

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

inspirational, love

It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.

Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

life, love, relationships

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

love

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

Mother Teresa

inspirational, love

If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.

Greg Behrendt

busy, call, dating, dating-advice, faith, greg-behrendt, guys, he-s-not-just-into-you, love, marriage, romance, true

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

love

I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.""That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something."I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear."Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you."I laugh a little. "Then you should know better.""Fine," he says. "Then I love you.

Veronica Roth, Divergent

beatrice, divergent, humor, love, tobias

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

love

I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

love, romance

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

inspirational, love

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Maya Angelou

1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture, inspirational, love, trust

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe

being-loved, completion, inspirational, love, relationships

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

humbert-humbert, love

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

love

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version

faith, god, hope, love

My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours

Charles Bukowski

death, love

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.

Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

love

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

Shel Silverstein

friend, friendship, good-day, how-many, how-much, life, live-well, love

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

love

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Kahlil Gibran

life, love, romance

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

Lauren Oliver, Delirium

amor-deliria-nervosa, love

Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

beauty, love

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.

Nicholas Sparks

love

When love is not madness it is not love.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

love, romance

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

love

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Max Lucado

inspirational, love

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

clary-fray, jace-wayland, love

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

love, romance

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

love, romance

What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

humor, jace, love, mortal-instruments

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

Gillian Anderson

friendship, love, men, relationships, women

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

love

I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

cry, inspirational, joke, love, romance, smile

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

love, marriage

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Vincent van Gogh

art, inspiration, love, strength

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

love

There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. "I know, mate," said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, "so it's now or never, isn't it?" "Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?" Harry shouted. "D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?" "Yeah --- right --- sorry ---" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

love, romance, war

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

life, love

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

hippy, love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

love

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe

love

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

hate, love, religion, sin, sinners

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

happiness, love

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Bob Marley

bob-marley, compassion, destiny, heart, humanity, inspirational, love

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

love

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

love

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

death, heart, love

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Stephenie Meyer, The Host

inspirational, love

Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land

Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

forgetting, heartbreak, inspirational, living, love, moving-on

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

love

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

love, soul, stars

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

compassion, empathy, loneliness, love

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

fearless, inspirational, love

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

Scott Adams

food, humor, love

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley, Guitar Chord Songbook - Bob Marley

inspirational, love

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

love, poets, romance

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.

C. JoyBell C.

growing, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-lessons, love, people, real-love, reality, reality-of-life, those-who-love-us, to-be-loved, true-love, what-matters

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

love

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

love, sex

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

Edna St. Vincent Millay

longing, love, missing, sadness

And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.

Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

bestseller, love, nicholas-sparks, north-carolina, novel

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War

art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

humor, jealousy, love

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

acceptance, life, love, worth

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

hell, love, suffering

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

kissing, love, romance

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis

love

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

love, pain, relationships, self

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

life, love, music, simile, song

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

love

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

Coco Chanel

autonomy, bachelorhood, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, love, marriage, matrimony, men, self-determination, self-sufficiency, singles, strength, women

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin

love

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Paulo Coelho

love

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom

Look after my heart - I've left it with you.

Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

bella, edward, love, twilight-saga

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

death, love

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

food, love

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

love, obsession, sleep

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

hunger-games, katniss-everdeen, love, peeta-mellark, smile, suzanne-collins

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

heartbreak, love, sad

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

love

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou

courage, love, trust

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Milan Kundera

love

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

edward, light, love, reason

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne

love

How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh

A.A. Milne

love, piglet, pooh-bear, winnie-the-pooh

Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

love, sadness

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Pablo Neruda

love, poetry

Happiness [is] only real when shared

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage