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A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children | Markus Zusak, The Book Thief | children, love |
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence. | Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever | kiss, love |
Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good," I said. "That's what I want too. | Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms | infatuation, love |
Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real. | Lisa Schroeder | heartbreak, life, love |
I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need. | Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave | humor, love |
Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames. | Veronica Roth, Divergent | love |
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. | Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story | art, love, profound |
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. | Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning | acceptance, letting-go, love, moving-on |
As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin. | Pablo Neruda | beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion |
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them | Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island | friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth |
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. | A.A. Milne | goodbyes, love |
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. | Haruki Murakami | love |
I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. | Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince | devotion, love, love-at-first-sight, true-love |
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. | F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby | affection, amity, love |
When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them. | Jalaluddin Rumi | love |
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. | Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell | love |
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection | Sharon Salzberg | inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom |
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. | José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love | grief, grieving, hope, loss, love, pain, sadness, strength, tears |
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. | Nicholas Sparks, Dear John | life, love, passion |
She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on... | Markus Zusak, The Book Thief | love, the-book-thief |
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. | Nicholas Sparks | love, nicholas-sparks, relationships, the-choice |
You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.""I've been thinking about you, too.""I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself. | Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes | die, love, romance |
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. | Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 | alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect |
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince | caring, inspirational, love, roses, time |
I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me. | Veronica Roth, Allegiant | agency, choices, love |
In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that. | Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook | love |
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. | Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife | love |
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. | Orhan Pamuk, Snow | happiness, love |
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. | Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun | longing, love |
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. | David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas | books, love, reading |
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. | Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband | love |
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting. | Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever | life, love |
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. | Mary Oliver | box, darkness, gift, love |
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe. | Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me | beautiful, couples, kiss, love, metaphor, need, ya |
Who, being loved, is poor? | Oscar Wilde | love |
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. | Mitch Albom | love |
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that. | Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas | inspiration, love, story-people |
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. | Carl Sagan, Cosmos | humanity, individuality, love, mercy |
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't. | F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise | love, romance, romantic, sentimentality |
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. | C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair | hell, love, safe |
Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here. | Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire | catching-fire, katniss-and-peeta, katniss-everdeen, love, peeta-mellark, romance, the-hunger-games |
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan | life, love |
It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. | John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories | love |
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. | Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook | goodbye, inspiration, love |
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. | Lemony Snicket, Horseradish | babies, change, humor, love, parents |
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. | Arrigo Boito | love |
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. | Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club | love |
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 can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul! | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights | love |
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. | Nicholas Sparks, Dear John | love, separation |
What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst. | Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | adoration, infatuation, love |
I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands... | Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster | love |
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. | Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun | love |
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. | Elie Wiesel | deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing |
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love. | Sophocles | love, pain |
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. | Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath | dreams, infatuation, love, sensation, thoughts |
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. | Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina | love, respect |
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. | Eleanor Roosevelt | love |
I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. | Lauren Oliver, Delirium | give, love, sacrifice |
I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine. | Laurell K. Hamilton, A Lick of Frost | inspirational, love, relationships |
The more one judges, the less one loves. | Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage | human-nature, love |
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. | Blaise Pascal | heart, love, quip, reason |
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it... | Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight | at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks |
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. | Jonathan Safran Foer | desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude |
Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people. | Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems | beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks |
Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. | Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange | love |
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. | Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park | friendship, high-school, love, relationships, sweet, teenage-love |
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. | E.E. Cummings | decisions, love, stars, taking-chances |
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | books, learning, love, serenity |
If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. | Johnny Depp | humour, love |
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone. | Edgar Allan Poe | heartache, loss, love |
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us. | Julio Cortázar | love, poem, relationships, romance |
People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince | friendship, love, responsibility |
If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay. | Gayle Forman, If I Stay | infatuation, life, love, self-sacrifice |
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. | Charles M. Schulz | humor, love |
When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands." The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way." It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have." That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded. One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word." God," said the angel touching his sleeve gently, "Get some rest tomorrow...." I can't," said God, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower." The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed. But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure." Can it think?" Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model." It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear." What's it for?" It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride." You are a genius, " said the angel. Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there. | Erma Bombeck, When God Created Mothers | children, family, humor, love, mothers, mothers-day, sadness |
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times. | Mitch Albom, For One More Day | love |
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. | Kahlil Gibran | emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting |
Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you. | Lauren Conrad | crying, heartache, love, sadness, tears |
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. | François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims | love |
Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!” I yelled back.But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."Then I plunged the stake into his chest.It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one."That’s what I was supposed to say. . .” he gasped out.Those were his last words. | Richelle Mead, Blood Promise | blood, bridge, death, dhampir, dimitri, love, magic, promise, rose, stake, strigoi |
Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right. | Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo | crescendo, love, patch |
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. | Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | couples, deep, dissapointment, fate, heart, inspirational, love, people, romance |
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | love, sonnet |
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. | Albert Einstein | love |
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. | David Nicholls, One Day | hope, love |
to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you've held dearcrumbles like burnt paper in your hands,your throat filled with the silt of it.When grief sits with you, its tropical heatthickening the air, heavy as watermore fit for gills than lungs;when grief weights you like your own fleshonly more of it, an obesity of grief,you think, How can a body withstand this?Then you hold life like a facebetween your palms, a plain face,no charming smile, no violet eyes,and you say, yes, I will take youI will love you, again. | Ellen Bass | acceptance, hope, life, love |
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself. | Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle | grief, love |
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. | Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage | acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth |
I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for? | Stephanie Lennox, I Don't Remember You | fighting, funny, humour, husband, inspirational, love, lover, relationships, romance, spiritual, sweet, wife |
I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. | Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free | action, being-loved, inspirational, life, love, relationships |
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. | Jalaluddin Rumi | love |
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. | Victor Hugo, Les Misérables | attraction, love |
True love is usually the most inconvenient kind. | Kiera Cass, The Selection | inconvenient, love, relationship, true-love |
You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? | Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body | loss, love |
Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth. | Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems | intellect, love, poetry |
We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. | Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena | annabeth-chase, emotion, heartbreak, love, percy-jackson |
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? | Percy Bysshe Shelley | kiss, love, nature |
Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky. | null | life, love, sky, sun |
When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed. | Fred Rogers | friends, friendship, love, peace |
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balancedlife. | Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything | love |