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They're in love. Fuck the war.
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
— E.E. Cummings
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.
— Colleen Hoover, November 9
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to build,a time to weep and a time to laugh,a time to mourn and a time to dance,a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,a time to embrace and a time to refrain,a time to search and a time to give up,a time to keep and a time to throw away,a time to tear and a time to mend,a time to be silent and a time to speak,a time to love and a time to hate,a time for war and a time for peace.(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)
— Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV
It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
You are my heart, my life, my entire existence." -Ash
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
— William S. Burroughs
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
— Andy Warhol
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
— Stefan Molyneux
A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement
— Jess C. Scott
I ask the impossible: love me forever.Love me when all desire is gone.Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.When the world in its entirety,and all that you hold sacred advise youagainst it: love me still more.When rage fills you and has no name: love me.When each step from your door to our job tires you--love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me.Love me when you're bored--when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last,or more pathetic, love me as you always have:not as admirer or judge, but withthe compassion you save for yourselfin your solitude.Love me as you relish your loneliness,the anticipation of your death,mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends.Love me as your most treasured childhood memory--and if there is none to recall--imagine one, place me there with you.Love me withered as you loved me new.Love me as if I were forever--and I, will make the impossiblea simple act,by loving you, loving you as I do
— Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible
Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked 
— Laurell K. Hamilton
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.
— Kiera Cass, The Elite
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
— Charles M. Schulz
And I've fallen.So hard.I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen.And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.Love is a heartless bastard.
— Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
— Johnny Depp
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.
— Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire
Choose your love. Love your choice.
— Thomas S. Monson
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
— Karl Lagerfeld
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Love is scary: it changes it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
— Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Love is a serious mental disease.
— Plato, Phaedrus
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
— Zayn Malik
Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…”Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death.To say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”.I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.
— Coco J. Ginger
some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
— Charles Bukowski, War All the Time
I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
— David Nicholls, One Day
Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
Don't go far off, not even for a day,because I don't know how to say it - a day is longand I will be waiting for you, as inan empty station when the trains areparked off somewhere else, asleep.Don't leave me, even for an hour, because thenthe little drops of anguish will all run together,the smoke that roams looking for a home will driftinto me, choking my lost heart.Oh, may your silhouette never dissolveon the beach, may your eyelids never flutterinto the empty distance. Don't LEAVE me fora second, my dearest, because in that moment you'llhave gone so far I'll wander mazilyover all the earth, asking, will youcome back? Will you leave me here, dying?
— Pablo Neruda
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
— Richard Rodgers, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me. He looked up at me through his dark fringe of lashes and smiled. The expression on his face melted me completely. I knew I had the goofiest grin plastered on my lips, and didn’t care. “There,” he said as he finished tying the laces on my left shoe. “Now you won’t fall.”Too late.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
— William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
— Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely
When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.
— Colleen Houck
My soul sees its equal in you.
— Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Love is being honest with yourself at all timesbeing honest with the other person at all timestelling, listening, respecting the truthand never pretendingLove is the source of reality
— Susan Polis Schutz
I can't set my hopes too high,'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.
— Demi Lovato
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart
— Elizabeth Chandler, Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best," I told him."I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?
— Ally Condie, First Day
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
— John Keats
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
— W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
— Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
— Lorrie Moore, Like Life
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool," she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
— John Lennon
Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
— Taylor Swift
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It's all right," said Wolf. "You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet's identity and give it to Levana's army.Scarlet stiffened, heat rushing into her cheeks. He certainly wasn't insinuating . . ."Aaaaw," squealed Iko. "Did Wolf just say that he loves Scarlet? That's so cute!"Scarlet cringed. "He did not--that wasn't--" She balled her fists against her sides. "Can we get back to these soldiers that are being rounded up, please?""Is she blushing? She sounds like she's blushing.""She's blushing," Thorne confirmed, shuffling the cards. "Actually, Wolf is also looking a little flustered--
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be
—  if it doesn't it never was
I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.
— Kiera Cass, The One
I will follow you to the ends of the world.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?”“It's a strange universe,” he murmured.“It's not fair,” I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find love–now, in this eleventh hour–and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too? Was it fair that Ian would suffer? He deserved happiness if anyone did. Itwasn't fair or right or even…sane. How could I do this to him?“I love you,” I whispered.“Don't say that like you're saying goodbye.”But I had to. “I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.” I worded it carefully, so that there would be no lie in my voice. “If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner.
— Stephenie Meyer, The Host
It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
— William Faulkner
I love you enough to never make you choose.
— Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together."I'm not glad," says Peeta. "I wish we had waited until the whole thing was done officially."This takes even Caesar aback. "Surely even a brief time is better than no time?"Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Peeta bitterly, "If it weren't for the baby.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
— Judy Garland
Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way
— Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor
I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
— John Keats
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
— John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
Who knows how to make love stay?1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
— Anatole France
Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me. I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic. The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it. It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't. I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me.Always, Your PeterP.S. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
— Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away
— Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.
— Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
— William Wilberforce
I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
— Nina LaCour, Hold Still
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...
— Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls
As your lover describes you, so you are.
— Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]
— Taylor Swift
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
— Virginia Woolf
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
— Marvin J. Ashton
At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
— Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, and they parted with leaves in their hair.Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.
— Tennessee Williams
Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
— Maya Angelou
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
— Bill Wilson
When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.
— Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
— Emmet Fox
I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.
— Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
— Susan Polis Schutz
In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?
— Gerard Way
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
— Toni Morrison, Jazz
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.
— Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
— Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World
Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
— Oscar Wilde
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.
— Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all?Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.
— Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward
The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.
— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift
Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins
When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life isirrevocably changed.
— J.M. Darhower, Sempre
So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here
— Deborah Cox
Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.
— Lauren Conrad
I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin
He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.
— Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
— Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this.This is everything.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
Even on my weakest daysI get a little bit stronger
— Sara Evans
Would he find her?Without question.Would he save her?Always.
— Lauren Kate, Torment
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
— Augustine of Hippo
I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.
— John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
You were you,and I was I;we were twobefore our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too.
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
— Joan Lunden, Wake-Up Calls
I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
— Ernest Hemingway
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
Love wins, love always wins.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
— Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
— Madonna
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around."What's that?" I asked."That I do still love you."With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.
— Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date.It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit.It just has to be.
— David Levithan
You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
— Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
— Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.Love, Dimitri
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.
— P.C. Cast
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
— Eckhart Tolle
Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.
— Nicholas Sparks
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of being and ideal grace.I love thee to the level of every day'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love thee freely, as men strive for right.I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
— David Nicholls, One Day
The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand. —should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of the fact that you will never read it. I have felt these words like a weight in my chest, until I find myself amazed that a heart can go on beating under such a burden. I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking. My love, you don't belong with a man like me. In the past I've done things you wouldn't approve of, and I've done them ten times over. I have led a life of immoderate sin. As it turns out, I'm just as immoderate in love. Worse, in fact. I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you. I want you under me. On your back. I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it. Your arms and legs around me. Your mouth, open for my kisses. I need too much of you. A lifetime of nights spent between your thighs wouldn't be enough. I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me. If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.And there it stopped.
— Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart