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Breathless I look up at him and find him gazing at me with a wonder that my deep-seated insecurity finds hard to believe. Then he does this thing. His fingers start moving on my face, tracing outlines. They trail along my eyebrows, the ridge of my nose, the apple of my cheeks and the line of my jaw. His touch is like feather but his eyes…they blaze and just like that, without saying a single word, he makes me believe.
— Rucy Ban, All My Life
I'll always be here waiting for you," he said, touching my chest with his fingertips, drawing a shape of a heart.
— Karice Bolton, Lonely Souls
Because when I first saw you I thought─no, I knew─you were special. Because I still think that every time I look at you. Because I think you're smart and funny and brave. But most of all," he grins at me─ "because I like questions.
— Elizabeth Scott, Stealing Heaven
You are my ground and you are my rainbow. You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy. You are the start of my journeys and always my destination. You are my home - the place to which I always return.
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm giving you everything I have, Triss. I want to be yours, and I want you to be mine. No matter what storms lay ahead of us, I know that as one we can make it. I'm not perfect by anyone's standards but you make me want to strive to be the best person I can be." - Logan
— Karice Bolton, Lonely Souls
Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because within his breast could be heard the roaring of the sea. Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the eyes of all who are born at the seaside and forced to depart from it. Because his signs were sultry like the tidal breezes of full summer, fragrant with the smell of seaweed cast upon the shore.
— Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask
After a few seconds of scraping, I realize what he has isn’t a trail, it’s a whole forest! Ack! Weren’t all men supposed to shave their chest and stuff nowadays? Whatever happened to having fuzz-free Hollywood heroes as role models? At least my embarrassment is completely foregone by the irritation at his lack of upkeep. The only thing distracting me now is that heady mix of musk, shaving cream and a distinctly…male scent. And God knows that is one seriously jeopardizing distraction. Especially with a whizzing needle in one’s hand.
— Rucy Ban, All My Life
I want someone who loves me like I'm the end of the road.
— Lisa Reardon, Billy Dead
And talk about that fabulous chest. Mmm he must work out because that chest does wonders".
— Brit N. Lane, Broken Halo
Neil Mars?! I could blame him for having killer looks but he could not be faulted for this. He couldn’t have chosen that name for himself. No wonder he tortures his Mom by calling her by her name.
— Rucy Ban, All My Life
It is inevitable plunge into your lookwithout falling in love
— Leandro Goualrt
Okay," she said as he lit the candle and hummed the birthday song. "You know,this is all very Jake Ryan of you.""Who's Jake Ryan?""The hottie from Sixteen Candles—the best teenage movie ever made. The last scene looks just like this," she said, looking around the room."All right, well, don't you go wishing for him when you blow out the candle.""I love you,Jace. You're the only thing I want.
— Phoebe Lane, Cursive
Falling in love happens many times in our lives. I’m looking on the bright side— I might be one heartbreak away from happily ever after!— Penelope Jones
— Penelope  Jones, Iniquitous Solace: The Aftermath
Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..
— Georgina Grey, Franklin's Folly
I love coming back into Chersonesus in the afternoon; the city is lit up by the sun beginning to set. The sound of the water rushing past the hull, and the sky is as blue as Helena’s eyes.”“Did I hear a woman’s name?
— Destin Bays, True Love
I caught professer ryan or as I call him beautiful face looking back at me with desire in his eyes as if I had just been naked and fingering my sex.
— Brit N. Lane, Broken Halo
It’s not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy.
— Jonas Eriksson, Hollywood Ass.
Woah, their gorgeous not so fast I haven't even catched your name or your number" - Jaxson Evans
— Brit N. Lane, Broken Halo
If you want the world to be loving and peaceful , I'll give you my heart and soul. For the heart is a symbol of truth and caring
— -Jerrycel Verlinden
Right now I'll just be happy if you let me know what would you like to have in breakfast ." She swiftly moved from the platform to the fridge and took some bell peppers out of it. I spotted a bowl of boiled noodles. Perhaps, I would be fine with some change in my menu."some noodles will just be fine,a glass of orange juice." I put my glass in the sink and stepped back to have a better view of her amazing body. "and a bed full of you." I added. Oops, I think that was pretty shameless.-Abstruse.
— Scarlett Brukett
Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor.She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days."From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE
— Destin Bays
It was early spring, 326 BC, in the beautiful city of Chersonesus protected by a haunting deep blue sea and a giant wall. Today was the second day of the Festival of Dionysus.
— Destin Bays, True Love
We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much.
— Nicole Christie, Falling for the Ghost of You
The thing with love is, you cannot choose who you fall for. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person. Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there's no switch to turn off your heart.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
Put your mouth on mine, Little Raven. I’m ready for a taste of lemon cake,” he said in a deep and tumbling voice.“Maybe I’m not so sweet,” I whispered, wetting my lower lip with a sweep of my tongue.Logan’s eyes followed every movement, and he licked his lips in response. “I want your mouth… on my mouth. Do it, or else I’ll have to find something else to kiss.
— Dannika Dark, Gravity
Falling in love is not a spur of the moment thing. There wasn't love at first sight as I always believed there to be. It crept and overpowered me. Once I was in its power, it was the most amazing feeling in the world.
— Eveli Acosta, Love Rubi
Philip. I have never been outside of England. I've never even been to London. Do you know what I would give for your experiences? How could you possibly think you would bore me?" He didn't answer, but there was such a look of delight in his eyes that I had to ask, "Why are you looking at me like that?" "You called me Philip. For the first time.
— Julianne Donaldson
Maybe someday, I'd find someone who'd prove he really loved me. Someone who'd hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who'd never lie to me.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
I had never seen eyes like his. Dark green. Smoldering. Ready to undress a woman with a single glance.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
On the flat expanse of pancake ice, War stood by the Pale Rider’s side. Though their forms did not touch, their shadows intertwined, black on black, in a smoky caress.“Knew you’d come,” Death said cheerfully.She smiled, and that slow motion of her lips hinted at many things. “The White Rider divided, and the world on the brink of destruction. How could I stay away?”“I could set my watch by you.”“You don’t have a watch.” Her smile broadened into a grin. “An hourglass, maybe . . .”“Please, not another joke about a scythe . . .”She mimed zipping her mouth shut.A pause, as they listened to the sounds of the boy healing and the man summoning doom.“I like him,” War said.Even though she hadn’t specified whether she meant the boy or the man, Death smiled and nodded. “Me too.”“You like everyone.”“Well, yes.”The two shared a quiet laugh, their voices mingling in perfect harmony.A longer pause, and then War asked, “What of Famine?”“What of her? She’s not mine. Not yet, anyway. She will be soon enough.”The Red Rider slid him a look. “That’s cold, even for you.”“Eh, just practical.” A shrug. “Everyone comes to me eventually. It’s the journey that makes it interesting.”“Such a people person!”He flashed her a grin. “My best quality.”“Oh,” said War, sliding her gloved hand into his pale one, “I can think of others that are better.
— Jackie Morse Kessler, Loss
It took me years to get over you. Truth is, I never did fully get over you. I just learned to live without you. I can't ever do that again. It almost killed me. And as much as I would love to kiss you right now, I have to protect myself. It can't happen. I'm sorry.
— Rachel Hanna, The One for Me: Kyle & Jenna
You’re mad,” he said in a low voice, “if you think I would leave you now. I’ll see you safe and well no matter what it takes.
— Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise
There are definite advantages to single beds.""Makes cuddling mandatory.
— Cindy Gerard, To the Brink
He lowered his head, his mouth on her neck. “You’re all I think about. I can’t breathe without you in my head, my body, everywhere. Even when I close my eyes, you’re there...” Sera arched her neck and moaned, feeling as if every inch of her skin was begging to be touched by those lips. Unable to stand it any longer, she found his mouth and pushed herself against him, wanting to devour him and, in turn, be devoured by him. She was falling, falling, falling...
— Ava Zavora, Rosethorn
Mira Levenson. Aged twelve. Looks, long dark shiny hair, dark brown eyes (almost black), brown skin. Beautiful. Favorite colour, copper orange, I think. Personality, clever, bright, serious, shy, funny without realizing it, holds back her thoughts, mystery girl, arty. What I've noticed: she's stronger than she thinks she is; she doesn't speak much ay school. What I know: she's got a loud laugh (when she lets it out). Her best friend is Millie Lockhart. She doesn't need Millie as much as she thinks she does. Her grandmother is dying and she loves her. She started talking in Pat Print's class. I know she doesn't know how much I think of her, how much I miss her if she's not around. What I think she thinks about me is that I'm a bit of a joker, but I'm deadly serious.Deer...apple...green...sea...See you on Friday!LoveJidé
— Sita Brahmachari, Artichoke Hearts
His breathing was heavy, and full of life. He shivered still, his hand finding Katty unsteady and unprepared of what was going to come next. “I hurt you!” Nico said, his voice raised with worry. “No, not at all, honey, my sweetest Master, but you have me, all of me, the wholeness of me and my darkness.” “You play with the devil dear.” Nico sombered. “No.” Katty defiantly said. “You took my blood and it made me your slave, yet I love every minute of it.”“Tell me you love me Katty.” He said, nearing her closer than close, mending the space between them with the threads of courage. “Tell me you have no fear, nor no weakness against me. Or no shame in loving me.”“I fear you not, my love.” Katty sincerely committed. “I fear only that you will be taken away by the hands of the vampire hunter, and only then, will I fall.
— Keira D. Skye
They still had sexual relations with another, slept in the same bed, shared kisses and intimacy and matrimonial fluid, however both were not married to each other in that sense, although there was a piece of paper that said otherwise.
— Keira D. Skye
Twas hard to dislike a man she so enjoyed in bed. Twas harder still to dislike one who kept showing her a more gentle side to his nature
— Johanna Lindsey, Prisoner of My Desire
i was going to kick my ass if i hurt her in a dream
— Kelly Elliott
Say it again,” he says.“That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again.He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.
— Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry
When I touch you, I’m touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I’m kissing you because you have the most incredible mouth I’ve ever seen and you know I can’t not kiss it. And when I make love to you—I’m doing exactly that. I’m making love to you because I’m in love with you... I’m touching you because I’m in love with you and for no other reason.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.”I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?”His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful.
— Philippa Gregory, The White Queen
Why do you want me?" I asked, suppressing the trembling of my voice. "I’m strange, definitely not perfect, and fucked up. Actually, a lot of the latter.”“Perfect is boring and overrated.” He smiled that lopsided grin of his that made my lower abdomen twist and curl with delicious desire. “I’m looking for sexy, fun, kind, and honest. And you tick all the right boxes, Brooke.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
I'd let him get under my skin, and now he had started to occupy my every thought.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Today i want to talk to you, and you don't have time. Tomorrow you would desperately want to talk to me and I won't be around
— Kunal Bhardwaj, Love Was Never Mine
No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's still right between us, always.
— Caragh M. O'Brien, Prized
Do you love me, Rain?""More than I knew it was possible to love. All the stars will fall from the heavens before I ever stop.
— C.L. Wilson
Wine?" I asked, ready to order."I’d rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin.
— J.C. Reed, Surrender Your Love
We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His armstightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as Ilive.
— Iris Johansen, The Ugly Duckling
A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought.
— Diane Grifith
You are my star and you have made me see,” he tells her, “and I am the air beneath your wings, never rending, never ending.
— Nenia Campbell, Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
There was a war between them, between love and the right thing to do, and it kept assaulting them, kept keeping them apart.
— Keira D. Skye
You know, Savannah, if you cry, I won’t tell anyone,’ Ken said quietly. ‘I promise.
— Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control
And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth.
— Keira D. Skye
Julia Kline, you’ve spent your whole life running and all you’ve done is run farther away from the love that’s been waiting for you all along. The first time you smiled at me with your two missing teeth you had my undivided attention. When you laugh, I want to laugh with you. When you cry, I want to be the one to hold you. When you said you loved me, you highjacked my heart forever. They say that love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Your happiness is what I will spend the rest of my life striving to give you. I love you so much. Will you do the honor of marrying me?
— Sophie Monroe
Yes, I have a romantic nature; it is a character flaw which should be viewed with pity, not derision.
— Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness
I can wait in silence no longer, but I’m afraid I’m already too late. I am trapped between agony and hope—believing I have no right to speak, but knowing more how much I’d regret it if I did not. Tell me I’m not wrong. Tell me that, this time, you will accept my offer. Because I’m making it again. I want you with me, Elliot. It’s all I have ever wanted. I offer you everything I have—my world, my ship, my self—perhaps they will be enough to replace what I know you would be giving up if you came with me.
— Diana Peterfreund, For Darkness Shows the Stars
I like you, Dawn. I've seen a lot of humans, from far away and up close. I've never met one like you. I think you're the closest thing to a sunrise I'll ever see.
— J.A. London, Darkness Before Dawn
Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water.What was she thinking? She didn't take a rope or a life vest or anything. But at the moment, she was just so happy that she paddled over to Leo and kissed him on the cheek, which kind of surprised him."Miss me?" Leo laughed.Piper was suddenly furious. "Where were you? How are you guys alive?" "Long story," he said. A picnic basket bobbed to the surface next to him. "Want a brownie?
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
I've fallen in love with you," he whispered to kiss the top of my hand.
— Anna Carey, Once
I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.
— Katy Perry
It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.
— Nora Roberts, The Perfect Hope
His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars – are you gettin’ all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett?” He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
You really think love needs to have a future?”“Absolutely.”“Good,” Lily said. “So do I.”“Good,” I echoed, leaning in. “So do you.”“Don’t repeat what I say,” she told me, swatting at my arm.“Don’t repeat what I say,” I murmured, smiling.“You’re being silly,” she said, but the silliness was falling out of her voice.“You’re being silly,” I assured her.“Lily is the greatest girl who ever was.”I drew closer. “Lily is the greatest girl who ever was.”For a moment, I think we’d forgotten where we were.And then the officers returned, and we were reminded once again.
— David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?”“Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled.
— Maya Banks, Shades of Gray
...Gabrielle and Elaine seemed to hit it off by talking books — something trending about a very young billionaire and his obsession with an even younger woman...and sex. Lots of erotic sex scenes in the book like apparently on every page...Who has time? Why even read about sex in a book when you can have it instead? I don't get that. And billionaires in their twenties? I mentally shook my head and pretended to care. I'm such a bastard.
— Raine Miller
The feel of her body against his was exhilarating, driving all rational thought from his head. “All right, prepareyourself, Claire Brennan.”She looked up at him curiously. “Prepare myself forwhat?”He gazed at her affectionately. “Repeat your mantra, orwhatever it is you do. Because I’m about to kiss you.
— Syrie James, Forbidden
Which is your bad shoulder?"His brows knit together. "The left," he said carefully.She slugged him in the right.He staggered. Steadied himself. Grinned. "Is that like some weird Wyoming mating ritual thing I should know about?""Damn you," she cried, flying into his arms. Finally. "Damn you, damn you, damn you!"He wrapped his arms around her, held her tight. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I was such a coward.
— Cindy Gerard, Show No Mercy
Just give me a bit, let me pretend you're still alive," Andrei said hoarsely. "Let me pretend that I don't have to give you up.""Andrei," Warm, calloused hands cupped Anrei's face. "Look at me. I'm real. I'm still with you. A part of me will always be with you. Even after I go through that doorway.
— Marguerite Labbe, Ghosts in the Wind
I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.
— Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
Well, then, he ought to write her a letter. He ought to say: 'This is to tell you that I propose to live with you as soon as this show is over. You will be prepared immediately on cessation of active hostilities to put yourself at my disposal; please. Signed, Xtopher Tietjens, Acting O.C. 9th Glams. A proper military communication.
— Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
You remember?' he said incredulously. 'What could you possibly remember?' he asked, staring at her, waiting for the answer.The beauty from within her soul shined brightly through her loving eyes as she looked deep into Noah’s now melting eyes.'I remember — I love you,' she said in a soft voice, nervously biting her lip.
— Sebastian Cole, Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love
Much more. We're joined at the heart.""Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky.""Too much boozing."His eyes twinkled, and he drew me close. "Not enough kissling.
— Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and now there's no escape
— Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping
You know it feels good. I can hardly geta…I don’t even…”There was something amusing about watching him trying to form a coherent sen-tence. Amusing, but arousing at the sametime.
— Charlotte Stein, Sheltered
We are staring at each other, forgetting about the harsh reality and I can feel my heart reacting. He touches my cheek and the familiar electric current runs through me. His hands are warm, caressing my pale skin. His deep-blue eyes are filled with serenity and passion. I keep telling myself to breathe, but I am unable to exhale the air from my lungs. Then he leans forward and his lips touch mine, increasing the temperature in my body. He kisses me gently, trying to break his way through, testing to see if I let him in. His lips are sweet and warm. A few seconds later it is all over and he disappears once again, leaving me uncontrollably awake and trying to gather my wild thoughts.
— Joanna Mazurkiewicz, The Whispers of the Sprite
Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.
— Rebecca Carson, Mysterious Vortex
Is it possible for g.r to put the g.r page back into my computer because I lost the data.
— Vincent  Collins, No Points
I saw that he was looking anxious.'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my hand. And if the sight of him had not quite restored the magic, the touch of him most certainly did. 'You're not wishing yourself some place else, Mary?
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
May I collect you, Rini?—” he said, softly pulling our lips apart. “As mine?
— R.J. Gonzales, Mundahlia
I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're here...The tricky thing about us, the hopeless romantic, is when we fall in love with someone, when we say hello—and it’s magical—we never imagine that hello can turn into a goodbye. And when we kiss someone—and it’s magical—we never ever imagine that it can turn into a last kiss.
— Taylor Swift
The lesson learned: never take your loved ones for granted. And if you're ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes you love more than any other person could possible make you love, you treat every day together as if it were your last. You cherish every moment.
— Sebastian Cole, Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love
The place of happiness you can return to is in the arms of the one you love.
— Yuki Yoshihara, Butterflies, Flowers, Vol. 2
I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you?
— Ryohgo Narita, バッカーノ！1710 Crack Flag
Yeah, I must have been really bad in a past life or something." He smiled, his eyes still in pain. Reaching up, he touched a strand of mt hair. " Don't leave, OK?""Shhh. I'm not going anywhere." I kept stroking his forehead, trailing my fingers across it. His muscular shoulders gradually relaxed, his eyes closing again. His breathing slowed, became more regular.I could hear the TV on in the other room, the sound of voices. None of it mattered to me. I stayed there until long after Alex had fallen asleep-- gently caressing the vbrow of the boy I loved, trying to keep his pain at bay.
— L.A. Weatherly
She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?
— Nora Roberts, Vision in White
As Robin thought about what he had just said, Noah got up from the chair and knelt down in front of her. 'How about I give you three reasons? Morning, day, and night.'She narrowed her eyes.'Stay… so every morning when I open my eyes, you’ll be the first thing I see. Stay… so every day when I’m with you, I can show you all over again exactly how much you mean to me. And stay… so every night when you lay your head down next to mine, you’ll know… you’ll know just how much you’re loved.'Her eyes drifted to the water as she thought for a moment, returning to look deep into Noah’s eyes.'Okay, Noah… I’ll stay.
— Sebastian Cole, Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love
Lord above, was there a better sight than a woman flush with passion, her skin dewy and pink, her breasts bouncing from the force of his thrusts?
— Kristen Callihan, Moonglow
Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.
— Gabrielle Zevin, All These Things I've Done
I hate you for making me want you so much.(Edward)
— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
I love the way you make me feel like I'm a completed person. I love the way I want to take care of you. When I'm with you I feel that I've come home - home in a way everyone imagines home should be.
— Juduth Krantz
I tried to curl around him, holding him with my arching body. His mouth was slow and searching, the kisses hard at first, then loosening as if unraveling from their own heat. The pleasure thickened, hard flushes rising through me, bringing the desire to full-slip ripeness.
— Lisa Kleypas
If he could bottle her strengthand vitality, he would. He would take everything thatwas Tessa and lock it into a corner of his heart, to takeout when the emptiness got too overwhelming.
— Taryn Elliott, Ashes and Wine
Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees—he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I'll take my chances. It has you."And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.
— Laura Castoro, Icing on the Cake
... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Winter reaches its peaknot when a great wind screamsfrom the top of its lungs, but when a lazy breeze whispers from the bottom of its heart
— shivaraj konanavar
Dreams last so long, even after you're gone
— Jewel
Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
— Augusten Burroughs
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
— Abraham Lincoln
...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
— Edith Lovejoy Pierce
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
— Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. 
— Boris Pasternak
All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!
— Richard Branson
Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.
— Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here
It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
— Mary Oliver
It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
— Thomas A. Edison
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.
— Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.”“Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
— Herbert Hoover
I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.
— Oprah Winfrey
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?
— Lorena Bathey, Beatrice Munson
Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.
— Belle de Jour, The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
— George S. Clason
We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.
— Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.
— Roy H. Williams
During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
— Winston S. Churchill
Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
— Julie Andrews Edwards
I take the opportunity each day offers.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.
— Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
— Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible not to have imagined that rejected future, a life of many countries, of vast and enduring adventure, of tiny rooms and rental houses. It was the sense of missed opportunity that returned to her, frightening but real, overwhelmingly real.
— Michael Stein, In the Age of Love
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
— Doris Lessing
As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.
— Jay Abraham, The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times
The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)
— Robin R. Meyers, Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
— Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
Opportunity knocks only once.
— Abah Mohd Khairul Anuar
We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.
— Mira Grant, Blackout
By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are.
— John B. Arden, Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life
For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured. If Phillip was with her, the solitude she needed would be shattered, and along with it whatever wondrous thing might have come her way if she had been alone.
— Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead
He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
— Van Jones
The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.
— Tina Sequeira, SOUL SOJOURN
We need to ask ourselves if we are passive spectators in life as we watch it simply go by or are we ready to grab the bull by its horns and join in the action.
— Tina Sequeira, SOUL SOJOURN
Pause and remember: It is through our deepest trials and life hardships that we are given the greatest opportunity to find the person we have been looking for our whole life - our authentic beautiful self.
— Jenni Young
Opportunity to help others is the opportunity to help yourself in disguise
— Mayur Ramgir, Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership
Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity.
— Ari Herstand (https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-local-bands-6884395)
Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Act! Do something now. Some chances never come again. Seize the moment. Seize the day! Live to the fullest. Live to YOUR fullest potential.
— Akiroq Brost
You must look through an opportunity and not at it
— Mayur Ramgir, Evolve Like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership
Opportunities are visible to those who are looking for them.
— Mayur Ramgir
Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.
— Krista Ritchie, Infini
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
— Isaac Disraeli
Sometimes one needs to stay alone, a bit of loneliness gives you the opportunity to knock on the door to your brain, and it opens with a sudden bright idea. But those who never stay alone don't even know what's inside their brains.
— Elijah Onyenmeriogu
You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.
— Glenn Jones, Introduction to Intelligence Analysis - work in progress
If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.
— Stewart Stafford
Opportunities are taken or created, never given.
— Mike Klepper
The period of time between eligibility to vote and the start of adulthood is a window of opportunity that the liberals are willing to exploit to their advantage.
— Mike Klepper
It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
— Thomas F. Woodlock
When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.
— John Wooden
Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.
— Jeffrey Fry
Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.
— Jeffrey Fry
Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.
— Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story
Nobody gets through life without facing challenges. What's important is how we handle them. Tough times can be excellent opportunities to grow and become a better person.
— Sandra Vischer, Unliving the Dream
Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest.
— Ulysses Brave, The Wit and Wisdom of Cats and Kittens
Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.
— Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
Some look at your strength and see an opportunity and some look at your weaknesses and see an opportunity .
— irrfan ishaq
Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Opportunities don't happen, you create them
— Chris Grosser
The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.
— Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday
The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.
— Alan Cohen
The fire in some people is burning and taking them places. Others have their fire dying slowly because their passion is dwindling. For some, the drive that kept them going is lost, and thus, has extinguished that fire that was once ablaze; they are now waiting for the next opportunity to ignite the fire in them one more time.Others are also at the point where the fire which was once in them has been totally quenched by a heavy rain rendering the source of fuel at their disposal void such that rekindling it becomes impossible.Remember, you are the problem and you are the solution to that problem whichever category you find yourself. Don't look anywhere else for answers as you are the answer to your problems. You ought to start to take steps to get back to the ladder where your flames of success will begin to rekindle. It's possible if only you believe.
— Oscar Bimpong
Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.
— Jeffrey Fry
Every opportunity worth pursuing comes with a price tag. Either sweat or sacrifice. Sometimes both.
— Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne
It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
earn what you can since everything's for sale
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Death reminds us that life is a temporary privilege, not an endless right.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Your big opportunity may be right where you are.
— Napoleon Hill
Every new breath and day is on opportunity to do something,a gift of life to make a difference in the world.
— K.J. Kilton
Christ’s Atonement provides more than an opportunity to live a happy life later
—  it promises and provides for a remarkable life now.
Every time you shift a blame on what you could have taken responsibility for, you deny yourself an opportunity to learn and grow.
— Gugu Mona
When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which opens for us.- Alexander Graham Bell
— Bryan Curtis, Classic Wisdom for the Good Life
The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it.
— Eyden I.
You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Deep within every crisis is an opportunity for something beautiful.
— Kate McGahan
We tend to see what we are looking for.
— Toni Sorenson
Opportunity always knocks the door with hurdles. It's up to you either jump the hurdle to grab or owing to hurdle miss the opportunity .
— Akansh Malik
To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go wit
— Susan Sarandon
She was haunted by the possibility that she had missed her chance for happiness. But she had not missed her chance, she told herself, for her chance would not let her get away so easily. Each morning she was fortified by hope: the future loomed.
— Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist
Successful innovators are..not risk-focused
—  they are opportunity focused.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
— Benjamin F. Fairless
It is not easy to let go, but when you do; not only do you realize the strength that lies within you, you also create an opportunity to see God perform the best of miracles in your life
— Gugu Mona
Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
I can say opportunity is the time, if you have it, you can get anything
— Abdulsalam Unshur
Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.
— Robert D. Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
i'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!
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That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and conditions of work and full opportunity for development? It is these things that foster invention and discovery.
— J.R.D. Tata
In your journey of life, stick to relevance, don’t stay stuck! Keep improving yourself until your opportunity comes.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
There are books stacked high around them - the way opportunity and possibility are stacked around them.
— Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
Don't sit with your back to any doors.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Master of human destinies am I.Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait,Cities and fields I walk; I penetrateDeserts and seas remote, and, passing byHovel, and mart, and palace, soon or lateI knock unbidden, once at every gate!If sleeping, wake -- if feasting, rise beforeI turn away. It is the hour of fate,And they who follow me reach every stateMortals desire, and conquer every foeSave death; but to those who doubt or hesitate,Condemned to failure, penury, and woe,Seek me in vain and uselessly implore--I answer not; and I return no more.
— John James Ingalls, A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls; Essays, Addresses, and Orations
You ought to explore, search and seek the unlimited possibilities in life
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.
— Jack Sparrow
Remember, every obstacle is also an opportunity.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, The Happy Lady
Fifth and finally, do nothing impulsively. Give God an opportunity to speak. Until He does, stall for time and concentrate on the first four approaches.
— James C. Dobson
When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of; if a man is alone he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker.
— Homer