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A red veil covers the room as walls, which flow but do not stand. Screams echo from every stone. Incense I smell of sandalwood and lavender, and lavender I taste as well. A tea, a brew, or a liquid I sip. Calm I feel. Gyfu shows a great sacrifice will be made. I feel tied in knots as light reflects from crystals found in rock. All is not what it seems. Choices are made, the white handled bolline swings, the steps slide, gates swing open, memories flow like rain—betrayal and it is done. --A quote by Gannon reciting his vision
— Wynter Wilkins, Strigoi
Now, I can understand why the appearance of a man struggling violently, as it would seem, with an airy nothing, and calling for assistance against a vision, should have appeared ludicrous. Then, so great was my rage against the mocking crowd that had I the power I would have stricken them dead where they stood.
— Fitz-James O'Brien
If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Vision without Mission is Lame
— Mission without Vision is Blind.
purpose of life give away to vision, vision creates dream, and dreams become reality.
— charley sweeney
Youths are our arrows to the future.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details….
— Jeff Bezos
You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.
— Richard  Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.
— Amjad Khan
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there.
— Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse of
The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
From just one spark we can create one fire. And from one fire we can create one light. From that one light, we create vision and that vision is how we share just one spark. Inspire all those around you.
— Josh Blatter
I had no choice but to accept these voices and images as my gift. My ability. Their energy engrossed my music. I played passionately for them. To set them free. They were part of my life now. I didn't chose them, they chose me."...Elizabeth (DESCENDANT– chapter 2)
— L.J. Amodeo
Visions and words go together only when inspirations connects them!
— Rossana Condoleo
As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We fight for a vision of the world that is both traditional and Faustian, that allies enrootment and disinstallation, the citizen’s freedom and imperial service to the community-as-a-people, passionate creativity and critical reason, an unshakeable loyalty and an adventurous curiosity (WWF 267)
— Guillaume Faye, Why We Fight
Be Visionary ...
— R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)
To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.
— Orrin Woodward
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.
— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
— Helen Keller
When you are quite well enough to travel, Latimer, I shall take you home with me. The journey will amuse you and do you good, for I shall go through the Tyrol and Austria, and you will see many new places. Our neighbours, the Filmores, are come; Alfred will join us at Basle, and we shall all go together to Vienna, and back by Prague...'My father was called away before he had finished his sentence, and he left my mind resting on the word Prague with a strange sense that a new and wondrous scene was breaking upon me: a city under the broad sunshine, that seemed to me as if it were summer sunshine of a long-past century arrested in its course-unrefreshed for ages by dews of night, or the rushing rain-cloud; scorching the dusty, weary, time-eaten grandeur of a people doomed to live on in the stale repetition of memories, like deposed and superannuated kings in their regal gold inwoven tatters. The city looked so thirsty that the broad river seemed to me a sheet of metal; and the blackened statues, as I passed under their blank gaze, along the unending bridge, with their ancient garments and their saintly crowns, seemed to me the real inhabitants and owners of this place, while the busy, trivial men and women, hurrying to and fro, were a swarm of ephemeral visitants infesting it for a day. It is such grim, stony beings as these, I thought, who are the fathers of ancient faded children, in those tanned time-fretted dwellings that crowd the steep before me; who pay their court in the worn and crumbling pomp of the palace which stretches its monotonous length on the height; who worship wearily in the stifling air of the churches, urged by no fear or hope, but compelled by their doom to be ever old and undying, to live on in the rigidity of habit, as they live on in perpetual midday, without the repose of night or the new birth of morning.A stunning clang of metal suddenly thrilled through me, and I became conscious of the objects in my room again: one of the fire-irons had fallen as Pierre opened the door to bring me my draught. My heart was palpitating violently, and I begged Pierre to leave my draught beside me; I would take it presently. ("The Lifted Veil")
— George Eliot, The Lifted Veil
Love is blind but boundless in vision.
— Emmanuel Aghado
Sight is seeing with the eyes
—  vision is seeing with the mind.
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
— Bill Hybels, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.
— Franco Santoro
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.
— Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, "You do not sleep?"She shivered. "No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep too much already. It is so cold, where Quincy sends me in my sleep. Deep into the house, farther in, not into the house we see. It is as if that house were a face, and when you see a face you can't see the brain or the thoughts of the person behind it. And it is so strange - the house inside the house."********"How is it strange - this that you call the house inside the house?"She said vaguely, her eyes growing glassy, "Strange. Shapes change, and sizes. The rooms are different: bigger and blacker and longer and the shadows are full of things. Creatures - or sometimes the rooms get smaller, fewer, and the furnishings change and change, like the scenes in a kaleidoscope, and I see the people in the portraits walking about in them.
— Evangeline Walton, Witch House
In this day and age, there is a special mandate for every one of us to be in-charge of our lives by sitting at the driver's seat of our lives. Rule your world!
— Ifeanyi C.O. Obiakor
Hitherto I had been convinced that my friend wanted to become an artist, a painter, or perhaps an architect. Now this was no longer the case. Now he aspired to something higher, which I could not yet fully grasp. It rather surprised me, as I thought that the vocation of the artist was for him the highest, most desirable goal. But now he was talking of a mandate which, one day, he would receive from the people, to lead them out of servitude to the heights of freedom.It was an unknown youth who spoke to me in that strange hour. He spoke of a special mission which one day would be entrusted to him, and I, his only listener, could hardly understand what he meant. Many years had to pass before I realized the significance of this enraptured hour for my friend.
— August Kubizek, The Young Hitler I Knew
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed
— Jodi Picoult
true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
— John Green
I wish I knew how to quit you.
— Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
— Henry Rollins
True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
— Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With
I don't balance you like you need.""What the hell does that mean?" he exclaimed.My heart ached for him, and I was so sorry for what I'd done...but this was the truth of it all. "The fact that you have to ask says it all. When you find that person...you'll know.
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does
— Torquato Tasso
If there's one thing I hate, it's not knowing what's wrong with someone and all you want to do is make them feel better.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
— Robert Browning
turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
I've felt basically lucky ever since, almost every day of my life. That's something else love should make you feel. It should make you fell fortunate.It will be made clear to you in a stray gesture, the line of a throat. Something in the hands. There may or may not be any music playing. But there will be a certain velocity of the spirit, a sensation of dropping through clear space unimpeded, and you think, This is the one. I found you.
— Suzanne Finnamore, The Zygote Chronicles
My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.
— Mette Ivie Harrison, Tris & Izzie
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
— Bram Stoker, Dracula
Without sacrifice, true love is incomprehensible.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.
— Mike Dooley
I think, that you can meet someone one day, who possesses the eyes you never had but always needed; the vision to see backwards and forwards and all around, the other wing that you need to complete your flight. And I think it can just happen, suddenly, without explanation! And then I think, it would be good to keep that person, you'll always have those eyes, and always have two wings.
— C. JoyBell C.
Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.
— Emily Maguire, Taming the Beast
They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can't help smiling, knowing that you've completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul is to be killed, in an act of true love, by the one who loves me most..
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.
— Faraaz Kazi
I don’t think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.’‘Maybe you’re right. Maybe with true love, you see and you love anyway…
— Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
— Albert Camus
I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.
— Cameron Dokey, The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords.""Only for you.
— Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true”.
— Amit Abraham
I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.
— Faraaz Kazi
True love is tested when betrayed.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage until he finds you.
— Alex Flinn, A Kiss in Time
Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.
— Lurlene McDaniel, Don't Die, My Love
The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart.
— C. JoyBell C.
Isabella." He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. A shock ran through my body at his casual touch. "Bella, I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me." He looked down, ashamed again. "The thought of you, still, white, cold . . . to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses . . . it would be unendurable." he lifted his glorious, agonized eyes to mine. "You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.
— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
Fuck," he said, sliding his hands down to my thighs. "You're making this very hard to be the good guy you said I was last night.""I'm not drunk."He pressed his forehead to mine, chuckling softly. "Yeah, I can see that and while the idea of taking you right now, against the wall, is enough to make me lose control, I want you to know that I'm serious. You're not a hook up. You're not a friend with benefits. You're more than that to me."I closed my eyes, breathing heavily. "Well, that was...really sort of perfect.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wait for You
I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
True love doesn't demand..It only loves.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?
— Nancy Werlin, Impossible
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Rahul had wondered how someone could love their beloved so much that their dedication to them became one of the wonders of the world.
— Faraaz Kazi
True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.
— Alex Flinn, A Kiss in Time
His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness...
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Allyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her - infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust - no longer hold water, because she remembers so viscerally and feels it anew. It's not any of that. It's not even him. Or all him. It's her. The way she can be with him.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Night
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.
— Kamila Shamsie
It was the first time! Just because there weren’t fireworks the first time doesn’t mean there will never be fireworks. We’re human; we’re adults; we teach each other; we communicate; fireworks don’t just go off, wham-bang; fireworks evolve!’Awestruck by the utter, asinine nonsense of this metaphor, everyone is still. Into the stillness, the ample woman drops the word ‘Wrong.’ Then she says it again. ‘Wrong…I’m talking about science…Pheromones.’ The woman turns to Cornelia. ‘The chemicals in his body call out. The chemicals in your body answer. It either happens or it doesn’t.’On top of being dumb, Cornelia is dumbfounded.
— Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In
Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?
— Julie   Johnson, Erasing Faith
True love doesn't grow on you, feed on you, drain you and spoil your heart. It nourishes, waters the soul and intensifies in absenses long and short.
— C. Nzingha Smith, Lust Have Recipes, Aphrodisiac Cookbook
What is life," he asked the maiden, "without love? I would ratherhave this one night with you than another thousand years.
— Michele Bardsley, Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.
— Judith Viorst
True Love is a spiritual force that binds two hearts, and two souls, together as one.
— Ellen J. Barrier
True Love is not a reality TV show!
— E. Grey Lorimer
Jasmine believes in a prophecy that says she is destined to love a man named Josh Toby. Okay, fine. He could believe that. Hell, he had friends who believed carbohydrates were the work of the devil. True love made sense at least. 
— Diana Holquist, Sexiest Man Alive
We did the usual beauty, grace, anti-dirt spell, voice of a songbird, the works…it is never that kind of beauty that we gift. It is a spell. You are the most beautiful woman in the world to your true love. To everyone else, well… that’s up to nature. But, you are decently pretty. I don’t know why you are complaining.
— T.T. Escurel, The House of Rose
It hadn't ever been on the table. Commitment had never been an option. There was never any love.
— H. Raven Rose, Caffè Latte
God I'm crazy about him.""It's early yet for crazy isn't it?""Don't you know when you know? Five minutes, five years - how does that change what you know? I wanted to know with the man I was with before. I tried to know. I liked him, and I was comfortable with him. I told myself, 'Give it more time', but time didn't change anything. Not for either of us as it turned out.
— Nora Roberts, Dark Witch
I’d do anything for her if she really wanted me to. I would even walk away from the chance of a lifetime if she asked me to... and I could even be happy about it.
— Mirella Muffarotto, Soccer Sweetheart
I will be making my own choices in life. I know you say you want the best for us, but the best isn't whether or not we are able to afford clothing that suits our position. The best is when you find someone you love, who loves you back, and you decide you want to spend your lives together.
— Megan Frampton, Lady Be Bad
The measure of love is to love without measure.
— attributed to Saint Augustine
St. Vincent and I didn't expect to fall in love. It caught us both unaware.""Yes, but how did you know?""It was the moment I realized he was willing to die for me. I don't think anyone, including St. Vincent, believed he was capable of self-sacrifice. It taught me that you can assume you know a person quite well- but that person can s-surprise you. Everything seemed to change from one moment to the next- suddenly he became the most important thing in the world to me.
— Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
Dearest," she murmured, "as you know, there was a time when it didn't matter to me whether I married a man I loved or not... it seemed enough just to get my family out of the desperate situation we were in. But when I thought about what it would be like to share a bed with my husband... to spend the rest of my life with him... I knew Simon was the only choice." She paused, and sudden tears glittered her eyes. Beautiful, self-possessed Annabelle, who hardly ever cried. "When I'm ill," she continued in a husky voice, "when I'm afraid, when I need something, I know he will move heaven and earth to make everything all right. I trust him with every fiber of my being. And when I see the child we created, the two of us mingled forever in her... my God, how grateful I am that I married Simon.
— Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
Stepping back, he went to his bedside table. He returned carrying something. Opening his palm, he revealed the heart-shaped pendant he'd given her so many months ago."I've kept this," he explained. "You might say it's become a talisman of sorts. I... I carry it everywhere. But I'm going to give it to you again, if you'll take it. Whether you decide ever to wear it or not is up to you.""Jack," she murmured, as she let him press the jewelry into her hand.
— Tracy Anne Warren, Seduced By His Touch
I was empty... [and Aidan] gave me hope ... gave me back myself. ... [He] filled me. He reminded me of what it was like to feel passionate about what I did, who I was with. ... [He] showed me what it was like to love someone the way he did, with his whole self, holding nothing back.
— Emily Colin, The Memory Thief
You're a strong woman, Annabelle. Stronger than I would have believed.""No, it's my love for you that is strong.
— Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them-- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.
— C. JoyBell C.
The best about cats is they love cannot feign...
— Will Advise
You know that it's a spiritual connection when you look in someone's eyes, and instead of seeing them you start seeing yourself. This then creates a magnetic overpowering connection that you just cannot resist.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
True love is hard to find." - Malcolm Fade
— Cassandra Clare
Oh Love, whenever I hear your name, I hear the heartbeat of every lifetime all at once. I feel the heartbeat of the universe the way I get extreme earthquake shocks but completely safe
— Nicola An, The Universe at Heartbeat
A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live in it, there's no safer place in the world than its beating.
— Nicola An, The Universe at Heartbeat
I have grown to understand this about life: true life is just one and whoever misses it never sees the true life; great and true chance in life comes just once in a lifetime and anyone who misses it always seek for chances that are not all that the true one, except the one God can provide; true God is one and any person who serves two doesn’t really know how to truly serve the true one; true love in the heart is just one and anyone who has two shall only have a conflict with the true one; true understanding is just one and anyone who has two is not far away from misunderstanding; what is truly genuine is always the genuine one and anything else is just the opposite of the genuine one; true meaning of life is one and anyone who misses it shall never live a life that truly means life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Worldly love is limited. Divine love is infinite.
— Auliq Ice
I’m not beautiful. My mother—”“I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions of yours, but I don’t see it your way.”“That’s because you didn’t know her.”“Could your mother have led tiger back into its cage?”“Maybe not that, but she was very good with men. They’d do anything for her.”“This man will do anything for you.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel
True love is a fairy tale, which can be transformed into reality by rewriting each chapter by hearing the whispers of each other’s heart, by believing in those whispers and absorbing the aches that lie within.
— Balroop Singh
True love is a mirage… it does exist. We do get enamored and infatuated by it but we have to keep following it till eternity.
— Balroop Singh
You are enough, you are worth it, Worth every ballad, worth every word, every action.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
I will show you all the ways in which you are easy to love.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
To find true love simply one must just adore.
— Will Advise
This is insane. You realize that, right?” “Only if someone gets hurt.” “Someone always gets hurt, Hayes.” He said nothing as he slid his fingers in between mine, squeezing my hand. The intimacy of the gesture threw me. I had not held a man’s hand since Daniel’s, and Hayes’s felt foreign. Large, smooth, capable; the coolness of an unexpected ring.I shifted in my skirt, legs sticking to the leather cushion. I needed to get out of there, and yet I did not want it to end.
— Robinne Lee, The Idea of You
She loved everything around, turquoise blue sky and calm sea, and the holy mountain, and fragrant woods on it, and monasteries and hermitages, and herbs, and flowers, and monks and pilgrims, and children. And him? She asked herself and almost said “yes” inwardly...
— Osyp Nazaruk, Roxelana
It is very difficult for a man to allow his heart to walk around outside of his body. He wants to protect it at every moment.
— Alyssa Drake, An Imperfect Engagement
ROMEO: I love you. RIMMEL: Romeo...ROMEO: I love your glasses, your clumsiness, your wild hair, even the way you snort when you laugh. (He smiled) I love you in spite of yourself, Rim. Can't you love me in spite of myself?
— Cambria Hebert, #Nerd
And on the endless dusty ribbon of the highway, on sunken roads vaulted over by branches, on paths between stands of grain that rose to his knees, the sun on his shoulders and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the night's bliss, his spirit at peace and his flesh content, he would ride on his way ruminating his happiness, like someone who keeps savoring, hours later, the fragrance of the truffles he has eaten for dinner.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Sometimes there are people in this world that you meet. Most of these people remain just that, passing acquaintances that further down the line you will struggle to remember their names, let alone picture their faces and it all fades into a distant past almost like a dissolving aspirin. Some acquaintances become friends, but again these come and go with only a few remaining consistent. However, occasionally you will meet someone that changes who you are and who you will become.
— Emily  Williams, Letters to Eloise
Never Fall In Love !! Just Rise In Love !!
— Arshdeep Singh Samrala
Sometimes you may have not even talked to that person, just seen them at a distance, but inside something has ignited. It may be curiosity, to be able to understand the thoughts in that person’s head, their views on the world and how they can make you feel as a person.
— Emily  Williams, Letters to Eloise
Dear Cake,You're AWESOME. That is all
— Sonya Watson
In your life, you have only one friend. who full filly yours all dream and He/She everything do for you and stay with you always and one bigger think is he/she all do for yours smile without any selfiness
— Arshdeep Singh Samrala
My captive. My wife. My entire world.I will love her to the end of time, and I will never, ever let her go.
— Anna Zaires, Hold Me
God send a one person for you, never miss the chance , who make you queen and do-did everything for your smile without any selfiness....
— Arshdeep Singh Samrala
It became evident, that in Paris, only one man could fulfil Heloise’s educational needs, Peter (or as the French called him, Pierre) Abelard, a thirty-seven year old philosopher and teacher
— Emily  Williams, Letters to Eloise
There is no need to live in darkness.
— Waleed Barakat
Man and wife, realist and dreamer ... n truth they were more than one flesh, they had formed and sustained each other, they had ONE STORY between them and it wasn't at all easy for me or my brother to inhabit it.
— Lorna Sage, Bad Blood
I love you, Risa," he says. "Every last part of me.
— Neal Shusterman, UnDivided
DURANTE: They are eighteen year olds in half centenarians’ bodies.
— Billy London
I know you have baggage, I know you're going to be a pain in my ass, but I love you more that I ever dreamed possible.
— J.M. Madden, Embattled Hearts
POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.
— Bijou Hunter, Train Wreck
Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?” I asked him.“What?” said Dash.“True love.
— Rachel Cohn, The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily
True love doesn’t always last,” I say. “It doesn’t always have to be for a lifetime.” “Right. And that doesn’t mean it’s not true love,” Jesse says. It was real. And now it’s over. And that’s OK. “I am who I am because I loved you once,” he says. “I am who I am because I loved you once, too,” I say. And then we say good-bye.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves
If you have to ask yourself if it's love, it's not.
— Kate McGahan
The grip of her eyes is so hard that he can barely breathe. She entices him to crash into her and explore her depths. But he is already soaked in different waters.
— Faraaz Kazi, More Than Just Friends
I had a lot of "maybes" in the love arena but this time I don't know why do I pray fervently that God will make you "Right" just for me. For true love is full of Hope, will not close its doors for its Beloved just because of his flaws. After all, we are born imperfect but can be perfected by Real Love." - Author/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo
— Elizabeth E. Castillo
Today was the introduction, and introductions were important. The girl had to meet the boy in an equal setting – if they met any other way there’d always be a question about whether it was True Love or a more financially motivated desire that awakened the passions.
— F.D.  Lee, The Fairy's Tale
MY DEAREST MY EVER CRUSH I couldn’t have wished anything moreThan that the spaces between my fingers Were filled with yoursAs I strolled and sample the best of NYC todayI wish that every wish become real, and all dreams trueBecause in my dreams I am always with youOur friends both envy us and rejoice for usWe are ever madly in love and think less of who caresI can’t wait to see you againTrue Love
— Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow
If you love someone very trulyyou will start seeing other women's/men's just like other women's/men's
— Jaiendra Puri
Never block that person who is always available for you all the time. Never block him because you may not know what he has done for you. It is the biggest mistake you do in your life
— Arshdeep Singh Samrala
Wherever she went, he went, and almost without exception, she chose the direction that promised the most peril. Darius shook his head, and the corners of his mouth curved upward. If nothing else, at least she was consistent.
— Christine Grey, Whisper
If you truly love someone, then love them right in the places they feel most unsure and most vulnerable.And that';s how you help them love themselves.
— Wordions
True love is healthy, respectful, and nurturing, whether it's for ourselves or for another person. It's positive, uplifting, constructive, and healing to those in our sphere of influence, including the person we look at in the mirror every single morning—ourselves.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
I would rip the stars from the sky if you wished it. Anything for you. But remember to trust me. Remember your promise.
— Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen
In every laugh, he hears her, in every tear, he sees her. Not a mere reflection, the complete 'her'.
— Faraaz Kazi, More Than Just Friends
True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.
— John Carter Cash, House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father, Johnny Cash
So tel me, Mr. Science Journalist, do you still doubt the existence of miracles?""I just told you. You're my miracle.
— Nicholas Sparks, True Believer
Love doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be true.
— Moosa Rahat
She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.
— Michelle Tea, Valencia
Never believe you have a Spouse or a Friend until problems come.
— Auliq-Ice
He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.
— Fatima Bhutto, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
His body was sweet and clean smelling. As she finished [massaging his dislocated shoulder], Fay bent and gently kissed him on the neck, that part where the skin is so soft abd sensitive, midway between the angle of the jaw and the hair line at the back of the neck. He opened his eyes, startled, then smiled as he murmured, "Oh! It's you. That's all right." He folded his arms about her, bringing her head close to his, then like a contented child sank into a deep sleep. His clean body odor gave her keenest delight. She hesitated to attempt to alter their relationship, and possibly lose him entirely. He had accepted her as a pal, that she would be.
— Robert Scully
My son's mother, the girl I fell in love with when I was ten, died five years ago. I expect to join her soon, at least in that. Tomorrow. Or the next day. Of that I am convinced. I thought it would be strange to live in the world without her in it. And yet. I'd gotten used to living with her memory a long time ago. Only at the very end did I see her again. I snuck into her room in the hospital and sat with her every day.
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Elias and Laia are each other’s countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note.
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night
And he glanced down at Mercy beside him, and saw in her face such radiant goodness, such a calm certainty, that it seemed to him that if he could only be with her all his life, he should know a love, and happiness, and peace that he had never known before.
— Edward Rutherfurd, New York
I feel like real love should take time, or at least, more time than this. I've been trying to make my head rule my actions, when my heart has so obviously taken over, but I feel how I feel, and I know it's not going away.
— R.K. Lilley, Grounded
True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other's core identity. Embarking on such a relationship is frightening precisely because we feel there is no place to hide. We are known. All the ecstasy that we feel emerges as this love nurtures us and challenges us to grow and transform.
— bell hooks
Riley said. “Two women being in love, isn’t that an abomination?”“True love in any form is always encouraged,” Priest said.She looked at Riley. “You’re in love with her?”Riley said, “Yeah. Head over heels.”Priest smiled. “I’m happy to hear it. You deserve some happiness.
— Geonn Cannon, Riley Parra Season One
When you graduate from "Being In Love" to "Loving Someone" you understand - Love is not about owning, Love is about wanting the best for them, It's about seeing or Helping them achieve great heights, with or without you. Love is not what you say, it's what you do.
— Wordions
Its not a matter of giving you a chance. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me. I don't want you to be tied to me, to my hospital appointments, to the restrictions on my life. I don't want you to miss out on the things someone else could give you.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
When we get married, we promise a person the rest of our lives, "Til death do us part". But what if in another life we promised someone forever? What if ten lifetimes ago we promised someone lifetime after lifetime after lifetime? Think about it. Maybe that's why marriages fail when they do fail. Because maybe promises are never really broken.
— C. JoyBell C.
What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
He felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against him, magically, by a simple touching of flanks, of shoulders and of feet, making an alliance against death with him.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
True love is a word found by a madman to make the people who believe in it go mad.
— Luffina Lourduraj
Olaf was a genius. This, she realized, watching the snowman struggle, was love. Olaf had been willing to put himself in danger because he didn't want to see her get hurt. Love wasn't the canned romantic declarations. That was nothing but fluff. That was what Hans had thrown at her and what she had mistaken for love. Pure, true love was what Olaf was showing her right now - sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Rudnick, A Frozen Heart
You hold in your hands my heart, my soul, and my very being. You are already the Queen of my heart, my love, my true love, my only love.”- Kian, Frost Kisses
— Kailin Gow, Frost Kisses
Kat didn’t get it when it came to the whole Thanksgiving thing. She didn’t think she belonged or was a part of us. She had no idea that she was beginning to mean more to me than…Well, than anyone else that was going to be here on Thanksgiving. And that was dangerous. Potentially stupid. Risky. Also exhilarating.Thrilling.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx
I always made people laugh until they cry.But I always cried when I miss you till I die.
— Ak
I know who I am when I'm wi' Sam. When I wake up in his arms, I'm so at peace I don't wantae get out of bed. He makes me laugh until I cry, he always cares for me, no matter that I'm a maudlin, moody control freak. I look at him, and fer the first time in my life, I'm home - Declan Ramsay (Illuminate the Shadows- Shatterproof Bond #1)
— Isobel Starling, Illuminate the Shadows
When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his absence. "I am perfectly satisfied with her," he wrote. "She is everything I want.
— Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
True love can be overwhelming, and sometimes painful. It is a kaleidoscope of emotions, all sorts of different colours blending together into one. It's gravity so powerful - an unstoppable force. True love is a natural muse; you will puzzle over it, dream about it, and be lost in it. It consumes you wholeheartedly.
— Angie karan
You've always been my safe place, my escape when life gets crazy. You're my calm through every storm.
— Courtney Giardina, Behind the Strings
I laughed at him as he said this. “I am not an angel,” I asserted; “and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me—for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I still had my hand on his side, careful not to press. He reached out and hooked a finger into the belt loop on my jeans. It felt so natural, so fulfilling, to be there with him. To talk with him as if we did it everyday. As if we'd been doung it every day for years. Not even the heat of Ian's fury could penetrate the warmth I was getting from Reyes.
— Darynda Jones, The Dirt on Ninth Grave
True love is an immortal force.
— Marlo Berliner, The Ghost Chronicles
True love happened rarely and standing in the brink of one, it would in all certainty be an act of cowardice to retreat without letting her know his desire.
— Maliny Mohan, Shades Of Life
Lady Ligeia," he began again, "is a woman in the literature who returns from the dead, taking over another woman's body to be with her true love.""Oh, yes. Lovely" Isobel blanched. "I guess the other chick didn't mind at all?
— Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being...'til death do you part.
— David DiBenedetto, Good Dog: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Loyalty
I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn’t about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one.
— Steve Maraboli
. . . and altho I trust I shall be at all times ready to obey any call my country may make upon me, God only knows the sacrifice it will be to make, whenever I shall think it my duty to become a married man. It is now seven-and-twenty years that Madame St. Laurent and I have lived together: we are of the same age, and have been in all climates, and in all difficulties together; and you may well imagine, Mr. Creevey, the pang it will occasion me to part with her . . . As for Madame St. Laurent herself, I protest I don’t know what is to become of her if a marriage is to be forced upon me; her feelings are already so agitated upon the subject.
— Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
You know you really love someone when you do not hate them for breaking your heart.True and unconditional love is a song that never ends, never goes away completely. It has its commas, but never a period. You will still always care. And a piece of your heart is forever dedicated to someone you truly loved.﻿
— Angie karan
The man I picture in my mind is someone ordinary like me. Maybe he’s wearing glasses, maybe he’s not so handsome, but it’s how he loves me that’s extraordinary. It doesn’t matter how many people there are in a room. He knows when I’m there and he’ll find me right away, because I’m his heart and you always have to know where your heartbeat’s coming from.
— Marian Tee, Heart Racer
Valentine’s Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Loving someone doesn't just include that person, Ben. Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too. And I will. I do. I promise.
— Colleen Hoover, November 9
The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen