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The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
— Tammara Webber, Easy
It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it’s a delightful story.
— Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]
— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
What is love? two souls and one flesh friendship? two bodies and one soul.
— Joseph Roux
I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it.
— Pablo Neruda, Love Poems
If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
— Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.
— Paulo Coelho
He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.
— Heather Dixon, Entwined
People do the damndest things when they’re in love.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood
Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depressions that wipe you out.It is also not being able to remove the smile from your face, loving life with a mad passionate intensity, and feeling ten years younger.Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.
— Jackie Collins, Lucky
You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
— Jodi Picoult, Mercy
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
— Yukio Mishima
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
— Cornel West
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
— Jack Kerouac
My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.
— Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
— L.M. Montgomery
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.
— Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.
— Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones
Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
— Jessica Howell
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
— Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.
— Alysha Speer
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
Amor"So many days, oh so many daysseeing you so tangible and so close,how do I pay, with what do I pay?The bloodthirsty springhas awakened in the woods.The foxes start from their earths,the serpents drink the dew,and I go with you in the leavesbetween the pines and the silence,asking myself how and whenI will have to pay for my luck.Of everything I have seen,it's you I want to go on seeing:of everything I've touched,it's your flesh I want to go on touching.I love your orange laughter.I am moved by the sight of you sleeping.What am I to do, love, loved one?I don't know how others loveor how people loved in the past.I live, watching you, loving you.Being in love is my nature.You please me more each afternoon.Where is she? I keep on askingif your eyes disappear.How long she's taking! I think, and I'm hurt.I feel poor, foolish and sad,and you arrive and you are lightningglancing off the peach trees.That's why I love you and yet not why.There are so many reasons, and yet so few,for love has to be so,involving and general,particular and terrifying,joyful and grieving,flowering like the stars,and measureless as a kiss.That's why I love you and yet not why.There are so many reasons, and yet so few,for love has to be so,involving and general,particular and terrifying,joyful and grieving,flowering like the stars,and measureless as a kiss.
— Pablo Neruda, Intimacies: Poems of Love
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...
— Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.
— Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
— Sigmund Freud
Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart. Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Percy and Annabeth were a perfect example of why. You should have to make someone`s heart whole; that was a much better test.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.
— Nicole Krauss
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him..
— Stephen King, It
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
— Walter Benjamin
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. 
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.
— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
Living simply makes loving simple.
— bell hooks
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
— Chad Sugg
Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.
— Jason Mraz
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
— Richard Feynman
A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?"She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?"She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him."Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the tree. The Blue that was before her stood inches from a boy in an Aglionby sweater. There was a slight stoop to his posture, and his shoulders were spattered darkly with rain. It was his fingers that Blue felt on her face. He touched her cheek with the backs of his fingers. Tears coursed down the other Blue's face. Though some strange magic, Blue could feel them on her face as well. She could feel, too, sick, rising misery she'd felt in the churchyard, the grief that felt bigger than her. The other Blue's tears seemed endless. One drop slid after another, each following an identical path down her cheeks.The boy in the Aglionby sweater leaned his forehead against Blue's. She felt the pressure of his skin against hers, and suddenly she could smell mint. It'll be okay. Gansey told the other Blue. She could tell that he was afraid. It'll be okay.Impossibly, Blue realized that this other Blue was crying because she loved Gansey. And that the reason Gansey touched her like that, his fingers so careful with her, was because he knew that her kiss could kill him. She could feel how badly the other Blue wanted to kiss him, even as she dreaded it. Though she couldn't understand why, her real, present day memories in the tree cavity were clouded with other false memories of their lips nearly touching, a life this other Blue had already lived.Okay, I'm ready- Gansey's voice caught, just a little. Blue, kiss me.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
Love those you hate you.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you are. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you. Nevertheless, over all those wasted years, he had held in his mind the wish to kiss her on the back of her neck, and now he had done it. There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
— Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.
— Shannon L. Alder
Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.
— Doug Fetherling
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
— Charlie Chaplin
Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his.The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.
— Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
— C.S. Lewis
Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!
— Demi Lovato
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
— Oprah Winfrey
How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Why is the measure of love loss?
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven.
— Anne Sexton
The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.
— Ashly Lorenzana
My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around. 
— Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.
— Coco J. Ginger
Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.
— Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life:  A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
In love, one and one are one.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.Love is not possessive.Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.Love is not touchy.Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me be a Woman
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.
— John  Williams, Stoner
None of us can choose where we shall love...
— Susan  Kay, Phantom
Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
— Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.
— Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.
— Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun
For she had eyes and chose me.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
— Osho
I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are. 
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.
— Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do people recognize each other?""I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?
— R.J. Palacio, Wonder
So I’m your huntress and thief?” His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, “You are my salvation, Feyre.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting."I try to hide the shudder that goes through me at the word "execution," my shoulder screaming with pain, and look up at Tobias. It's hard to blink tears back when I see the terror in Tobias's wide, dark eyes."No," says Tobias. His voice trembles, but his look stern as he shakes his head. "I would rather die.""I'm afraid you don't have much of a choice in that matter," replies Jeanine lightly.Tobias takes my face in this hands roughly and kisses me, the pressure of his lips pushing mine apart. I forget my pain and the terror of approaching death and for a moment, I am grateful that the memory of that kiss will be fresh in my mind as I meet my end.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
You didn’t think I’d let you go alone, did you?”“No, but I’m grateful that I had you with me.”“Grateful is all I’m going to get, isn’t it?”“What else were you hoping for?”“Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible.”“Sorry, Don Juan. You’ll have to live with my undying gratitude.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest
There is a desire within each of us,in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart.We were born with it, it is never completely satisfied,and it never dies.We are often unaware of it, but it is always awake.It is the Human desire for Love.Every person in this Earth yearns to love,to be loved, to know love.Our true identity, our reason for beingis to be found in this desire.Love is the "why" of life,why we are functioning at all.I am convincedit is the fundamental energy of the human spirit.the fuel on which we run,the wellspring of our vitality.And grace, which is the flowing,creative activity, of love itself,is what makes all goodness possible.Love should come first,it should be the beginning of,and the reason for everything.
— Gerald G. May, Living in Love
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.
— Lauren Kate
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.
— Shannon L. Alder
...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
— Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With
For there is no friend like a sisterIn calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray,To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands
— Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems
You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
— Oscar Wilde
The more you are motivated by Love, The more Fearless & Free your action will be.
— Dalai Lama XIV
I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.
— Taylor Swift
Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze.She loosed a shuddering breath, and a small, whimpering noise came out of her - a sob. And then she was sprinting down the alley, flying as though the winds themselves pushed at her heels.She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. Nesryn made to approach, but Aedion stopped her with a hand on her arm.Aelin was laughing as she cried, and the male was just holding her, his hooded head buried in her neck. As if he were breathing her in."Who is that?" Nesryn asked.Aedion smiled. "Rowan.
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
— Courtney Love, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.
— Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red
I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.
— Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise
When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
— Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.
— Albert Camus
I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shedsits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyaltyand divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth andtime–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off tofind the next real thing.
— Richard Paul Evans, The Letter
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
— William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
— Shannon Hale
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.
— Philippa Gregory, The White Queen
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Love as thou wilt
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. 
— Graham Greene
His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell of me and how beautiful I look to him, how strong after all that illness, and how he wants to just lightly touch my neck, just there, and how he wants to take me in his arms and-"Oh, God," he says, looking away suddenly. "Viola, I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"But I just put my hand to the back of his neck-And he says, "Viola-?"And I pull myself towards him-And I kiss him.And it feels like, finally.
— Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
— Dave Eggers, What Is the What
I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.
— Taylor Swift
Love...no such thing.Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.
— Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.
— Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind. 
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.
— Nicholas Sparks
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
— Bertrand Russell
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
— Leo Tolstoy
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
— Anna Nalick
I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.
— Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.
— Christine Feehan, Water Bound
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
— Bob Dylan
I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
— Edith Wharton
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
I love you, Marks. My heart is completely and utterly yours. And unfortunately for you, the rest of me comes with it.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
I am no king, and I am no lord,And I am no soldier at-arms," said he."I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper,That am come hither to wed with ye.""If you were a lord, you should be my lord,And the same if you were a thief," said she."And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper,For it makes no matter to me, to me,For it makes no matter to me.""But what if it prove that I am no harper?That I lied for your love most monstrously?""Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing,For I dearly love a good harp," said she.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
— Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.
— Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue
A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.Q: It always happens?A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out?A: Instead of always watching out.
— Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses
That was the only time, as I stood there, looking at that strange rubbish, feeling the wind coming across those empty fields, that I started to imagine just a little fantasy thing, because this was Norfolk after all, and it was only a couple of weeks since I’d lost him. I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half-closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, maybe even call. The fantasy never got beyond that --I didn't let it-- and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn't sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
— Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.
— Rachel Caine, Feast of Fools
But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.
— Taylor Swift
I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
— Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
Love simply is.
— Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
— Leo Buscaglia
Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?''None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? 
— Albert Einstein
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.
— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.
— Federico García Lorca
I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
— Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
— Clive Barker
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone. 
— Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without.
— Rafael Ortiz
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
— Andrea Gibson, How It Ends
Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.
— Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of.
— Colleen Houck
You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.' I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. 'I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me.' I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. 'That's what makes you my favorite.' He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. 'Every wicked bit of you.
— Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.
— Rachel Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day
I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer. 
— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.