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Happiness Is Dependent Upon Choosing To Function Within The Laws And Principles Of Kingdom Of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Laughter Is Created As An Expression Of Happiness And Joy Which Results In Health
— Sunday Adelaja
Happiness is happiness
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The melody of music makes my heart merry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Never have I seen so many young, privileged, people trying so hard to be happy. There are countless articles written about it, blogs named for it, workshops attending to it. Who ever said we’re supposed to be happy all the time, anyway? We’re not. And the pressure to do so might be what’s making us unhappy to begin with. It’s OK if you’re not completely content with your life twenty-four hours a day. Can you imagine what a boring person you’d be if you were? Going through shit storms, feeling uninspired, hating the way you look and having guilt over not accomplishing enough are just some of the things that make you interesting, relatable and human. Not to mention, if you’re reading this, then you have internet access and if you have internet access, it stands to reason that you have a computer, which makes me think you probably have a place to live, with electricity and plenty of food to eat and clean clothes to wear, which are all things that an enormous amount of people living on the planet today do not have. This is not to say that people shouldn’t strive to better their positions in life, however it seems like so many of us are no longer content with a regular amount of happy, yet dead-set on being maniacally jubilant, all of the time.
— Kelly Rheel
Laugh every day for five minutes, without any reason, then repeat it for 21 days straight and it will become your habit to do.
— Catherine B. Roy, Live From Your Heart and Mind: The Secret to the Simplicity of Connecting your Heart and Mind on the Road to Happiness and Success.
You’ll never get what you truly deserve if you remain attached to what you’re supposed to let go of.
— Genereux Philip
I enjoy the wild things, Call me at 3 am and tell me you're waiting at my door. Give me sunsets in different cities and road trips on dirt tracks not sighted on maps. Whiskey for breakfast & cheap thrills for dinner. Give me happiness in a smile and nothing of certainty but the way we make eachother feel. There so much life in living while you're alive & id give absolutely anything to have it all with you.
— Nikki Rowe
You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now
— Avis J. Williams
To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job
— Warren Buffett
Happiness is like a ripple. If you're the origin, you will get happiness back with same frequency.
— saadshah
Be happy, not contented.
— Biju Paulose
We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
Without the 'applied awareness' of the Soul, 'happiness' cannot arise.
— Dada Bhagwan
Smile is a talent, few don't have.
— saadshah
The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Emotions are the road signs to your happiness.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.
— Christopher West
May your heart be filled with happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm not a puzzle piece to someone else's puzzle, I'm my own puzzle that is still growing. I'm unsure of what it'll look like when it's done, but it will be uniquely me.
— Macy Niichel
I’m feeling really hopeful about it, like maybe I actually have a chance to get better. To be happy. It’s funny, I just realized that my whole life, the whole time I’ve been trying to be perfect, I never once considered happiness as part of the equation. I guess it seemed so impossible I couldn’t even let myself fantasize about it. But now, I don’t know, things feel different somehow. Like impossible things might not be so impossible.
— Amy Reed, Clean
The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.
— Chelsey Philpot, Even in Paradise
If people read poetry, they would be happier.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Enjoy time of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we read the Scriptures, God will shine in our heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not delay your happiness, be glad in the moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you decide to move on, you leave a piece of yourself inside them.Unknowingly.So smile.Smile, because with that piece you've beautified something that broke you.☺ Pat yourself, you've contributed to the universe!
— Shonali Dey
If someone says, "the Gnani Purush is happy in the 'Real' but happy or unhappy in the 'relative’", then I would say, "No, the Gnani Purush Knows the 'relative' as being the 'relative', and therefore He is happy in the relative as well.
— Dada Bhagwan
Shrieking Brooke’s name as loudly as I could, out in the corridor, I brought her running quickly to my room.‘What’s happened, what’s wrong?’ she immediately cried concerned, legging it up the stairs two at a time. She appeared breathless outside the kitchen door. Brian appeared sleepily at his door too, awoken by the noise, and watched us.‘She’s moving,’ I cried.‘What? Flutters like before?’‘No more, here feel.’ I grabbed her hand and pushed it down onto myexposed belly. Brian averted his eyes as I stood, belly out and top up over my bra, in the middle of the corridor.‘I can’t push you that hard,’ she exclaimed, pulling back her fingers surprised. ‘It will hurt you, or her, I can’t do that.’‘Yes, you can,’ I insisted. ‘You won’t hurt us.’ I pulled her hand back and pushed her long fingers into my belly and we stood waiting, hardly daring to breathe. You kicked again, hard into my side, under Brooke’s long pink fingernails. Brooke jumped away from me in shock and then burst out laughing. She clapped her hands together delighted.‘Well?’ I asked her.‘She kicked me,’ Brooke shrieked still jumping up and down clapping. ‘She kicked me. That was amazing, let me do it again.’ She came back over towards me slowly. Cautiously she pushed her fingers into the same spot on my side. We waited again in silence and I saw her face slightly drop as the seconds ticked by.‘Ah it works,’ she yelled, as again she jumped back shocked as the tiny little feet thudded from my insides at her hand. ‘I love it. Do it again.’ I laughed and then Brian stepped forward.‘Can I have a go?’ he asked quietly, fiddling with his hands and stepping out of his room towards us.‘Of course you can, come here.’And that is how we spent the next few minutes out in the corridor by the kitchen, shrieking, whooping, and jumping around. If anyone had been in the house, I know they would probably have thought we were all mad. Mad, no. Thrilled and excited, most definitely.Baby girl, you did that to us. Thank you.
— Emily  Williams, Letters to Eloise
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Gnani’ [the englightened one] gives freedom from all sufferings. Outside [world] reigns the cycle of antagonistic [painful] times, Kaliyug. On the contrary, it will even take away whatever happiness you may have.
— Dada Bhagwan
Her question was clear-“Father, where does the Loss reside?”In the sighs?Cheeks with tears wiped?A lost appetite?Owning a room confined?Or in the smiles all falsified?Thus, the Father decide,It is no matter to hide, he replied-“I think its deep inside,Probably,In the layers of your soul,Where the body provides it,Ample food to be-Magnified, multiplied, intensified.But once you clarify,That its not to be occupied inside,It starves of supplies,And dies.So child, when there is loss,Make sure you refuse to invite it inward, And absolutely never make it your lifelong parasite.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
She looked down at her bulging veins and she remembered the most important thing that she had forgotten – she was alive.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
It is very sad that most of us just aren’t grateful for what we have. If you’re reading this, I think it’s safe to assume that you’re not homeless. You’re not blind. You might be ill, but you’re still alive. And yet, we find it hard to be thankful. To see the gift each day brings us. It is from this lack of true gratitude that we become sad. We have told ourselves over and over that we aren’t happy. That our lives aren’t good. That we’re no good.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
La felicità non consiste nel mettersi al riparo dalla sofferenza, ma di integrarla al tessuto della nostra esistenza.
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Invisible Love
Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Love, they said, burns youand builds you.But with you, there’s no ash.Just light.
— Kamand Kojouri
Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.
— Nikki Rowe
Find your happiness before the music of this world falls on deaf ears.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
Sam woke to a feeling of utter, profound, incredible relief.He closed his eyes as soon as he opened them, afraid that being awake would just invite something terrible to appear.Astrid was back. And she was asleep with her head on his arm. His arm was asleep, completely numb, but as long as that blond head was right there his arm could stay numb.She smelled like pine trees and campfire smoke.He opened his eyes, cautious, almost flinching, because the FAYZ didn’t make a habit of allowing him pure, undiluted happiness. The FAYZ made a habit of stomping on anything that looked even a little bit like happiness. And this level of happiness was surely tempting retaliation. From this high up the fall could be a long, long one.
— Michael  Grant, Fear
Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others, he finds peace, freedom, sorrow and love.
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
It takes a lot of courage to be happy.
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, First Breath, Last Breath
The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Set as higher dimensional beings walking the earth today, who must INcarnate (there is no REincarnation if there is no time. Exception: descending spirals which crystallize in lower frequencies) to live in the various dream worlds (this one included) with the final "kick"/baptism by water, pulling up ALL the densities/dimensions through LOVE.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
This is just a brief "off the top of the head" first blush analysis, and if one wanted to dig deeper, it wouldn't be difficult to discover more "gems" hidden in plain sight.Devil's Inception!
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.
— Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings
Often we imagine that we will work hard until we arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an objective. It is the movement of life itself, a process, and an activity. It arises from curiosity and discovery. Seek pleasure and you will quickly discover the shortest path to suffering. Other people, friends, brothers, sisters, neighbors, spouses, even your mother and I are not responsible for your happiness. Your life is your responsibility, and you always have the choice to do your best. Doing your best will bring happiness. Do not be overconcerned with avoiding pain or seeking pleasure. If you are concentrating on the results of your actions, you are not dedicated to your task.
— Ethan Hawke, Rules for a Knight
Happy Mind, Happy Home
— Napa Kettle
Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.
— Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
The "inner circle of humanity" recognizes others through frequency, regardless of walk of life or "positioning in the astral". This is an operation run invisibly from Outside the astral. Going Home represents the final shift to one's true spiritual families of light, in all dimensions of harmonics; higher vibrations/love in unity consciousness, above, below and literally "everywhere and everynow".
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Knowing that you can endure a very difficult challenge offers a degree of confidence that the next challenge can also be endured.
— Auliq-Ice
Happiness softens trials, changes perspective, elevates attitudes, focuses attention, redirects negativity, empowers us to see more clearly, and expands, widens, lifts, ennobles and deepens the sense of meaning and purpose we discover in life.
— Auliq-Ice
There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank,” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Social media allows us to subjugate feelings and problems we don't want to confront, like emotional eating or substance abuse, thus perpetuating our problems and delaying our happiness.
— Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
The past, the present, the future –The floodgates of time wait for Her footsteps Yet She resides forever –In the shape of a rising dawn,In the sound of a humming bee,In the chirping of a flying bird,In the birth of a newborn,In the blissful serenity of Nature;For Happiness is but a reflection of simplicity.
— Debatrayee Banerjee, A Whispering Leaf. . .
We create excuses that stand between us and other people
—  excuses that separate us from the happiness and the prospects these people can present.
Secret glances are shared by those on the "inside" or esoteric "inner circle", who have literally gone into many lower frequencies simultaneously. This is the "secret glance" of love, which allows the higher to operate in the lower; to "save" those worlds in order to correct the impending takeover of the "Devil and his demons", a metaphor for light and dark "battles" raging today.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
If the 4th "dimension" is blocked, which is a kind of cosmic umbrella, through which 5D through 9D and higher are designed to operate in physical realms, being non-physical, then the Devil who controls "the spice" controls everything. It would be easy to continue with the reasons behind death, terrible plague on earth.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
The concept that man is not awake, and that only a fully conscious being can "do", have will and not be subject to the law of accident.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
This is the vital difference between Conscious Beings, which we are morphing into organically, and those who are asleep or unconscious.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
Slightly higher density polarized negative entities", regardless of their actual metaphoric names. What's in a name... a rose still has thorns!
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.
— Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here
The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
A terrible plague has either killed mankind or transformed them into demons ... and all they want is Compton's soul.The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.
— Compton Gage, Devil's Inception
He's like a drug for you, Bella.
— Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Every great love starts with a great story...
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
— Albert Camus, The Fall
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
— Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
My soul will find yours.
— Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
You’re dangerous,” he says.“Why?”“Because you make me believe in the impossible
— Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
— Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.
— William Shakespeare
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything.
— Chase Brooks, Hello, My Love 2: First Love Deserves a Second Chance
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. 
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
thus with a kiss I die
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.
— Meg Cabot, Princess in Training
The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
— Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.
— Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
I honestly have no idea how to live without you.
— Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
— Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs.I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m seeing.“You have my heart.” And he waves toward the room.“And here are the flowers,” I whisper, completing his sentence. “Christian, it’s lovely.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.
— Julia Quinn
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
— Oprah Winfrey
No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
— J.D. Robb, Innocent in Death
Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
— John Green
If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
Ever since I’ve met you, I’ve wanted to break every rule.” Aiden turned away, the muscles in his neck tensing. He sighed. “You’ll become the centre of someone’s world one day. And he’ll be the luckiest son of a bitch on this earth.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure
Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.
— Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
— Groucho Marx
Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.
— Linda Howard, After the Night
Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—" He stood up. "Let's dance.
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
But ... but what if I hit you?”A snort. “You’re not going to hit me.”“How do you know?” I bristled at his amused tone. “I could hit you. Even master swordsmen make mistakes. I could get a lucky shot, or you might not see me coming. I don’t want to hurt you.”He favored me with another patient look. “And how much experience do you have with swords and weapons in general?” “Um.” I glanced down at the saber in my hand. “Thirty seconds?”He smiled, that calm, irritatingly confident smirk. “You’re not going to hit me.
— Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen
You were just worried about me." An exhale, relieved that I had understood. "Yeah"I turned. "Because you think I'm worth it"He put his fingers under my chin. "I absolutely think your worth it.""But you don't think you are."His mouth opened. Shut."That's what this is about, Derek. You won't let us worry about you because you don't think you're worth it. But I do. I absolutely do.
— Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning
Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.
— Cecelia Ahern
what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
— Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me." I hesitated, know that if I stopped now, I'd never be able to say it to anyone. "I love you," I whispered. "Did you ever imagine something like this?" she wondered aloud. "You and me , I mean?" "No," I said. "It scares me a little." My stomach flipped, and all at once, I was sure she didnt feel the same way. "You dont have to say it back to me," I began. "That's not why I said it--" "I know," she interrupted. "You don't understand. I wasnt scared because you told me. I got scared because I wanted to say it, too: I love you, John.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Stay with me.Always.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
— Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'""Sorry," Noah said. "I'm just not that big of a person.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Things work out the way they're meant to
— Danielle Steel, No Greater Love
He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Live like you were dying, Love because you are.
— Mark Green
I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.
— P.C. Cast, Untamed
No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway.""To make sure Katniss is still here?" asks Peeta."Something like that,"..."That was funny, what Tigris said. About no one knowing what to do with her.""Well, WE never have,"..."She loves you, you know," says Peeta. "She as good as told me after they whipped you.""Don't believe it,"Gale answers. "The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell...well she never kissed me like that.""It was just part of the show," Peeta tells him, although there's an edge of doubt in his voice."No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her." There's a long pause. "I should have volunteered to take your place in the first Games. Protected her then.""You couldn't," says Peeta. "She'd never have forgiven you. You had to take care of her family. They matter more to her than her life."..."I wonder how she'll make up her mind.""Oh, that I do know." I can just catch Gale's last words through the layer of fur. "Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. 
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Classics
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
— Judith Martin
I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I’ll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don’t ask me to live apart from you again. Because...I can’t.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest
Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” Her expression turned guarded. “Reyna explained it to me. But, Percy, you belong at Camp Half-Blood. That other life—”“I know,” Percy said. “But while I was there, I saw so many demigods living without fear: kids going to college, couples getting married and raising families. There’s nothing like that at Camp Half-Blood. I kept thinking about you and me…and maybe someday when this war with the giants is over…”It was hard to tell in the golden light, but he thought Annabeth was blushing. “Oh,” she said…“I’m sorry,” he said. “I just…I had to think of that to keep going. To give me hope. Forget I mentioned—”“No!” she said. “Gods, Percy, that’s so sweet.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.
— Margaret Atwood
And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.
— Kim Harrison, Every Which Way But Dead
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.
— Kate Chisman, Run
Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?”“Oh, let’s see. I guess the first day of school. We were five. You had on a red plaid dress and your hair... it was in two braids instead of one. My father pointed you out when we were waiting to line up,” Peeta says.“Your father? Why?” I ask.“He said, ‘See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner,’” Peeta says.“What? You’re making that up!” I exclaim.“No, true story,” Peeta says. “And I said, ‘A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could’ve had you?’ And he said, ‘Because when he sings... even the birds stop to listen.’”“That’s true. They do. I mean, they did,” I say. I’m stunned and surprisingly moved, thinking of the baker telling this to Peeta. It strikes me that my own reluctance to sing, my own dismissal of music might not really be that I think it’s a waste of time. It might be because it reminds me too much of my father.“So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent,” Peeta says.“Oh, please,” I say, laughing.“No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew—just like your mother—I was a goner,” Peeta says. “Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you.”“Without success,” I add.“Without success. So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck,” says Peeta. For a moment, I’m almost foolishly happy and then confusion sweeps over me. Because we’re supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love not actually being in love. But Peeta’s story has a ring of truth to it. That part about my father and the birds. And I did sing the first day of school, although I don’t remember the song. And that red plaid dress... there was one, a hand-me-down to Prim that got washed to rags after my father’s death.It would explain another thing, too. Why Peeta took a beating to give me the bread on that awful hollow day. So, if those details are true... could it all be true?“You have a... remarkable memory,” I say haltingly. “I remember everything about you,” says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. “You’re the one who wasn’t paying attention.”“I am now,” I say.“Well, I don’t have much competition here,” he says. I want to draw away, to close those shutters again, but I know I can’t. It’s as if I can hear Haymitch whispering in my ear, “Say it! Say it!”I swallow hard and get the words out. “You don’t have much competition anywhere.” And this time, it’s me who leans in.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Attraction is not an option. 
— Neil Strauss
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me."That's more like it.
— Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas
What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?
— Lauren Kate, Passion
I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you.
— Julie James, Practice Makes Perfect
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.
— Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
His eyes drifted leisurely back up to my face and he smiled at me appreciatively, “Kelsey, when a man spends time with a beautiful woman, he needs to pace himself. I quirked my eyebrow at him and laughed. “Yeah, I’m a regular marathon alright.” He kissed my fingers. “Exactly. A wise man never sprints…in a marathon.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
— Oscar Wilde
Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards.
— Susane Colasanti, When It Happens
I couldn't stop staring at his mouth when he spoke. I bet he knew how to kiss. Perfect kisses too, ones that weren't wet and gross, but the kind that curled toes.I needed to stop looking at him in general.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian
I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
If you would take one step forward, darling, you could cry in my arms. And while you do, I'll tell you how sorry I am for everything I've done -" Unable to wait, Ian caught her, pulling her tightly against him. "And when I'm finished," he whispered hoarsely as she wrapped her arms around him and wept brokenly, "you can help me find a way to forgive myself."Tortured by her tears, he clasped her tighter and rubbed his jaw against her temple, his voice a ravaged whisper: "I'm sorry," he told her. He cupped her face between his palms, tipping it up and gazing into her eyes, his thumbs moving over her wet cheeks. "I'm sorry." Slowly, he bent his head, covering her mouth with his. "I'm so damned sorry.
— Judith McNaught, Almost Heaven
After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-""Okay, that was so not my fault-""-which wiped out two-thirds of the human population.""I'd like to remind you that you don't like humans.""They smell bad when they're dead.""All you mortal types do.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Enshrined
My beloved is the sunAnd I am the earth that thrives only in her warmth. My beloved is the rainAnd I am the grass that thirsts for her quenching kiss. My beloved is the windAnd I am the wings that soar when she fills me with her gentle strength.My beloved is the rockUpon which rests the happiness of all my days.—The Elements of Love, a poem by Aileron v'En Kavali of the Fey
— C.L. Wilson, Lord of the Fading Lands
But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain. - Kate
— Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You
Mr. Bradford," she said. "I'm not going to propose to you."The twinkle in Mr. Bradford's eyes faded. So did his smile. He managed to keep it on his face. It looked painful."Oh," he said."Mr. Bradford?""Yes?""Would you mind it so very much if...you know...you proposed to me?"The light in Mr. Bradford's eyes jumped to life. He beamed so largely it almost wasn't crooked."If you want.
— Heather Dixon, Entwined
As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd fit in my arms. ~Ren
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.
— Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him
— Ai Yazawa, 天使なんかじゃない―完全版 1 [Tenshi Nanka Janai: Kanzenban 1]
In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
You know what they say about boys next door...
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian
I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart. I'm your worrier, remember?" "I'll never forget. I promise. I'm your High Priestess and you've pledged yourself to me. That means you have my heart, too.""Then both of us better stay safe. A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it.
— P.C. Cast
Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?""I don't know any other way.""Let me show you."And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well.""And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.
— Sanober  Khan
And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
— David Nicholls, One Day
Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
When I am an old man and I can remember nothing else, I will remember this moment. The first time my eyes beheld an angel in the flesh. “I will remember your body and your eyes, your beautiful face and breasts, your curves and this.” He traced his hand around her navel before dragging it lightly to the top of her lower curls. “I will remember your scent and your touch and how it felt to love you. But most of all, I will remember how it felt to gaze at true beauty, both inside and out. For you are fair, my beloved, in soul and in body, generous of spirit and generous of heart. And I will never see anything this side of heaven more beautiful tham you
— Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno
And second, keep in mind that you are a weapon. In theory, when you're done with training, you should be able to kick a hole in a wall or knock out a moose with a single punch.""I would never hit a moose," said Clary. "They're endangered.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
You are more to me than any of them has any idea
—  you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.
— Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.
— Amanda Hocking, Torn
Let me rephrase.” He took a seething step toward me. “When it comes to you… I don’t like to share.
— Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
Of course. Silly me. Such a sad, exciting score, which no doubt you can play? So many accomplishments, Mr. Grey.”“And the greatest one is you, Miss Steele.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.
— P.C. Cast, Goddess of Light
If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself."She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. "Miiiiiiiiine!" he says."Cut it out." Anna pushes him off, laughing. "You'll get fired. And then I'll have to support your sorry arse for the rest of our lives.
— Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.
— David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.
— Rainbow Rowell, Carry On
She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.
— Amor Towles, Rules of Civility
Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.
— Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms
Its been six weeks," he murmured. "Six weeks I've wanted you. I know how you move, and how the sunlight makes a shadow on the curve of your cheek, and the shape of your ear." He chucked harshly then turned his head on the pillow to look at her. "I'm dying," he said. He dropped his fist against his chest. "Right here, you're killing me.
— Laura Kinsale, The Prince of Midnight
He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us."I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said.[Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked.""I wish you hadn't told me that, babe.""Everyone I know wants to see you naked.""And you?""Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.
— Janet Evanovich, Hard Eight
Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith
— Maya Banks, Sweet Surrender
I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I'll turn around one day and you'll be gone.
— Rachel Gibson, Lola Carlyle Reveals All
Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…
— Rowena Cherry, Knight's Fork
Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes. 
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?
— Maya Banks, Hidden Away
He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.
— Cate Tiernan
I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains