Amazing Quotes With Images Biography
“Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?”
“It's a strange universe,” he murmured.
“It's not fair,” I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find love–now, in this eleventh hour–and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too? Was it fair that Ian would suffer? He deserved happiness if anyone did. Itwasn't fair or right or even…sane. How could I do this to him?
“I love you,” I whispered.
“Don't say that like you're saying goodbye.”
But I had to. “I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.” I worded it carefully, so that there would be no lie in my voice.
“If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host
tags: love 619 likes like
Sarah Ockler
“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
tags: crying, death, lost, love, tragedy, weeping 598 likes like
Colleen Houck
“And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t.”
― Colleen Houck
tags: jealousy, love, romance 382 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
tags: happiness, love, power 364 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?"
"Because she loves you," said Valentine.
Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
tags: clary-fray, forbidden-love, jace-wayland, love, valentine 361 likes like
Chuck Palahniuk
“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
tags: love 253 likes like
Dave Eggers
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
― Dave Eggers, What is the What
tags: fatalism, love 239 likes like
Becca Fitzpatrick
“It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
tags: fun, love, young 236 likes like
Jeffrey Eugenides
“A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
And we certainly wouldn't write about it.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
tags: love 224 likes like
Audrey Niffenegger
“Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.”
― Audrey Niffenegger
tags: love 204 likes like
Richelle Mead
“I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.
Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re both.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
tags: adorable, adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, couple, cute, love, sexy, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell 189 likes like
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
tags: 1-corinthians-13, faith, inspirational, love, scripture 188 likes like
Tahereh Mafi
“The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e
I kiss my way across the words.
Kissing away the devils.
Kissing away the pain.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
tags: aaron-warner, juliette-ferrars, kissing, love 188 likes like
“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”
― Claudia Gould
tags: love, missing-you 184 likes like
Kahlil Gibran
“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
tags: betrayal, forgiveness, love, pride 182 likes like
Alysha Speer
“Love doesn't give you very many choices. When you love someone, you just want to be with them. If they break your heart, you will still love them. Because hearts are easy to break, and though love is tender and sometimes fragile, love isn't.
Love sort of envelops you. It covers you like a giant shadow, then pulls you in like a blanket. You are so warm. The feeling surrounds you, and no matter how you feel, it is always there. You can't escape it. But you wouldn't want to. You are so, so safe. You can't remember the last time you were this happy. Were you ever? This happy?
Every second you are apart feels like hours. Sometimes, right before you fall asleep, you miss them so much it hurts. You ache for them. Their warmth. Their touch. Their smell. You need them. When you can't sleep you wish and wish and wish that they would wake up and talk to you. When you dream of them, you wake up smiling. When pain stabs into you, you reach out for them. You cry to them, begging them to hold you and make it all go away, make everything go away.
Love addicts you to its feeling. You never, ever want to lose that feeling. Sometimes the fear of losing love drives people to do crazy things. Like buy a plane ticket. Make a phone call. Run out of a class. Cry. Write. Laugh.
Because when you love someone, you really love them. You give them your whole heart. You trust them. You never want to be away from them. Sometimes, you don't even need their words. You just need them there.
Love is such an amazing thing, and too many people take it for granted. If you're in love, don't let it go. Don't you dare let it go.”
― Alysha Speer
tags: life, love 177 likes like
Jodi Lynn Anderson
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
tags: jodi-lynn-anderson, love, peter-pan, tiger-lily 175 likes like
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
tags: love, relationships 174 likes like
Ernest Hemingway
“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
tags: a-farewell-to-arms, ernest-hemingway, love 173 likes like
Jason Mraz
“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.”
― Jason Mraz
tags: education, expression, feelings, humor, inspirational, learning, life, love, truth 173 likes like
Nalini Singh
“I will love you even when I am dust on the wind.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade
tags: dmitri, honor, love, nalini-singh 172 likes like
Christina Rossetti
“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”
― Christina Rossetti, Poems of Christina Rossetti
tags: love 170 likes like
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
tags: humor, love, men, sex, women 169 likes like
Taylor Mali
“Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.
Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.”
― Taylor Mali
tags: cool, love 167 likes like
Bell Hooks
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”
― Bell Hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love
tags: humanism, love, self-knowledge 167 likes like
Sergei Lukyanenko
“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
tags: among-his-own-kind, faith, love 165 likes like
Thomas Mann
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
tags: death, love 165 likes like
Bauvard
“Unrequited love is the only possible way to give yourself to another without being held in indentured servitude.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
tags: funny, love, unrequited-love 164 likes like
Maggie Stiefvater
“He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.
It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
tags: cole, grace-brisbane, linger, love, sam-roth 163 likes like
Ann Brashares
“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”
― Ann Brashares
“Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
You always look so cool," she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
tags: betrayal, love 534 likes like
Gerard Way
“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”
― Gerard Way
tags: frank-iero, gerard-way, killjoys, love, music, my-chemical-romance, song-lyrics 506 likes like
Katie Kacvinsky
“Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
tags: hurting, love, relationships 443 likes like
Paulo Coelho
“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
tags: love, understanding 308 likes like
Tim Burton
“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”
― Tim Burton
tags: aliens, animals, biology, genetics, interspecies, love, romance, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, weird, weirdness 298 likes like
W. Somerset Maugham
“Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
tags: love, men 297 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
tags: jace-wayland, love 293 likes like
James Baldwin
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
― James Baldwin
tags: love 284 likes like
Lisa Kleypas
“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
tags: devotion, hathaway, love, merripen 255 likes like
Ayn Rand
“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all the rest of your time. There's nothing you'll have to pretend - don't think of me, don't feel; don't care - I do not want your mind, your will, your being or your soul, so long as it's to me you will come for that lowest one of your desires. I am an animal who wants nothing but the sensation of pleasure which you despise - but I want it from you. You'd give up amy height of virtue for it , while I - I haven't any to give up. There's none I seek or wish to reach. I am so low that I would exchange the greatest sight of beauty in the world for the sight of your figure in the cab of a railroad engine. Amd seeing it, I would not be able to see it indifferently. You don't have to fear that you're now dependent on me. It's I who will depend on any whim of yours. You'll have me anytime you wish, anywhere, on any terms. Did you call it the obscenity of my talent? It's such that it gives you a safer hold on me than on any other property you own. You may dispose of me as you please - I'm not afraid to admit it - I have nothing to protect from you and nothing to reserve. You think that this is a threat to your achievement, but it is not to mine. I will sit at my desk, and work, and when the things around me get hard to bear, I will think that for my reward I will be in your bed that night. Did you call it depravity? I am much more depraved than you are: you hold it as your guilt, and I - as my pride. I'm more proud of it than anything I've done, more proud than of building the Line. If I'm asked to name my proudest attainment, I will say: I have slept with Hank Rearden. I had earned it.”
― Ayn Rand
tags: love, passion, sex 245 likes like
Deb Caletti
“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
tags: love 243 likes like
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty,
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
tags: care, christ, christianity, christmas, clothe, enemies, feed, forgive, golden-rule, guilty, hungry, ill, inspirational, jesus, life, love, motivational, naked, service, unwanted, welcome 238 likes like
Cornelia Funke
“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
tags: happiness, love 220 likes like
Neil Gaiman
“So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart burned--in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim, and now it is not there at all."
"Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own? I have given my heart to another."
"The boy? The one in the inn? With the unicorn?"
"Yes."
"You should have let me take it back then, for my sisters and me. We could have been young again, well into the next age of the world. Your boy will break it, or waste it, or lose it. They all do."
"Nonetheless, he has my heart. I hope your sisters will not be too hard on you, when you return to them without it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
tags: love 219 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“Love is the most amazing feeling in the world. Let me double check. Yep, love is a feeling.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
tags: absurd, feeling, funny, humor, love 187 likes like
It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what
“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
tags: blessings, broken-heart, compassion, inspirational, kindness, love, true-love 186 likes like
Lisa Kleypas
“There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
tags: love, romance, sorry, wisdom 184 likes like
Richelle Mead
“And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.”
He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”
I grinned back.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
tags: adrian-ivashkov, awww, contentment, conversation, humor, love, marrieds-tbh, otp, relationship, sydney-sage 181 likes like
Osho
“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
tags: advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, meditation, realization, satsang, spirituality, teacher 180 likes like
Laini Taylor
“It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
tags: issa, love 179 likes like
Kelley Armstrong
“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
tags: friendship, loss, love, pain 178 likes like
Alexandre Dumas
“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”
― Alexandre Dumas
tags: alexandre-dumas, love 175 likes like
Tarryn Fisher
“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
tags: caleb, dirty-red, leah, love, love-me-with-lies, olivia 174 likes like
Laini Taylor
“So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?"
"You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale."
"Sounds dangerous."
"Very, so think twice."
"No need," he said. "You're worth it.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
tags: engagement, humor, love, marriage, proposals 173 likes like
Ayn Rand
“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
tags: love, obsession, selfish-love 171 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul? ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
tags: absurd, androgynous, coffee, drink, food, generosity, generous, gift, hydrogenated, love, milk, offer, pour, soul 168 likes like
Becca Fitzpatrick
“I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
tags: haunted, heartache, life, loss, love, missing 166 likes like
Henry James
“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
tags: love 166 likes like
Susan Fletcher
“Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.”
― Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
tags: love 163 likes like
Faraaz Kazi
“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“It's a strange universe,” he murmured.
“It's not fair,” I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find love–now, in this eleventh hour–and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too? Was it fair that Ian would suffer? He deserved happiness if anyone did. Itwasn't fair or right or even…sane. How could I do this to him?
“I love you,” I whispered.
“Don't say that like you're saying goodbye.”
But I had to. “I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.” I worded it carefully, so that there would be no lie in my voice.
“If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn't matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host
tags: love 619 likes like
Sarah Ockler
“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
tags: crying, death, lost, love, tragedy, weeping 598 likes like
Colleen Houck
“And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t.”
― Colleen Houck
tags: jealousy, love, romance 382 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
tags: happiness, love, power 364 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?"
"Because she loves you," said Valentine.
Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
tags: clary-fray, forbidden-love, jace-wayland, love, valentine 361 likes like
Chuck Palahniuk
“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
tags: love 253 likes like
Dave Eggers
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
― Dave Eggers, What is the What
tags: fatalism, love 239 likes like
Becca Fitzpatrick
“It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
tags: fun, love, young 236 likes like
Jeffrey Eugenides
“A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims--these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
And we certainly wouldn't write about it.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
tags: love 224 likes like
Audrey Niffenegger
“Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.”
― Audrey Niffenegger
tags: love 204 likes like
Richelle Mead
“I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.
Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re both.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
tags: adorable, adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, couple, cute, love, sexy, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell 189 likes like
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
tags: 1-corinthians-13, faith, inspirational, love, scripture 188 likes like
Tahereh Mafi
“The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e
I kiss my way across the words.
Kissing away the devils.
Kissing away the pain.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
tags: aaron-warner, juliette-ferrars, kissing, love 188 likes like
“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.”
― Claudia Gould
tags: love, missing-you 184 likes like
Kahlil Gibran
“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
tags: betrayal, forgiveness, love, pride 182 likes like
Alysha Speer
“Love doesn't give you very many choices. When you love someone, you just want to be with them. If they break your heart, you will still love them. Because hearts are easy to break, and though love is tender and sometimes fragile, love isn't.
Love sort of envelops you. It covers you like a giant shadow, then pulls you in like a blanket. You are so warm. The feeling surrounds you, and no matter how you feel, it is always there. You can't escape it. But you wouldn't want to. You are so, so safe. You can't remember the last time you were this happy. Were you ever? This happy?
Every second you are apart feels like hours. Sometimes, right before you fall asleep, you miss them so much it hurts. You ache for them. Their warmth. Their touch. Their smell. You need them. When you can't sleep you wish and wish and wish that they would wake up and talk to you. When you dream of them, you wake up smiling. When pain stabs into you, you reach out for them. You cry to them, begging them to hold you and make it all go away, make everything go away.
Love addicts you to its feeling. You never, ever want to lose that feeling. Sometimes the fear of losing love drives people to do crazy things. Like buy a plane ticket. Make a phone call. Run out of a class. Cry. Write. Laugh.
Because when you love someone, you really love them. You give them your whole heart. You trust them. You never want to be away from them. Sometimes, you don't even need their words. You just need them there.
Love is such an amazing thing, and too many people take it for granted. If you're in love, don't let it go. Don't you dare let it go.”
― Alysha Speer
tags: life, love 177 likes like
Jodi Lynn Anderson
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
tags: jodi-lynn-anderson, love, peter-pan, tiger-lily 175 likes like
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
tags: love, relationships 174 likes like
Ernest Hemingway
“Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
tags: a-farewell-to-arms, ernest-hemingway, love 173 likes like
Jason Mraz
“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.”
― Jason Mraz
tags: education, expression, feelings, humor, inspirational, learning, life, love, truth 173 likes like
Nalini Singh
“I will love you even when I am dust on the wind.”
― Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade
tags: dmitri, honor, love, nalini-singh 172 likes like
Christina Rossetti
“Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?”
― Christina Rossetti, Poems of Christina Rossetti
tags: love 170 likes like
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
tags: humor, love, men, sex, women 169 likes like
Taylor Mali
“Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.
Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.”
― Taylor Mali
tags: cool, love 167 likes like
Bell Hooks
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”
― Bell Hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love
tags: humanism, love, self-knowledge 167 likes like
Sergei Lukyanenko
“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
tags: among-his-own-kind, faith, love 165 likes like
Thomas Mann
“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
tags: death, love 165 likes like
Bauvard
“Unrequited love is the only possible way to give yourself to another without being held in indentured servitude.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
tags: funny, love, unrequited-love 164 likes like
Maggie Stiefvater
“He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.
It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
tags: cole, grace-brisbane, linger, love, sam-roth 163 likes like
Ann Brashares
“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”
― Ann Brashares
“Ah," she cried, "you look so cool."
Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.
You always look so cool," she repeated.
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
tags: betrayal, love 534 likes like
Gerard Way
“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”
― Gerard Way
tags: frank-iero, gerard-way, killjoys, love, music, my-chemical-romance, song-lyrics 506 likes like
Katie Kacvinsky
“Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
tags: hurting, love, relationships 443 likes like
Paulo Coelho
“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
tags: love, understanding 308 likes like
Tim Burton
“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”
― Tim Burton
tags: aliens, animals, biology, genetics, interspecies, love, romance, sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, weird, weirdness 298 likes like
W. Somerset Maugham
“Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
tags: love, men 297 likes like
Cassandra Clare
“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
tags: jace-wayland, love 293 likes like
James Baldwin
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
― James Baldwin
tags: love 284 likes like
Lisa Kleypas
“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
tags: devotion, hathaway, love, merripen 255 likes like
Ayn Rand
“I want you, Hank. I'm much more of an animal than you think. I wanted you from the first moment I saw you - and the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I did not know it. I did not know why, for two years, the brightest moments I found were the ones in your office, where I could lift my head to look up at you. I did not know the nature of what I felt in your presence, nor the reason. I know it now. That is all I want, Hank. I want you in my bed - and you are free of me for all the rest of your time. There's nothing you'll have to pretend - don't think of me, don't feel; don't care - I do not want your mind, your will, your being or your soul, so long as it's to me you will come for that lowest one of your desires. I am an animal who wants nothing but the sensation of pleasure which you despise - but I want it from you. You'd give up amy height of virtue for it , while I - I haven't any to give up. There's none I seek or wish to reach. I am so low that I would exchange the greatest sight of beauty in the world for the sight of your figure in the cab of a railroad engine. Amd seeing it, I would not be able to see it indifferently. You don't have to fear that you're now dependent on me. It's I who will depend on any whim of yours. You'll have me anytime you wish, anywhere, on any terms. Did you call it the obscenity of my talent? It's such that it gives you a safer hold on me than on any other property you own. You may dispose of me as you please - I'm not afraid to admit it - I have nothing to protect from you and nothing to reserve. You think that this is a threat to your achievement, but it is not to mine. I will sit at my desk, and work, and when the things around me get hard to bear, I will think that for my reward I will be in your bed that night. Did you call it depravity? I am much more depraved than you are: you hold it as your guilt, and I - as my pride. I'm more proud of it than anything I've done, more proud than of building the Line. If I'm asked to name my proudest attainment, I will say: I have slept with Hank Rearden. I had earned it.”
― Ayn Rand
tags: love, passion, sex 245 likes like
Deb Caletti
“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
tags: love 243 likes like
Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty,
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
tags: care, christ, christianity, christmas, clothe, enemies, feed, forgive, golden-rule, guilty, hungry, ill, inspirational, jesus, life, love, motivational, naked, service, unwanted, welcome 238 likes like
Cornelia Funke
“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
tags: happiness, love 220 likes like
Neil Gaiman
“So what I want to know is why it is that I can no longer find you, in my mind. You are still there, just, but you are there like a ghost, a will o' the wisp. Not long ago you burned--your heart burned--in my mind like silver fire. But after that night in the inn it became patchy and dim, and now it is not there at all."
"Could it be that the heart that you seek is no longer my own? I have given my heart to another."
"The boy? The one in the inn? With the unicorn?"
"Yes."
"You should have let me take it back then, for my sisters and me. We could have been young again, well into the next age of the world. Your boy will break it, or waste it, or lose it. They all do."
"Nonetheless, he has my heart. I hope your sisters will not be too hard on you, when you return to them without it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
tags: love 219 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“Love is the most amazing feeling in the world. Let me double check. Yep, love is a feeling.”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
tags: absurd, feeling, funny, humor, love 187 likes like
It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what
“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
tags: blessings, broken-heart, compassion, inspirational, kindness, love, true-love 186 likes like
Lisa Kleypas
“There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
tags: love, romance, sorry, wisdom 184 likes like
Richelle Mead
“And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.”
He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”
I grinned back.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
tags: adrian-ivashkov, awww, contentment, conversation, humor, love, marrieds-tbh, otp, relationship, sydney-sage 181 likes like
Osho
“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
tags: advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, meditation, realization, satsang, spirituality, teacher 180 likes like
Laini Taylor
“It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
tags: issa, love 179 likes like
Kelley Armstrong
“Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
― Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
tags: friendship, loss, love, pain 178 likes like
Alexandre Dumas
“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”
― Alexandre Dumas
tags: alexandre-dumas, love 175 likes like
Tarryn Fisher
“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
tags: caleb, dirty-red, leah, love, love-me-with-lies, olivia 174 likes like
Laini Taylor
“So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?"
"You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale."
"Sounds dangerous."
"Very, so think twice."
"No need," he said. "You're worth it.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
tags: engagement, humor, love, marriage, proposals 173 likes like
Ayn Rand
“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
tags: love, obsession, selfish-love 171 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul? ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
tags: absurd, androgynous, coffee, drink, food, generosity, generous, gift, hydrogenated, love, milk, offer, pour, soul 168 likes like
Becca Fitzpatrick
“I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me to the point that I began to believe Hank had gone back on his oath and killed you. I couldn't escape you and I didn't want to. You tortured me, but it was better than losing you.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
tags: haunted, heartache, life, loss, love, missing 166 likes like
Henry James
“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
tags: love 166 likes like
Susan Fletcher
“Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.”
― Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
tags: love 163 likes like
Faraaz Kazi
“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.”
― Faraaz Kazi
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