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“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: love, wisdom 664 likes like
Gayle Forman
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
tags: heartbreak, if-i-stay, love 618 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
tags: bhie, broken-heart, jodi-picoult, love, my-sister-s-keeper 544 likes like
Paulo Coelho
“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
tags: love 453 likes like
“I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”
― Jack Llawayllynn, Indulgence
tags: desire, gay, love, m-m, male-male, obsession 419 likes like
Chuck Palahniuk
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
tags: death, love, rejection 368 likes like
Anaïs Nin
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
― Anaïs Nin
tags: anaïs-nin, love, polyamory 338 likes like
Suzanne Collins
“Not like this. He wanted it to be real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
tags: fake, haymitch, katniss, love, marriage, peeta, proposal 337 likes like
Christopher Paolini
“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
tags: closeness, family, love 317 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
tags: life, love, meaning 307 likes like
Charles Frazier
“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you are. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you. Nevertheless, over all those wasted years, he had held in his mind the wish to kiss her on the back of her neck, and now he had done it. There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
tags: grief, love, separation, war 267 likes like
Sarah Dessen
“The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.”
― Sarah Dessen
tags: love 206 likes like
Richelle Mead
“I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
tags: adrian-ivashkov, feelings, love, sydney-sage 203 likes like
Greg Behrendt
“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
tags: love, relationships 199 likes like
Cornel West
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public”
― Cornel West
tags: justice, love, society, wisdom 191 likes like
Michelle Hodkin
“I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
tags: love 190 likes like
Jane Austen
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: jane-austen, literature, love, northanger-abbey 188 likes like
Heather Brewer
“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”
― Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
tags: death, love, parents, vlad 185 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
tags: hopeful, jodi-picoult, loss, love, memory, plain-truth, remember, sad, wish 184 likes like
Anthony de Mello
“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
tags: awareness, happiness, love 181 likes like
Stephenie Meyer
“Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.”
― Stephenie Meyer
tags: bella, edward, love, midnight-sun 180 likes like
“But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine”
― Jack Johnson
tags: change, couples, love, smile, song 179 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
tags: craving, desires, love, wants 178 likes like
Alexandra Potter
“...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.”
― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?
tags: love, romance 177 likes like
Richelle Mead
“One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.
Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
tags: commitment, death, dimitri-belikov, love 177 likes like
Emma Thompson
“Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
tags: emotions, fire, love, politeness 176 likes like
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love, and you shall be loved.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: love 175 likes like
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
tags: love, rainer-maria-rilke 175 likes like
Rumi
“When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.”
― Rumi
tags: corporeal-punishment, love, love-is-like-a-lawsuit, rumi 173 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“Love is like a forest, I think as I kill trees by squandering toilet paper while “decorating” my ex girlfriend’s front yard. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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Lisa Kleypas
“The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand.
—should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of the fact that you will never read it. I have felt these words like a weight in my chest, until I find myself amazed that a heart can go on beating under such a burden.
I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking. My love, you don't belong with a man like me. In the past I've done things you wouldn't approve of, and I've done them ten times over. I have led a life of immoderate sin. As it turns out, I'm just as immoderate in love. Worse, in fact.
I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you.
I want you under me. On your back.
I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it. Your arms and legs around me. Your mouth, open for my kisses. I need too much of you. A lifetime of nights spent between your thighs wouldn't be enough.
I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me.
If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.
You would say it's too soon to feel this way. You would ask how I could be so certain. But some things can't be measured by time. Ask me an hour from now. Ask me a month from now. A year, ten years, a lifetime. The way I love you will outlast every calendar, clock, and every toll of every bell that will ever be cast. If only you—
And there it stopped.”
― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
tags: angst, hannah-appleton, love, love-letters, passion, rafe-bowman, romance 512 likes like
Carrie Underwood
“The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.”
― Carrie Underwood
tags: boys, carrie-underwood, dogs, love 404 likes like
Gerard Way
“Tears are words the heart can't express”
― Gerard Way
tags: definitions, life, love 362 likes like
Colleen Houck
“There are many different types of kisses. There’s a passionate kiss of farewell—like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can’t-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be—like with Superman and Lois Lane. There’s the first kiss—one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there’s the kiss of possession—which was how Ren kissed me now.
It went beyond passion, beyond desire. His kiss was full of longing, need, and love, like all those other kisses. But, it was also filled with promises and pledges, some of which seemed sweet and tender while others seemed dangerous and exciting. He was taking me over. Staking a claim.
He seized me as boldly as the tiger captured his prey. There was no escape. And I didn’t want to. I would have happily died in his clutches. I was his. And he made sure I knew it. My heart burst with a thousand beautiful blooms, all tiger lilies. And I knew with a certainty more powerful than anything I’d ever felt before that we belonged together. ”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest
tags: love, romance 362 likes like
Sophie Kinsella
“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?
tags: crush, love, teen 322 likes like
Jeanette Winterson
“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
tags: love 318 likes like
Andrew Davidson
“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
― Andrew Davidson
tags: distance, love 288 likes like
“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
tags: goodness, love 282 likes like
Stephenie Meyer
“Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
tags: love 279 likes like
Rachel Caine
“In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.”
― Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
tags: fear, love 243 likes like
Maggie Stiefvater
“I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.
I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.
The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.
Too close.
I couldn't stay away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
tags: love 227 likes like
Haruki Murakami
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
tags: forgetting, letting-go, life, life-lessons, love, memories, not-letting-go 217 likes like
Maggie Stiefvater
“What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
tags: love 215 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."
..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
― Jodi Picoult
tags: handle-with-care, love, picoult 213 likes like
Andrea Gibson
“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”
― Andrea Gibson
tags: love, poetry, relationships, romance 212 likes like
Diablo Cody
“He is the cheese to my macaroni.”
― Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script
tags: couples, love 201 likes like
Jonathan Tropper
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
tags: hurt, love, pain, scars, true, true-love 199 likes like
Stanisław Lem
“On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny. So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going?
Must I go on living here then, among the objects we both had touched, in the air she had breathed? In the name of what? In the hope of her return? I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.”
― Stanisław Lem
tags: love, science-fiction, solaris 198 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”
― Jodi Picoult
tags: constancy, everlasting-love, love 189 likes like
Kiera Cass
“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite
tags: history, love, tangled 188 likes like
Niall Horan
“If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.”
― Niall Horan
tags: dog, horan, lady, love, niall, nice, onedirection, sweet 182 likes like
Susan Fletcher
“Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?”
― Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
tags: love 181 likes like
Melissa Jensen
“sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”
― Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
tags: love, unrequited-love 180 likes like
Laini Taylor
“Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
tags: cats, love, yearning 178 likes like
Euripides
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays
tags: anger, bitterness, love 177 likes like
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon
tags: hope, love 177 likes like
أحمد خيري العمري
“من قال لك أن درب الجنة معبد بالورود؟”
― أحمد خيري العمري, إدرينالين
tags: change, faith, heaven, islam, life, love, wisdom 176 likes like
Richelle Mead
“Love fades. Mine has.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
tags: dimitri, love, rose 175 likes like
Walter Benjamin
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
― Walter Benjamin
tags: hope, love 173 likes like
Richelle Mead
“Other people spoke, and I tried to keep up with the translations. All the stories were about Dimitri's kindness and strength of character. Even when not out battling the undead, Dimitri had always been there to help those who needed it. Almost everyone could recall sometime that Dimitri had stepped up to help others, going out of his way to do what was right, even in situations that could put him at risk. That was no surprise to me. Dimitri always did the right thing.
And it was that attitude that had made me love him so much. I had a similar nature. I too rushed in when others needed me, sometimes when I shouldn't have. Others called me crazy for it, but Dimitri had understood. He'd always understood me, and part of what we'd worked on was how to temper that impulsive need to run into danger with reason and calculation. I had a feeling no one else in this world would ever understand me like he did.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
― Charles Bukowski
tags: love, wisdom 664 likes like
Gayle Forman
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
tags: heartbreak, if-i-stay, love 618 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
tags: bhie, broken-heart, jodi-picoult, love, my-sister-s-keeper 544 likes like
Paulo Coelho
“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
tags: love 453 likes like
“I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”
― Jack Llawayllynn, Indulgence
tags: desire, gay, love, m-m, male-male, obsession 419 likes like
Chuck Palahniuk
“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
tags: death, love, rejection 368 likes like
Anaïs Nin
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
― Anaïs Nin
tags: anaïs-nin, love, polyamory 338 likes like
Suzanne Collins
“Not like this. He wanted it to be real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
tags: fake, haymitch, katniss, love, marriage, peeta, proposal 337 likes like
Christopher Paolini
“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
tags: closeness, family, love 317 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
tags: life, love, meaning 307 likes like
Charles Frazier
“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words spilled out of him without prior composition. And this time he made no effort to clamp them off. He told her about the first time he had looked on the back of her neck as she sat in the church pew. Of the feeling that had never let go of him since. He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you are. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you. Nevertheless, over all those wasted years, he had held in his mind the wish to kiss her on the back of her neck, and now he had done it. There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
tags: grief, love, separation, war 267 likes like
Sarah Dessen
“The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.”
― Sarah Dessen
tags: love 206 likes like
Richelle Mead
“I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
tags: adrian-ivashkov, feelings, love, sydney-sage 203 likes like
Greg Behrendt
“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”
― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
tags: love, relationships 199 likes like
Cornel West
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public”
― Cornel West
tags: justice, love, society, wisdom 191 likes like
Michelle Hodkin
“I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
tags: love 190 likes like
Jane Austen
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: jane-austen, literature, love, northanger-abbey 188 likes like
Heather Brewer
“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”
― Heather Brewer, Ninth Grade Slays
tags: death, love, parents, vlad 185 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”
― Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
tags: hopeful, jodi-picoult, loss, love, memory, plain-truth, remember, sad, wish 184 likes like
Anthony de Mello
“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness
tags: awareness, happiness, love 181 likes like
Stephenie Meyer
“Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.”
― Stephenie Meyer
tags: bella, edward, love, midnight-sun 180 likes like
“But you're so busy changing the world
Just one smile can change all of mine”
― Jack Johnson
tags: change, couples, love, smile, song 179 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
tags: craving, desires, love, wants 178 likes like
Alexandra Potter
“...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.”
― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?
tags: love, romance 177 likes like
Richelle Mead
“One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.
Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
tags: commitment, death, dimitri-belikov, love 177 likes like
Emma Thompson
“Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
tags: emotions, fire, love, politeness 176 likes like
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love, and you shall be loved.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: love 175 likes like
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
tags: love, rainer-maria-rilke 175 likes like
Rumi
“When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.”
― Rumi
tags: corporeal-punishment, love, love-is-like-a-lawsuit, rumi 173 likes like
Jarod Kintz
“Love is like a forest, I think as I kill trees by squandering toilet paper while “decorating” my ex girlfriend’s front yard. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
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Lisa Kleypas
“The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her hand.
—should warn you that this letter will not be eloquent. However, it will be sincere, especially in light of the fact that you will never read it. I have felt these words like a weight in my chest, until I find myself amazed that a heart can go on beating under such a burden.
I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking. My love, you don't belong with a man like me. In the past I've done things you wouldn't approve of, and I've done them ten times over. I have led a life of immoderate sin. As it turns out, I'm just as immoderate in love. Worse, in fact.
I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you.
I want you under me. On your back.
I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it. Your arms and legs around me. Your mouth, open for my kisses. I need too much of you. A lifetime of nights spent between your thighs wouldn't be enough.
I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me.
If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.
You would say it's too soon to feel this way. You would ask how I could be so certain. But some things can't be measured by time. Ask me an hour from now. Ask me a month from now. A year, ten years, a lifetime. The way I love you will outlast every calendar, clock, and every toll of every bell that will ever be cast. If only you—
And there it stopped.”
― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas
tags: angst, hannah-appleton, love, love-letters, passion, rafe-bowman, romance 512 likes like
Carrie Underwood
“The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.”
― Carrie Underwood
tags: boys, carrie-underwood, dogs, love 404 likes like
Gerard Way
“Tears are words the heart can't express”
― Gerard Way
tags: definitions, life, love 362 likes like
Colleen Houck
“There are many different types of kisses. There’s a passionate kiss of farewell—like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can’t-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be—like with Superman and Lois Lane. There’s the first kiss—one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there’s the kiss of possession—which was how Ren kissed me now.
It went beyond passion, beyond desire. His kiss was full of longing, need, and love, like all those other kisses. But, it was also filled with promises and pledges, some of which seemed sweet and tender while others seemed dangerous and exciting. He was taking me over. Staking a claim.
He seized me as boldly as the tiger captured his prey. There was no escape. And I didn’t want to. I would have happily died in his clutches. I was his. And he made sure I knew it. My heart burst with a thousand beautiful blooms, all tiger lilies. And I knew with a certainty more powerful than anything I’d ever felt before that we belonged together. ”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest
tags: love, romance 362 likes like
Sophie Kinsella
“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?
tags: crush, love, teen 322 likes like
Jeanette Winterson
“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
tags: love 318 likes like
Andrew Davidson
“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
― Andrew Davidson
tags: distance, love 288 likes like
“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
tags: goodness, love 282 likes like
Stephenie Meyer
“Sometimes you have to learn to love what's good for you.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
tags: love 279 likes like
Rachel Caine
“In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.”
― Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule
tags: fear, love 243 likes like
Maggie Stiefvater
“I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.
I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.
The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.
Too close.
I couldn't stay away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
tags: love 227 likes like
Haruki Murakami
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
tags: forgetting, letting-go, life, life-lessons, love, memories, not-letting-go 217 likes like
Maggie Stiefvater
“What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
tags: love 215 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."
..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
― Jodi Picoult
tags: handle-with-care, love, picoult 213 likes like
Andrea Gibson
“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”
― Andrea Gibson
tags: love, poetry, relationships, romance 212 likes like
Diablo Cody
“He is the cheese to my macaroni.”
― Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script
tags: couples, love 201 likes like
Jonathan Tropper
“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”
― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
tags: hurt, love, pain, scars, true, true-love 199 likes like
Stanisław Lem
“On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny. So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going?
Must I go on living here then, among the objects we both had touched, in the air she had breathed? In the name of what? In the hope of her return? I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.”
― Stanisław Lem
tags: love, science-fiction, solaris 198 likes like
Jodi Picoult
“Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”
― Jodi Picoult
tags: constancy, everlasting-love, love 189 likes like
Kiera Cass
“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite
tags: history, love, tangled 188 likes like
Niall Horan
“If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.”
― Niall Horan
tags: dog, horan, lady, love, niall, nice, onedirection, sweet 182 likes like
Susan Fletcher
“Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?”
― Susan Fletcher, Eve Green
tags: love 181 likes like
Melissa Jensen
“sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”
― Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
tags: love, unrequited-love 180 likes like
Laini Taylor
“Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
tags: cats, love, yearning 178 likes like
Euripides
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays
tags: anger, bitterness, love 177 likes like
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon
tags: hope, love 177 likes like
أحمد خيري العمري
“من قال لك أن درب الجنة معبد بالورود؟”
― أحمد خيري العمري, إدرينالين
tags: change, faith, heaven, islam, life, love, wisdom 176 likes like
Richelle Mead
“Love fades. Mine has.”
― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
tags: dimitri, love, rose 175 likes like
Walter Benjamin
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
― Walter Benjamin
tags: hope, love 173 likes like
Richelle Mead
“Other people spoke, and I tried to keep up with the translations. All the stories were about Dimitri's kindness and strength of character. Even when not out battling the undead, Dimitri had always been there to help those who needed it. Almost everyone could recall sometime that Dimitri had stepped up to help others, going out of his way to do what was right, even in situations that could put him at risk. That was no surprise to me. Dimitri always did the right thing.
And it was that attitude that had made me love him so much. I had a similar nature. I too rushed in when others needed me, sometimes when I shouldn't have. Others called me crazy for it, but Dimitri had understood. He'd always understood me, and part of what we'd worked on was how to temper that impulsive need to run into danger with reason and calculation. I had a feeling no one else in this world would ever understand me like he did.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
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