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There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart? | Lisa Kleypas, It Happened One Autumn | adoration, devotion, love, soulmates |
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) | E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems | love, poetry |
His breath hitched, and he regarded me hungrily. “You’re playing with fire, you know that?” “That’s weird, considering you’re an ice prin—” I didn’t get any further, as Ash leaned in and kissed me. | Julie Kagawa, Winter's Passage | ash, love, meghan |
Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go. | Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber | love, marriage, romance, vows |
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. | Leo Buscaglia | love |
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer. | T.H. White, The Once and Future King | heartbreak, longing, love, pain, sorrow, unrequited-love |
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. | Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore | love, pain |
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. | John Lennon | attributed-no-source, love |
I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless. | Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell | adrian-ivashkov, love |
You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it. | Nicholas Sparks, Dear John | letter, love, romance |
You made me feel alive again. | Julie Kagawa, The Iron King | life, love |
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live. | C. JoyBell C. | inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, life, living, love, meaning-of-life, passion |
And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum. | Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels | city-of-fallen-angels, crazy, eric, funny, humor, love, teen, teenage-love |
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them. | Tom Stoppard, Arcadia | lady-croom, love |
That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us. | Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me | love, relationships, the-best-of-me |
The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came. | Jonathan Antin | dating-advice, inspirational, love |
Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are. | Anna Godbersen, The Luxe | advice, gentlemen, humor, love, wisdom |
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. | H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series | diplomacy, love, outrage |
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 | hurting, love, relationships |
When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart when that breaks it s completely silent. You would think as it s so important it would make the loudest noise in the whole world or even have some ... Read Moresort of ceremonious sound like the gong of a cymbal or the ringing of a bell. But it s silent and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain. If there is a noise it s internal. It screams and no one can hear it but you. It screams so loud your ears ring and your head aches. It trashes around in your chest like a great white shark caught in the sea it roars like a mother bear whose cub has been taken. That s what it looks like and that s what it sounds like a trashing panicking trapped great big beast roaring like a prisoner to its own emotions. But that s the thing about love no one is untouchable. | Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now | book, cecelia-ahernt, if-you-could-see-me-now, love |
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground | love |
Everybody is a main character to someone... | Amy Harmon, Making Faces | love |
He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose. | Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key | just-friends, lock-and-key, love |
A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart. | Shannon L. Alder | betrayal, break-ups, cheating, class, compassion, courtesy, gentleman, honor, ladies, leading-a-woman-on, love, manners, manning-up, men, mixed-signals, players, relationships, respect, respecting-others, respecting-women, true-gentlemen |
They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with."...As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. | Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth | calypso, cruel, fates, love, percy-jackson, punishment, regret |
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. | Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist | inspirational, love |
I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you...I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too...scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart... Even if it means breaking my own. | S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless | betrayal, denny-harris, hurt, love |
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. | Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet | love, poetry, space, trust |
Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future. | Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven | love, relationships |
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. | Nicholas Sparks | inspirational, love, optimism, possibilities |
Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart. | Christina Westover | christina-westover, inspiration, life, lily-sauvage, love, muse, past-relationships, relationships, unrequited-love |
I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived. | Neil Gaiman, Stardust | love, misery |
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. | Jim Henson | boys, broken-hearts, healing, love, time |
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain! | William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet | death, hate, love, poetry, shakespeare |
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work. | Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie | family, love |
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. | Kahlil Gibran | love |
Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. | C. JoyBell C. | belong, belonging, changing, growing, inspirational, inspirational-love, inspirational-love-quotes, inspirational-quotes, learning, learning-the-truth, life-and-learning, life-and-living, love, people, person |
All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow. | Nicholas Sparks | hope, love |
His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn't sure she was breathing herself. She slid her own hand across the bedsheet, just far enough that their fingers touched-so lightly that she would have probably hardly been aware of it had she been touching anyone but Jace; as it was, the nerve endings in her fingertips pricked softly, as if she were holding them over a low flame. She felt him tense beside her and then relax. He had shut his eyes, and his lashes cast fine shadows against the curve of his cheekbones. His mouth curled into a smile as if he sensed her watching him, and she wondered how he would look in the morning, with his hair messed and sleep circles under his eyes. Despite everything, the thought gave her a jolt of happiness.She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. | Cassandra Clare, City of Glass | clary-fray, jace-and-clary, jace-wayland, love |
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. | Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart | eyes, god, knowledge, love, medieval, mysticism, religious-experience, seeing, understanding, vision |
I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes. | Marilyn Monroe, My Story | love, marilyn-monroe, my-story |
I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is. | Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places | happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts |
Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will... you'll never get over him. You're going to wake up one day and realize what you've done, and you're going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life. | Jamie McGuire, Providence | breakup, love, moving-on, romance, young-adult |
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. | Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha | admiration, hermann-hesse, love, philosophy, respect, world |
Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me | Jonathan Safran Foer | emotion, love |
And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind. | Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets | love |
You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins. | J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never | andrew-parrish, letter, love |
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? | Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince | depressing, heartbreak, jealousy, love, sadness, wonder |
Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love? | John Green, The Fault in Our Stars | keep, love, promises, the-fault-in-our-stars, truth |
Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie. | Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction | attraction, carlos, kiara, love, true-love |
Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known. | Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me | bridgerton, love, marriage |
Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart. | Kiera Cass, The Elite | history, love, tangled |
I knew I loved you before I met youI think I dreamed you into lifeI knew I loved you before I met youI have been waiting all my life | Savage Garden | destiny, devotion, love |
When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already. | Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road | kiss, love |
I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.Maybe we’re from the same star. | Emery Allen | love, soul, soulmates, star |
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time. | Brian Andreas | adoration, love, relationships, story-people |
You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much. | James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports | fang, humor, love, love-struck, max, maxride |
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) | William Goldman, The Princess Bride | fiction, humor, love |
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world. | Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story | hope, love |
He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity. | Ellen Schreiber, Vampire Kisses | devotion, love, true-love |
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am. | Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being | love |
Each time you happen to me all over again. | Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence | awe, love |
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. | Stephenie Meyer, Twilight | death, love, self-sacrifice |
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. | Coco Chanel | art, creativity, life, love, monotony, passion, time, variety, work |
I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together. | Emily Brontë | love, obsession |
Make me into anything, but just love me. | Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters | love |
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. | Mother Teresa | inspirational, love, smile |
To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20) | Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty | beautiful, beauty, flawed, imperfect, love, self-love, soul |
What I cannot love, I overlook. | Anaïs Nin | forgiveness, love, sanity |
Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back. | Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire | clace, clary-fray, herondale, jace, love, shadowhunters |
A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain. | Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley | love, unappreciated, unrequited-love, vain |
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. | Graham Greene, The End of the Affair | being-loved, love |
Unending LoveI seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...In life after life, in age after age, forever.My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,In life after life, in age after age, forever.Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,It's ancient tale of being apart or together.As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.You become an image of what is remembered forever.You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.At the heart of time, love of one for another.We have played along side millions of lovers,Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,the distressful tears of farewell,Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in youThe love of all man's days both past and forever:Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -And the songs of every poet past and forever. | Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems | love, reincarnation, soulmates |
No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John | Nicholas Sparks, Dear John | dear-john, love, nicholas-sparks |
You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. The nights belong to us. Everything we do is secret. Nothing we do will ever be understood; we will be feared and kept well away from. It will be the stuff of legend, endless discussion and limitless inspiration for the brave of heart. It’s you and me in this room, on this floor. Beyond life, beyond morality. We are gleaming animals painted in moonlit sweat glow. Our eyes turn to jewels and everything we do is an example of spontaneous perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. Now you’re here and everything we touch explodes, bursts into bloom or burns to ash. History atomizes and negates itself with our every shared breath. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know. | Henry Rollins | beauty, love, you |
This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection. | Ellen Hopkins | connection, love |
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. | Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ | love, true-love |
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,I have forgotten, and what arms have lainUnder my head till morning, but the rainIs full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sighUpon the glass and listen for reply,And in my heart there stirs a quiet painFor unremembered lads that not againWill turn to me at midnight with a cry.Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:I cannot say what loves have come and gone,I only know that summer sang in meA little while, that in me sings no more. | Edna St. Vincent Millay | love, poetry |
Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving. When the child leaves home, when the husband or wife leaves for a long period of time or for good, when the beloved friend departs to another country or dies … the pain of the leaving can tear us apart.Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | leaving, love, pain |
The way you're singing in your sleepThe way you look before you leapThe strange illusions that you keepYou don't knowBut I'm noticingThe way your touch turns into arcsThe way you slide into the darkThe beating of my open heartYou don't knowBut I'm noticing | David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist | love |
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours. | Charles Caleb Colton | adoration, advice, love, women |
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 | jealousy, love, romance |
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. | Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave | humor, love |
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. | Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus | ecstasy, love, passion, sexuality |
Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to. | Julianne Moore | love, trust |
What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that Iwasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal waswhat I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, butalso by, as I once believed, a true friend. | Danka V., The Unchosen Life | betrayal, cheating, love |
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground. | Andrea Gibson | autumn, love |
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you. | Paul McCartney | beatles, kiss, love, miss-you, music, song-lyrics, tomorrow |
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not. | David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List | friends, love, self |
He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. | W.H. Auden, Collected Poems | death, love, poetry |
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt. | Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park | love, romance |
That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too. | Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants | love, missing |
One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. | Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush | love, nora, patch, search |
That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking. | Adriana Trigiani, Very Valentine | love, romance |
When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them. | Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood | friendship, joy, love, pain |
When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances. | Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye | love, relationships |
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. | Harlan Coben | love, memorable |
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 | desire, gay, love, m-m, male-male, obsession |
Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words. | Rick Riordan, The House of Hades | annabeth-chase, love, percy-jackson |
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. | Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows | love, sex, women |
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