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15,000 CÂU HAY CỦA 50 NHÀ VĂN NỔI TIẾNG NHẤT ANH, MỸ (15,000 MARVELLOUS SENTENCES FROM 100 BEST WRITERS) “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” ― Roald Dahl “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits “Don't gobblefunk around with words.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: crazy, funny, words 1931 likes Like “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: love 1558 likes Like “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 1388 likes Like “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” ― Roald Dahl tags: books, kids, readers, reading 1338 likes Like “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: books, literature, reading, words 1164 likes Like “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: books, literature, reading, words 1025 likes Like “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” ― Roald Dahl 903 likes Like “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ― Roald Dahl tags: happy, inspirational 895 likes Like “Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 871 likes Like “Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.” ― Roald Dahl tags: childhood, children, humor 835 likes Like “Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!” ― Roald Dahl tags: food, humor 753 likes Like “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it” ― Roald Dahl tags: writing 730 likes Like “I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.” ― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox 726 likes Like “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” ― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald tags: enthusiasm, inspirational, passion, passionate-living 652 likes Like “I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: humor 584 likes Like “Two rights don't equal a left.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 553 likes Like “Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted." Charlie Bucket: "What happened?" Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 486 likes Like “We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.” ― Roald Dahl 450 likes Like “The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 416 likes Like “It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: children, parents 372 likes Like “You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 363 likes Like “Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.” ― Roald Dahl 355 likes Like “A little magic can take you a long way.” ― Roald Dahl 333 likes Like “I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: reading 330 likes Like “I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World “You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: dreaming, imagination, matilda 280 likes Like “Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 269 likes Like “If you are good life is good.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: humor 259 likes Like “Life is more fun if you play games.” ― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald tags: enjoyment, fun, games, life, play 249 likes Like “All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 245 likes Like “We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood 235 likes Like “Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 216 likes Like “I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 215 likes Like “I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: childhood 210 likes Like “Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 200 likes Like “She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 197 likes Like “I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: greed, role-models 192 likes Like “The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or better still, just don't install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we've been, We've watched them gaping at the screen. They loll and slop and lounge about, And stare until their eyes pop out. (Last week in someone's place we saw A dozen eyeballs on the floor.) They sit and stare and stare and sit Until they're hypnotised by it, Until they're absolutely drunk With all that shocking ghastly junk. Oh yes, we know it keeps them still, They don't climb out the window sill, They never fight or kick or punch, They leave you free to cook the lunch And wash the dishes in the sink -- But did you ever stop to think, To wonder just exactly what This does to your beloved tot? IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD! IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND! HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE! HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE! HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES! 'All right!' you'll cry. 'All right!' you'll say, 'But if we take the set away, What shall we do to entertain Our darling children? Please explain!' We'll answer this by asking you, 'What used the darling ones to do? 'How used they keep themselves contented Before this monster was invented?' Have you forgotten? Don't you know? We'll say it very loud and slow: THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ, AND READ and READ, and then proceed To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks! One half their lives was reading books! The nursery shelves held books galore! Books cluttered up the nursery floor! And in the bedroom, by the bed, More books were waiting to be read! Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales And treasure isles, and distant shores Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars, And pirates wearing purple pants, And sailing ships and elephants, And cannibals crouching 'round the pot, Stirring away at something hot. (It smells so good, what can it be? Good gracious, it's Penelope.) The younger ones had Beatrix Potter With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter, And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland, And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and- Just How The Camel Got His Hump, And How the Monkey Lost His Rump, And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul, There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole- Oh, books, what books they used to know, Those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books, Ignoring all the dirty looks, The screams and yells, the bites and kicks, And children hitting you with sticks- Fear not, because we promise you That, in about a week or two Of having nothing else to do, They'll now begin to feel the need Of having something to read. And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy! You watch the slowly growing joy That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen They'll wonder what they'd ever seen In that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen! And later, each and every kid Will love you more for what you did.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 189 likes Like “Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 178 likes Like “What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 177 likes Like “Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.” ― Roald Dahl tags: philosophical 172 likes Like “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.” ― Roald Dahl tags: matilda-movie 172 likes Like “When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!” ― Roald Dahl 155 likes Like “And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 146 likes Like “When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things, and you get the first view of what you see and you write it down. Then you walk a bit further, maybe up onto the top of a hill, and you see something else. Then you write that and you go on like that, day after day, getting different views of the same landscape really. The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.” ― Roald Dahl tags: on-writing-a-book 141 likes Like “I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach tags: humor 138 likes Like “A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 130 likes Like “Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 129 likes Like “But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 127 likes Like “Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.” ― Roald Dahl 121 likes Like “I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 121 likes Like “My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: roald-dahl, witches 120 likes Like “Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 118 likes Like “The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl” ― Roald Dahl 118 likes Like “There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...” ― Roald Dahl “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.” ― Roald Dahl 113 likes Like “A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: big, children-s, farting, friendly, gas, giant, humor, roald-dahl, the-bfg 108 likes Like “The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” ― Roald Dahl tags: writing 102 likes Like “My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 101 likes Like “I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.” ― Roald Dahl tags: humour 91 likes Like “We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please now and then Come and see us again, The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. "All you do is to look At a page in this book Because that’s where we always will be. No book ever ends When it’s full of your friends The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.” ― Roald Dahl tags: the-giraffe-and-the-pelly-and-me 89 likes Like “All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.” ― Roald Dahl, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me 89 likes Like “I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.” ― Roald Dahl, Going Solo 89 likes Like “I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.” ― Roald Dahl tags: happiness, life, love, people 87 likes Like “Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 81 likes Like “If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.” ― Roald Dahl 78 likes Like “The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: belief, humour 78 likes Like “When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood 75 likes Like “Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 66 likes Like “It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself” ― Roald Dahl tags: happy, lovely 65 likes Like “From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her. She was not quite tall enough to reach things around in the kitchen, but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted. Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it. Occasionally she made Bovril or Ovaltine. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She traveled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 64 likes Like “Badger: The cuss you are. Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?” ― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox 64 likes Like “I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.” ― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox 63 likes Like “Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.” ― Roald Dahl tags: inspirational 63 likes Like “An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood 59 likes Like “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” ― Roald Dahl tags: books 58 likes Like “Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: oompa-loompas 54 likes Like “You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: insults 54 likes Like “The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood tags: drinking, writing, writing-life 53 likes Like “Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 53 likes Like “The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 52 likes Like “Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 52 likes Like “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” ― Roald Dahl 52 likes Like “Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a second?" I did not," Miss Honey said smiling. "How absolutely fascinating. Where did you read that?" In a book from the library," Matilda said. "And that means it goes so fast that you can't even hear the separate beats. It must sound like a buzz." It must," Miss Honey said.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda “It wasn't raindrops at all. It was a great solid mass of water that might have been a lake or a whole ocean dropping out of the sky on top of them, and down it came, down and down and down, crashing first onto the seagulls and then onto the peach itself, while the poor travelers shrieked with fear and groped around frantically for something to catch hold of- the peach stem, the silk strings, anything they could find- and all the time the water came pouring and roaring down upon them, bouncing and smashing and sloshing and slashing and swashing and swirling and surging and whirling and gurgling and gushing and rushing and rushing, and it was like being pinned down underneath the biggest waterfall in the world and not being able to get out.” ― Roald Dahl tags: children-novel, humor, literacy 51 likes Like “Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes tags: snow-white 48 likes Like “We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 47 likes Like “I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 47 likes Like “England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn't read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew all this, but in the end One question drove him round the bend: He simply couldn't puzzle out What LIFE was really all about. What was the reason for his birth? Why was he placed upon this earth? His giant brain went round and round. Alas, no answer could be found. Till suddenly one wondrous night. All in a flash he saw the light. He jumped up like a ballet dancer And yelled, "By gum, I've got the answer!" "They want my bacon slice by slice "To sell at a tremendous price! "They want my tender juicy chops "To put in all the butcher's shops! "They want my pork to make a roast "And that's the part'll cost the most! "They want my sausages in strings! "They even want my chitterlings! "The butcher's shop! The carving knife! "That is the reason for my life!" Such thoughts as these are not designed To give a pig great piece of mind. Next morning, in comes Farmer Bland, A pail of pigswill in his hand, And piggy with a mighty roar, Bashes the farmer to the floor… Now comes the rather grizzly bit So let's not make too much of it, Except that you must understand That Piggy did eat Farmer Bland, He ate him up from head to toe, Chewing the pieces nice and slow. It took an hour to reach the feet, Because there was so much to eat, And when he finished, Pig, of course, Felt absolutely no remorse. Slowly he scratched his brainy head And with a little smile he said, "I had a fairly powerful hunch "That he might have me for his lunch. "And so, because I feared the worst, "I thought I'd better eat him first.” ― Roald Dahl tags: humour, the-pig 46 likes Like “Mr Willy Wonka can make marshmallows that taste of violets, and rich caramels that change colour every ten seconds as you suck them, and little feathery sweets that melt away deliciously the moment you put them between your lips. He can make chewing-gum that never loses its taste, and sugar balloons that you can blow up to enormous sizes before you pop them with a pin and gobble them up. And, by a most secret method, he can make lovely blue birds' eggs with black spots on them, and when you put one of these in your mouth, it gradually gets smaller and smaller until suddenly there is nothing left except a tiny little DARKRED sugary baby bird sitting on the tip of your tongue.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 46 likes Like “Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds. My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads! How could I marry anyone Who does that sort of thing for fun? The Prince cried, "Who's this dirty slut? Off with her nut! Off with her nut!” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes tags: cinderella 45 likes Like “All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 45 likes Like “I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.” ― Roald Dahl 42 likes Like “A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky..." "The name is Honey," Miss Honey said. "Now look at me," Mrs Wormwood said. "Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 42 likes Like “One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a year, is how to keep the momentum going. It is the same with a young person writing an essay. They have got to write four or five or six pages. But when you are writing it for a year, you go away and you have to come back. I never come back to a blank page; I always finish about halfway through. To be confronted with a blank page is not very nice. But Hemingway, a great American writer, taught me the finest trick when you are doing a long book, which is, he simply said in his own words, “When you are going good, stop writing.” And that means that if everything’s going well and you know exactly where the end of the chapter’s going to go and you know just what the people are going to do, you don’t go on writing and writing until you come to the end of it, because when you do, then you say, well, where am I going to go next? And you get up and you walk away and you don’t want to come back because you don’t know where you want to go. But if you stop when you are going good, as Hemingway said…then you know what you are going to say next. You make yourself stop, put your pencil down and everything, and you walk away. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next and that’s lovely and you have to try and do that. Every time, every day all the way through the year. If you stop when you are stuck, then you are in trouble!” ― Roald Dahl 40 likes Like “I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 39 likes Like “There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 39 likes Like “There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said. ‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked. ‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 39 likes Like “I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: men, mrs-wormwood 38 likes Like “Two wrongs don't make a right.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 38 likes Like “EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 38 likes Like “The snozberries taste like snozberries!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: funny-lol 37 likes Like “...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.” ― Roald Dahl, My Year tags: children, growth, risk 37 likes Like “There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 36 likes Like “Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 35 likes Like “In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 35 likes Like “The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 35 likes Like “Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More tags: attitude, endurance, hero, motivational, not-giving-up, spirit 34 likes Like “Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...” ― Roald Dahl tags: death-of-an-old, old-man 34 likes Like “Obscurity is never a virtue.” ― Roald Dahl tags: storyteller 33 likes Like “However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 33 likes Like “There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 32 likes Like “You is getting nosier than a parker.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: books, humor 31 likes Like “The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!" And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes “I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: inspirational 30 likes Like “When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.” ― Roald Dahl 28 likes Like “Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 28 likes Like “my candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood tags: inspirational 27 likes Like “It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: impossible, magic, nothing-is-impossible 27 likes Like “Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: best-lollies, wonka-inventions 27 likes Like “I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.” ― Roald Dahl, Someone Like You 25 likes Like “Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: speech, words 24 likes Like “What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 24 likes Like “There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.” ― Roald Dahl, The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl tags: comedy, funny, humor, humour 23 likes Like “You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: kids, teaching 23 likes Like “Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 22 likes Like “Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.” ― Roald Dahl tags: storyteller 21 likes Like “... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.” ― Roald Dahl, Switch Bitch 21 likes Like “We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 21 likes Like “Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: children-s-books, matilda, roald-dahl 19 likes Like “I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.” ― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox 18 likes Like “What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!” ― Roald Dahl, Going Solo 18 likes Like “With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: inspirational, intelligent, matilda, roald-dahl, shocking 18 likes Like “Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: bfg 18 likes Like “Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: humor 17 likes Like “let your love out” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: realistic 17 likes Like “It is almost worth going away because it's so lovely coming back.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood 17 likes Like “There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 17 likes Like “Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 17 likes Like “And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First, there is the side he displays to the public, that of an ordinary person like anyone else, a person who does ordinary things and speaks ordinary language. Second, there is the secret side, which comes out in him only after he has closed the door of his workroom and is completely alone. It is then that he slips into another world altogether, a world where his imagination takes over and he finds himself actually living in the places he is writing about at that moment. I myself, if you want to know, fall into a kind of trance, and everything around me disappears. I see only the point of my pencil moving over the paper, and quite often two hours go by as though they were a couple of seconds.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 16 likes Like “The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 16 likes Like “Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: matildia, roald-dahl 16 likes Like “Dreams is full of mystery and magic . . . . Do not try to understand them.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 16 likes Like “Matilda longed for her parents to be good and loving and understanding and honourable and intelligent. The fact that they were none of these things was something she had to put up with. It was not easy to do so. But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable. Being very small and very young, the only power Matilda had over anyone in her family was brain-power. For sheer cleverness she could run rings around them all. But the fact remained that any five-year-old girl in any family was always obliged to do as she was told, however asinine the orders might be.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda “So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 16 likes Like “For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More tags: inspirational 15 likes Like “Do you wonder then that this man’s behaviour used to puzzle me tremendously? He was an ordinary clergyman at that time as well as being Headmaster, and I would sit in the dim light of the school chapel and listen to him preaching about the Lamb of God and about Mercy and Forgiveness and all the rest of it and my young mind would become totally confused. I knew very well that only the night before this preacher had shown neither Forgiveness nor Mercy in flogging some small boy who had broken the rules. So what was it all about? I used to ask myself. Did they preach one thing and practise another, these men of God? And if someone had told me at the time that this flogging clergyman was one day to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, I would never have believed it. It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood 15 likes Like “I like enthusiasts of any kind.” ― Roald Dahl, My Year 15 likes Like “I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World tags: witty-and-realistic 15 likes Like “A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY!" - Danny, the champion of the world.” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World 15 likes Like “You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: humour, roald-dahl, writing 15 likes Like “We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: contentment, happiness, luck 15 likes Like “Mice, I felt pretty certain, all like each other. People don't.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 15 likes Like “Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach tags: city, dreams, journeyss, lights 14 likes Like “We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 14 likes Like “The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 14 likes Like “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it” ― Roald Dahl 14 likes Like “A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World tags: childhood, parenting 13 likes Like “Sometimes, on a very clear night,’ the BFG said, ‘and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction’ – and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling – ‘if I is swiggling them like this and the night is very clear, I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.’ A queer little shiver passed through Sophie’s body. She sat very quiet, waiting for more.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 13 likes Like “I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemingway e in India con Kipling. Girava il mondo restando seduta nella sua stanza, in un villaggio inglese.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: conrad, hemingway, kipling, leggere, libri, matilda, matilde, roald-dahl 13 likes Like “Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 13 likes Like “So what I want to know is this. How often do all these hairy-faced men wash their faces? It is only once a week, like us, on Sunday nights? And do they shampoo it? Do they use a hair-dryer? Do they rub hair-tonic in to stop their faces from going bald? Do they go to a barber to have their hairy faces cut and trimmed or do they do it themselves in front of the bathroom mirror with nail-scissors?” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 13 likes Like “You are still yourself in everything except your appearance. You've still got your own mind and your own brain and your own voice, and thank goodness for that.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 13 likes Like “These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 12 likes Like “It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 12 likes Like “I is not understanding human beans at all,’ the BFG said. ‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’ ‘Right,’ Sophie said. ‘But human beans is squishing each other all the time,’ the BFG said. ‘They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other’s heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.’ He was right. Of course he was right and Sophie knew it. She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 12 likes Like “We may see a Creature with forty-nine heads Who lives in the desolate snow, And whenever he catches a cold (which he dreads) He has forty-nine noses to blow. 'We may see the venomous Pink-Spotted Scrunch Who can chew up a man with one bite. It likes to eat five of them roasted for lunch And eighteen for its supper at night. 'We may see a Dragon, and nobody knows That we won't see a Unicorn there. We may see a terrible Monster with toes Growing out of the tufts of his hair. 'We may see the sweet little Biddy-Bright Hen So playful, so kind and well-bred; And such beautiful eggs! You just boil them and then They explode and they blow off your head. 'A Gnu and a Gnocerous surely you'll see And that gnormous and gnorrible Gnat Whose sting when it stings you goes in at the knee And comes out through the top of your hat. 'We may even get lost and be frozen by frost. We may die in an earthquake or tremor. Or nastier still, we may even be tossed On the horns of a furious Dilemma. 'But who cares! Let us go from this horrible hill! Let us roll! Let us bowl! Let us plunge! Let's go rolling and bowling and spinning until We're away from old Spiker and Sponge!” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach tags: adventure, imagination, james-and-the-giant-peach, monsters, roald-dahl 12 likes Like “lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say” ― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine 12 likes Like “Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.” ― Roald Dahl, The Great Automatic Grammatizator And Other Stories tags: last-line, last-lines, last-sentence, last-words 12 likes Like “Is she the only one at fault? For though she’s spoiled, and dreadfully so, A girl can’t spoil herself, you know. Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed? Who pandered to her every need? Who turned her into such a brat? Who are the culprits? Who did that? Alas! You needn’t look so far To find out who these sinners are. They are (and this is very sad) Her loving parents, MUM and DAD. And that is why we’re glad they fell Into the garbage chute as well.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 12 likes Like “You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?” ― Roald Dahl tags: matilda 12 likes Like “Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 12 likes Like “The books gave Matilda a comforting message: You are not alone." -Matilda” ― Roald Dahl 12 likes Like “Don’t argue, my dear child, please don’t argue!” cried Mr. Wonka. “It’s such a waste of precious time!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory “Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 11 likes Like “You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. You went there to work. Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous anymore.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood tags: travel 11 likes Like “Never grow up...always down.” ― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine 11 likes Like “. . . I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 11 likes Like “So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: books, literature, reading 11 likes Like “Oh, books, what books they used to know, Those children living long ago! So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 10 likes Like “...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.” ― Roald Dahl, My Year 10 likes Like “What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: matilda 10 likes Like “Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: giants, human-beans 10 likes Like “He turned and reached behind him for the chocolate bar, then he turned back again and handed it to Charlie. Charlie grabbed it and quickly tore off the wrapper and took an enormous bite. Then he took another…and another…and oh, the joy of being able to cram large pieces of something sweet and solid into one's mouth! The sheer blissful joy of being able to fill one's mouth with rich solid food! 'You look like you wanted that one, sonny,' the shopkeeper said pleasantly. Charlie nodded, his mouth bulging with chocolate.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 10 likes Like “Listening to my father during those early years, I began to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” ― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald tags: inspirational, life 10 likes Like “Yesterday," he said, "we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumbers. Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 10 likes Like “Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!” ― Roald Dahl, The Great Automatic Grammatizator And Other Stories tags: grammar 10 likes Like “Then there was a hard brown lozenge called the Tonsil Tickler. The Tonsil Tickler tasted and smelled very strongly of chloroform. We had not the slightest doubt that these things were saturated in the dreaded anaesthetic which, as Thwaites had many times pointed out to us, could put you to sleep for hours at a stretch. "If my father has to saw off somebody's leg," he said, "he pours chloroform on to a pad and the person sniffs it and goes to sleep and my father saws his leg off without him even feeling it." "But why do they put it into sweets and sell them to us?" we asked him. You might think a question like this would have baffled Thwaites. But Thwaites was never baffled. "My father says Tonsil Ticklers were invented for dangerous prisoners in jail," he said. "They give them one with each meal and the chloroform makes them sleepy and stops them rioting." "Yes," we said, "but why sell them to children?" "It's a plot," Thwaites said. "A grown-up plot to keep us quiet.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood 9 likes Like “When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk” ― Roald Dahl 9 likes Like “A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No silly hood upon her head. She said, 'Hello, and do please note My lovely furry wolfskin coat.” ― Roald Dahl tags: poetry, red-riding-hood-and-the-wolf 9 likes Like “It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 9 likes Like “Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don’t understand, Matilda said to her. 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that,' Mrs Phelps said . 'And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 8 likes Like “An idiotic vitch like you Must rrroast upon the barbecue!” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: humor 8 likes Like “Good day, Sir.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: chocolate-factory 8 likes Like “She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 8 likes Like “Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” And at the same time, his long bony body rose up out of the bed and his bowl of soup went flying into the face of Grandma Josephine, and in one fantastic leap, this old fellow of ninety-six and a half, who hadn’t been out of bed these last twenty years, jumped on to the floor and started doing a dance of victory in his pajamas.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 8 likes Like “There’s no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going! There’s no knowing where they’re rowing, Or which way the river’s flowing! Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be growing, For the rowers keep on rowing, And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing. . . .” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 8 likes Like “I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, Just as long as he finishes the book.” ― Roald Dahl 8 likes Like “I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 8 likes Like “On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by. 'Can you hear him, Danny?' 'Yes,' I said, 'That is a bullfrog calling to his wife. He does it by blowing out his dewlap and letting it go with a burp.' 'What is a dewlap?' I asked. 'It's the loose skin on his throat. He can blow it up just like a balloon.' 'What happens when his wife hears him?' 'She goes hopping over to him. She is very happy to have been invited. But I'll tell you something very funny about the old bullfrog. He often becomes so pleased with the sound of his own voice that his wife has to nudge him several times before he'll stop his burping and turn round to hug her.' That made me laugh. 'Dont laugh too loud,' he said, twinkling at me with his eyes. 'We men are not so very different from the bullfrog.” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World 7 likes Like “I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 7 likes Like “Sophie took the book out of his hand. ‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ she read aloud. ‘By Dahl’s Chickens,’ the BFG said. ‘By who?’ Sophie said.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 7 likes Like “You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator tags: what-if, what-ifs 7 likes Like “This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda “You chose books. I chose looks.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: dahl, matilda, roald 7 likes Like “There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 7 likes Like “If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 7 likes Like “The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. It is almost a shock. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze… a person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” ― Roald Dahl 7 likes Like “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 7 likes Like “If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: nightmares, terrifying 6 likes Like “What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits tags: humor 6 likes Like “I’m afraid the camera got smashed against the side of the Space Hotel, Mr. President,” Shuckworth replied. The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 6 likes Like “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.” ― Roald Dahl tags: fools, freedom 6 likes Like “A good plot is like a dream.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 6 likes Like “Everybody was feeling happy now. The sun was shining brightly out of a soft blue sky and the day was calm. The giant peach, with the sunlight glinting on its side, was like a massive golden ball sailing upon a silver sea.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 6 likes Like “If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it.” ― Roald Dahl 6 likes Like “We don't hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said. "You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 6 likes Like “Round the world and home again That's the sailor's way Faster faster, faster faster There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing Is a hurricane a–blowing Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a–glowing Is the grisly reaper mowing Yes, the danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing.” ― Roald Dahl 6 likes Like “the world is a scary place for such a small child” ― Roald Dahl, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me 6 likes Like “Being very small and very young, the only power Matilda had over anyone in her family was brain-power.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 5 likes Like “Shakespeare, daddy.” “Was he brainy?” “Very, daddy.” “He had masses of hair, did he?” “He was bald, daddy.” To which the father had snapped, “If you can’t talk sense then shut up.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 5 likes Like “Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy-hum music.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 5 likes Like “I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original thinking to do. The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. It is almost a shock. The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith, hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood tags: writer, writing 5 likes Like “How long does a mouse live?" "Ah," she said. "I've been waiting for you to ask me that." There was a silence. She sat there smoking away and gazing at the fire. "Well," I said. "How long do we live, us mice?" "I have been reading about mice," she said. "I have been trying to find out everything I can about them." "Go on then, Grandmamma. Why don't you tell me?" "If you really want to know," she said, "I'm afraid a mouse doesn't live for a very long time." "How long?" I asked. "Well, an ordinary mouse only lives for about three years," she said. "But you are not an ordinary mouse. You are a mouse-person, and that is a very different matter." "How different?" I asked. "How long does a mouse-person live, Grandmamma?" "Longer," she said. "Much longer." "A mouse-person will almost certainly live for three times as long as an ordinary mouse," my grandmother said. "About nine years." "Good!" I cried. "That's great! It's the best news I've ever had!" "Why do you say that?" she asked, surprised. "Because I would never want to live longer than you," I said. "I couldn't stand being looked after by anybody else." There was a short silence. She had a way of fondling me behind the ears with the tip of one finger. It felt lovely. "How old are you, Grandmamma?" I asked. "I'm eighty-six," she said. "Will you live another eight or nine years?" "I might," she said. "With a bit of luck." "You've got to," I said. "Because by then I'll be a very old mouse and you'll be a very old grandmother and soon after that we'll both die together." "That would be perfect," she said.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 5 likes Like “Don't worry,' he said. 'So long as the facts are there, I can write the story. But please,' he added, 'let me have plenty of detail. That's what counts in our business, tiny little details, like you had a broken shoelace on your left shoe, or a fly settled on the rim of your glasses at lunch, or the man you were talking to had a broken front tooth...” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 5 likes Like “I think the reason I do not want to die is because of the things I hope will happen. Yes, that's right. I'm sure that's right. Point a revolver at a tramp, at a wet shivering tramp on the side of the road and say, "I'm going to shoot you", and he will cry, "Don't shoot. Please don't shoot." The tramp clings to life because of the things he hopes will happen.” ― Roald Dahl, The Hitch-Hiker and Other Short Stories 5 likes Like “If she's a lady, I'm a vernicious knid. (Eddie Albert in Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory)” ― Roald Dahl 5 likes Like “For whipping cream, of course. How can you whip cream without whips?” ― Roald Dahl 5 likes Like “We are now about to visit the most marvelous places and see the most wonderful things!” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 5 likes Like “She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 5 likes Like “Mary Welland was certainly lovely. She was gentle and kind. She remained my friend all the time I was in hospital. But there is a world of difference falling in love with a voice and remaining in love with a person you can see. From the moment I opened my eyes, Mary became a human instead of a dream and my passion evaporated.” ― Roald Dahl, Going Solo tags: adventures, autobiography, love, war 5 likes Like “there are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First, there is the side he displays to the public, that of an ordinary person like anyone else, a person who does ordinary things and speaks an ordinary language. Second, there is the secret side, which comes out in him only after he has closed the door of his workroom and is completely alone. It is then that he slips into another world altogether, a world where his imagination takes over and he finds himself actually living in the places he is writing about at that moment.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 4 likes Like “In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 4 likes Like “So please oh please we beg and pray Go throw your TV set away And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall Then fill the shelves with lots of books...” ― Roald Dahl “THEY . . . USED . . . TO . . . READ! They’d READ and READ, AND READ and READ, and then proceed To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 4 likes Like “Aren't I going back to England?" "No," she said. "I Could never do that. Heaven shall take my soul, but Norway shall keep my bones".” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 4 likes Like “The very rich are enormously resentful of bad weather. It is the one discomfort that their money cannot do anything about.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 4 likes Like “A newt, she decided, was a useful thing to have around.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 4 likes Like “But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It’s right here. You’ve just finished reading it.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 4 likes Like “you should be able to make a scene come alive in the reader’s mind. Not everybody has this ability. It is a gift, and you either have it or you don’t.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 4 likes Like “Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’ ‘I agree, Grandmamma.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: baths, children, dangerous, grandmother, habits 4 likes Like “as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice,” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 4 likes Like “It doesn't matter who you are or what you like so long as somebody loves you” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 4 likes Like “What’s happened?” screamed Mrs. Twit. They stood in the middle of the room, looking up. All the furniture, the big table, the chairs, the sofa, the lamps, the little side tables, the cabinet with bottles of beer in it, the ornaments, the electric heater, the carpet, everything was stuck upside down to the ceiling. The pictures were upside down on the walls. And the floor they were standing on was absolutely bare. What’s more, it had been painted white to look like the ceiling.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 4 likes Like “Take a bite and I am positive you will be shouting out oh how scrumdiddlyumptious this wonderveg is!” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 4 likes Like “Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. Do any of us children, she wondered, ever stop to ask ourselves where our teachers go when school is over for the day? Do we wonder if they live alone, or if there is a mother at home or a sister or a husband?” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 4 likes Like “By sticking out his tongue and curling it sideways to explore the hairy jungle around his mouth, he was always able to find a tasty morsel here and there to nibble on.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 4 likes Like “The next day she carried her secret weapon to school in her satchel. She was tingling with excitement. She was longing to tell matilda about her plan of battle. In fact, she wanted to tell the whole class. But she finally decided to tell nobody. It was better that way, because then no one, even when put under the most severe torture, would be able to name her as a culprit.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: lavender 4 likes Like “Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG tags: inspirational-humor 4 likes Like “She sat there majestic in her armchair, filling every inch of it. Not even a mouse could have squeezed in to sit beside her.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 3 likes Like “I bambini non sono seri come gli adulti, e ridono volentieri.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 3 likes Like “Sentipede!” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 3 likes Like “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 3 likes Like “What a nice child she is, Miss Honey thought. I don’t care what her father said about her, she seems very quiet and gentle to me. And not a bit stuck up in spite of her brilliance.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 3 likes Like “I didn’t know which direction I was going in. I just went on walking and calling out, walking and calling; and each time I called, I would stop and listen. But no answer came.” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World 3 likes Like “And the money came rolling into the pockets of the two greedy aunts. But while all this excitement was going on outside, poor James was forced to stay locked in his bedroom, peeping through the bars of his window at the crowds below. “The disgusting little brute will only get in everyone’s way if we let him wander about,” Aunt Spiker had said early that morning. “Oh, please!” he had begged. “I haven’t met any other children for years and years and there are going to be lots of them down there for me to play with. And perhaps I could help you with the tickets.” “Cut it out!” Aunt Sponge had snapped. “Your Aunt Spiker and I are about to become millionaires, and the last thing we want is the likes of you messing things up and getting in the way.” Later, when the evening of the first day came and the people had all gone home, the aunts unlocked James’s door and ordered him to go outside and pick up all the banana skins and orange peel and bits of paper that the crowd had left behind. “Could I please have something to eat first?” he asked. “I haven’t had a thing all day.” “No!” they shouted, kicking him out the door. “We’re too busy to make food! We are counting our money!” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 3 likes Like “that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 3 likes Like “But I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 3 likes Like “Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop!” ― Roald Dahl tags: humor 3 likes Like “All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood tags: headmaster, policemen, school 3 likes Like “I was thrilled. I had never met a famous writer before. I examined him closely as he sat in my office. What astonished me was that he looked so ordinary. There was nothing in the least unusual about him. His face, his conversation, his eyes behind the spectacles, even his clothes were all exceedingly normal. And yet here was a writer of stories who was famous the world over. His books had been read by millions of people. I expected sparks to be shooting out of his head, or at the very least, he should have been wearing a long green cloak and a floppy hat with a wide brim. But no.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 3 likes Like “What if they come after us?” said Mr. Bucket, speaking for the first time. “What if they capture us?” said Mrs. Bucket. “What if they shoot us?” said Grandma Georgina. “What if my beard were made of green spinach?” cried Mr. Wonka. “Bunkum and tummyrot! You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 3 likes Like “All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 3 likes Like “This dream is continuing very nice. It has a very dory-hunky ending.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG “Down vith children! Do them in! Boil their bones and fry their skin! Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them! Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them! Offer chocs vith magic powder! Say “Eat up!” then say it louder. Crrram them full of sticky eats, Send them home still guzzling sveets. And in the morning little fools Go marching off to separate schools. A girl feels sick and goes all pale. She yells, “Hey look! I've grrrown a tail!” A boy who's standing next to her Screams, “Help! I think I'm grrrowing fur!” Another shouts, “Vee look like frrreaks! There's viskers growing on our cheeks!” A boy who vos extremely tall Cries out, “Vot's wrong? I'm grrrowing small!” Four tiny legs begin to sprrrout From everybody rrround about. And all at vunce, all in a trrrice, There are no children! Only MICE!” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: children, children-s-literature, rhyming, rhyming-verse, witches 3 likes Like “We is in Dream Country,’ the BFG said. ‘This is where all dreams is beginning.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 3 likes Like “Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.” ― Roald Dahl tags: humor, imagery, perfect-sentence, rattle 3 likes Like “That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.” ― Roald Dahl 3 likes Like “They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 3 likes Like “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 3 likes Like “It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 3 likes Like “Meaning is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.” ― Roald Dahl tags: mistakes-we-make 3 likes Like “I usually carried with me six loaded plates, which allowed me only six exposures, so that clicking the shutter even once was a serious business that had to be carefully thought out beforehand.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood 3 likes Like “She noticed immediately that they were now in an altogether paler country. The sun had disappeared above a film of vapour. The air was becoming cooler every minute. The land was flat and treeless and there seemed to be no colour in it at all. Every minute, the mist became thicker. The air became colder still and everything became paler and paler until soon there was nothing but grey and white all around them. They were in a country of swirling mists and ghostly vapours. There was some sort of grass underfoot but it was not green. It was ashy grey.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 3 likes Like “No one who is good can ever be ugly.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits tags: beauty, goodness, ugliness, ugliness-in-others 3 likes Like “С тех пор каждый день, как только мать уезжала из дома, Матильда приходила в библиотеку. Дорога занимала всего десять минут, и девочка целых два часа могла наслаждаться чтением, тихонько сидя в уголке и проглатывая одну книгу за другой.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 3 likes Like “Hey!' Bruno called out 'Give me the rest of that banana I was eating.” ― Roald Dahl tags: roald-dahl, the-witches 3 likes Like “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’ We” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 3 likes Like “Da igual quién seas o qué aspecto tengas mientras alguien te quiera.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 3 likes Like “In the town itself, actually within sight of the house in which Charlie lived, there was an ENORMOUS CHOCOLATE FACTORY! Just imagine that! And it wasn't simply an ordinary enormous chocolate factory, either. It was the largest and most famous in the whole world!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2 likes Like “La vita di uno scrittore è un vero inferno, confrontata a quella di un uomo d’affari. Lo scrittore deve forzarsi a lavorare, deve imporsi un proprio orario e, se non gli va di sedersi alla scrivania, nessuno lo rimprovera. Se è un romanziere, vive nel terrore: ogni nuovo giorno esige nuove idee, e non si è mai certi che arriveranno puntuali. Dopo due ore passate si sente completamente svuotato. Durante quelle due ore s’è trovato mille miglia lontano, in un altro luogo, in compagnia di gente totalmente diversa, e lo sforzo che deve fare per tornare indietro a nuoto, nel presente, è assai grande. E’ quasi un trauma. […] Bisogna essere pazzi per fare gli scrittori. La loro sola compensazione è un’assoluta libertà. Il loro unico padrone è la loro anima ed è per questo che hanno fatto quella scelta, ne sono certo.” ― Roald Dahl, Boy and Going Solo 2 likes Like “Gli uomini non sono sempre così furbi come vorrebbero far credere. Te ne accorgerai quando sarai più grande, figlia mia.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables,” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “Their skin hung loose over their bodies like suits they had inherited from larger ancestors, with the trousers ridiculously baggy.” ― Roald Dahl, Going Solo 2 likes Like “Your daughter’s a cheat and a liar,” the father said,” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “It was no good. The moonbeam was like a silver blade slicing through the room on to her face. The” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men,” Mr. Wonka said.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 2 likes Like “Hey, my spaghetti’s moving!” cried Mr. Twit, poking around in it with his fork. “It’s a new kind,” Mrs. Twit said, taking a mouthful from her own plate which of course had no worms. “It’s called Squiggly Spaghetti. It’s delicious. Eat it up while it’s nice and hot.” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits tags: dinner, marriage, pranks, pranksters, spaghetti, worms 2 likes Like “There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: men, work 2 likes Like “The beatings at Repton were more fierce and more frequent than anything I had yet experienced. And do not think for one moment that the future Archbishop of Canterbury objected to these squalid exercises. He rolled up his sleeves and joined in with gusto. His were the bad ones, the really terrifying occasions. Some of the beatings administered by this man of God, this future Head of the Church of England, were very brutal. To my certain knowledge he once had to produce a basin of water, a sponge and a towel so that the victim could wash the blood away afterwards. No joke, that. Shades of the Spanish Inquisition.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 2 likes Like “A rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “My darling,’ she said at last, ‘are you sure you don’t mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?’ ‘I don’t mind at all,’ I said. ‘It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 2 likes Like “Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel gevaarlijker is dan een rotjongen. Bovendien zijn ze veel moeilijker klein te krijgen. Een rotmeisje te grazen nemen is als achter een bromvlieg aan zitten. Je mept erop en het gore kreng is alweer weg. Rotmormeld, die meisjes.” ― Roald Dahl tags: girls, matilda, mrs-bullfrog, rotmeisjes 2 likes Like “And thus the journey ended. But the travelers lived on.” ― Roald Dahl “Good strong hair,’ he was fond of saying, ‘means there’s a good strong brain underneath.’ ‘Like Shakespeare,’ Matilda had once said to him. ‘Like who?’ ‘Shakespeare, Daddy.’ ‘Was he brainy?’ ‘Very, Daddy.’ ‘He had masses of hair, did he?’ ‘He was bald, Daddy.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “It was a very beautiful thing, this Golden Ticket, having been made, so it seemed, from a sheet of pure gold hammered out almost to the thinness of paper. On one side of it, printed by some clever method in jet-black letters, was the invitation itself—from Mr. Wonka.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2 likes Like “I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2 likes Like “mouse-trrraps” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 2 likes Like “It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator tags: reminder 2 likes Like “Then they would roll these handfuls of cloud in their fingers until they turned into what looked like large white marbles. Then they would toss the marbles to one side and quickly grab more bits of cloud and start over again.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 2 likes Like “He should have burped,” Charlie said. “Of course he should have burped,” said Mr. Wonka. “I stood there shouting, ‘Burp, you silly ass, burp, or you’ll never come down again! But he didn’t or couldn’t or wouldn’t, I don’t know which. Maybe he was too polite. He must be on the moon by now.” On the next door, it said, SQUARE CANDIES THAT LOOK ROUND.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2 likes Like “The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!’ he yelled. ‘I is feeling the teeth sticking into my anklet!” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “I has told you five or six times,’ he said, ‘and the third will be the last.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “There was an air of menace about them as they loped slowly across the plain with long lolloping strides, heading for the BFG.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “Ah, Piglet, you must never trust Young ladies from the upper crust.” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes 2 likes Like “Tortoise, Tortoise get bigger, bigger. Come on Tortoise grow up, puff up, shoot up! Spring up, Blow up swell up! Gorge! Guzzle! Stuff! Gulp! Put on fat, Tortoise, Put on fat! get on, Get on! Gobble food!!” ― Roald Dahl, Esio Trot 2 likes Like “Hiçbir yerden tek ses bile duyulmuyordu. Şeftalinin üzerinde yolculuk yapmak hiç de bir uçak yolculuğuna benzemiyordu. Uçak gökyüzünde patırtılar, gürültüler çıkararak hareket eder ve o kocaman bulut dağlarına gizlenmiş duran bir şeyler varsa, uçak gelirken koşup saklanırlar. İşte bu yüzden, uçakla yolculuk edenler hiçbir şey göremezler.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach tags: children-s-books, children-s-literature, dev-şeftali, roald-dahl, the-giant-peach 2 likes Like “What’s that?’ Sophie cried. ‘That is all the giants zippfizzing off to another country to guzzle human beans,’ the BFG” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “Books by Roald Dahl The BFG Boy: Tales of Childhood Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny the Champion of the World Dirty Beasts The Enormous Crocodile Esio Trot Fantastic Mr. Fox George’s Marvelous Medicine The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Going Solo James and the Giant Peach The Magic Finger Matilda The Minpins The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes Skin and Other Stories The Twits The Umbrella Man and Other Stories The Vicar of Nibbleswicke The Witches The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 2 likes Like “George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.” ― Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine 2 likes Like “Frobscottle is sweet and jumbly!” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?” ― Roald Dahl tags: a, all, as, be, common, dummy, ever, for, give, going, money, only, something, that-s, there-s, this,ticket, to, up, whole, world, would 2 likes Like “I think you is barking up the wrong dog.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,’ the BFG said.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “Some three years ago I drove down to Provence to spend a summer weekend with a lady who was interesting to me simply because she possessed an extraordinarily powerful muscle in a region where other women have no muscles at all.” ― Roald Dahl, Switch Bitch 2 likes Like “This place we’re flying over now isn’t in the atlas, is it?’ the pilot said, grinning. ‘You’re darn right it isn’t in the atlas!’ cried the Head of the Air Force. ‘We’ve flown clear off the last page!” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones.” ― Roald Dahl, Going Solo 2 likes Like “I can see you is not born last week.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “Her face, I’m afraid, was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy for ever. She” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: dickens, grandi-speranze, leggere, matilda, matilde, roald-dahl 2 likes Like “You’re cheating people who trust you.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.” ― Roald Dahl 2 likes Like “The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It's all right to be doing it yourself but it is a singularly unattractive spectacle for the onlooker.” ― Roald Dahl “She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: identity, resent, selfworth 2 likes Like “Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 2 likes Like “Niets is een grotere kwelling dan een herinnering die net buiten de grenzen van het geheugen zweeft” ― Roald Dahl 2 likes Like “¿Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusada comete allanamiento de morada. Crimen número dos: el personaje se queda con tres platos de potaje. Crimen número tres: la muy cochina destroza una sillita isabelina. Crimen número cuatro: va la dama y se limpia los zapatos en la cama... Un juez no dudaría ni un instante: «¡Diez años de presidio a esa tunante!». Pero en la historia, tal como se cuenta, la miserable escapa tan contenta mientras los niños gritan, encantados: «¡Qué bien; Ricitos de oro se ha salvado!».” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes tags: children-s-literature, classics, golden, poetry, spanish 2 likes Like “- I am a mouse! You wait till my father hears about this! - He may think it's an improvement.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 2 likes Like “and occasionally a sweet chestnut. Miss Honey, wishing to change the subject for the moment, gave the names of all these to Matilda and taught her how to recognize them by the shape of their leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks. Matilda took all this” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” ― Roald Dahl tags: calendar 2 likes Like “The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world to themselves. * * *” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled” ― Roald Dahl tags: matilda 2 likes Like “And when I protested a bit more, I remember he said, 'My dear Lady Ponsonby, there's nothing immoral about this. Art is only immoral when practiced by amateurs. It's the same with medicine. You wouldn't refuse to undress before your doctor, would you?” ― Roald Dahl, Tales of the Unexpected 2 likes Like “Now look at me,” Mrs Wormwood said. “Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “Matilda said nothing. She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. Mr Wormwood’s fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker’s tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 2 likes Like “finest and fattest ducks and geese, plucked and ready for roasting! And up above, dangling from the rafters, there must have been at least a hundred smoked hams and fifty sides of bacon!” ― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox 2 likes Like “Never in a pig’s whistle!’ cried the BFG.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 2 likes Like “I padri e le madri sono tipi strani: anche se il figlio è il più orribile moccioso che si possa immaginare, sono convinti che si tratti di un bambino stupendo. Niente di male: il mondo è fatto così. Ma quando dei genitori cominciano a spiegarci che il loro orrendo pargolo è un autentico genio, viene proprio da urlare: — Presto, una bacinella! Ho una nausea tremenda!” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “Anyone can ask questions,” said Mr. Wonka. “It’s the answers that count.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1 likes Like “Era così piacevole tener vicino una bevanda calda mentre leggeva e leggeva, nella sua stanzetta silenziosa. I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “Matilde non rispose. Rimase in silenzio, ribollendo di rabbia. Sapeva che odiare i propri genitori non era una bella cosa, ma non riusciva ad impedirselo. I libri le avevano mostrato la vita sotto una luce che loro ignoravano. Se soltanto avessero letto un romanzo di Dickens, o di Kipling, avrebbero scoperto che imbrogliare la gente e guardare la televisione non è tutto.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “Showler here, Mr. President,” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1 likes Like “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” ― Roald Dahl 1 likes Like “Mr Wonka Goes Too Far The last time we saw Charlie, he was riding high above his home town in the Great Glass Lift. Only a short while before, Mr Wonka had told him that the whole gigantic fabulous Chocolate Factory was his, and now our small friend was returning in triumph with his entire family to take over. The passengers in the Lift (just to remind you) were: Charlie Bucket, our hero. Mr Willy Wonka, chocolate-maker extraordinary. Mr and Mrs Bucket, Charlie’s father and mother. Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine, Mr Bucket’s father and mother. Grandpa George and Grandma Georgina, Mrs Bucket’s father and mother. Grandma Josephine, Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George were still in bed, the bed having been pushed on board just before take-off. Grandpa Joe, as you remember, had got out of bed to go around the Chocolate Factory with Charlie. The Great Glass Lift was a thousand feet up and cruising nicely. The sky was brilliant blue. Everybody on board was wildly excited at the thought of going to live in the famous Chocolate Factory. Grandpa Joe was singing. Charlie was jumping up and down. Mr and Mrs Bucket were smiling for the first time in years, and the three old ones in the bed were grinning at one another with pink toothless gums. ‘What in the world keeps this crazy thing up in the air?’ croaked Grandma Josephine. ‘Madam,’ said Mr Wonka, ‘it is not a lift any longer. Lifts only go up and down inside buildings. But now that it has taken us up into the sky, it has become an ELEVATOR. It is THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1 likes Like “Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity (RDMCC) is a registered charity no. 1137409. The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre (RDMSC) is a registered charity no. 1085853. The Roald Dahl Charitable” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1 likes Like “Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.” ― Roald Dahl, Katina tags: nature, time 1 likes Like “I'm sorry," I said. "It's none of my business what you do. The trouble is, I'm a writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.” ― Roald Dahl, The Hitch-Hiker 1 likes Like “Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1 likes Like “Un libro, piensas, es una cajita milagrosa: puedes meterlo en el bolsillo de tu abrigo y en él caben, sin embargo, muchas más cosas de las que existen en el mundo.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1 likes Like “much” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 1 likes Like “A whizzpopper!’ cried the BFG, beaming at her. ‘Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping is forbidden among human beans?” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 1 likes Like “. . . 'let's learn and note The art of politics. Let's teach you how to miss the boat And how to drop some bricks, And how to win the people's vote And lots of other tricks. Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator “Puffin is over seventy years old.” ― Roald Dahl, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me 1 likes Like “it is like choosing from a menu.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 1 likes Like “Twice a day, on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket had to walk right past the gates of the factory. And every time he went by, he would begin to walk very, very slowly, and he would hold his nose high in the air and take long deep sniffs of the gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him. Oh,” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1 likes Like “matron” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “gorgeous chocolatey smell” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1 likes Like “Truth is more important than modesty” ― Roald Dahl tags: inspirational-attitude 1 likes Like “I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.’ A” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 1 likes Like “The watchers below could see the chocolate swishing around the boy in the pipe, and they could see it building up behind him in a solid mass, pushing against the blockage. The pressure was terrific. Something had to give. Something did give, and that something was Augustus. WHOOF! Up he shot again like a bullet in the barrel of a gun.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1 likes Like “The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. She whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creature's head, And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.” ― Roald Dahl tags: revolting-rhymes, roald-dahl 1 likes Like “All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television. Another thing. She resented being told constantly that she was ignorant and stupid when she knew she wasn’t. The anger inside her went on boiling and boiling,” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush--climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.” ― Roald Dahl tags: humor, life-lesson 1 likes Like “El Super Zorro. 3 granjeros bastante malos y llamados Benito Buñuelo y Bufón tienen una granja cada uno. El Superzorro vivia con sus hijos y su mujer, como todos o casi todos los días el Superzorro va ha buscar comida y os preguntareis ¿De donde la saca? Bueno pues muy facil se la coge a Benito Buñuelo y Bufón de sus granjas. Entonces un día los tres granjeros decidieros matar al zorro, aprovechando de que esa noche el viento iva para otro lado pusieron su plan en marcha. Justamente esa noche el Superzorro salio a por comida para alimentar a su familia,de repente oyo unos pasos y se escondio, entonces cuando fue a salir uno de los tres malvados granjeros le disparo en la cola y pansaron que le habian matado pero no fue asi. En cuanto le dispararon en la cola fue corrien do a su casa...” ― Roald Dahl tags: el-super-zorro 1 likes Like “There’s three of them in nightshirts! Two old women and one” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1 likes Like “They also talked about themselves, each one saying how beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face.” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 1 likes Like “But the launching had been a great success and now that the Space Hotel was safely in orbit, there was a tremendous hustle and bustle to send up the first guests. It was rumored that the President of the United States himself was going to be among the first to stay in the hotel, and of course there was a mad rush by all sorts of other people across the world to book rooms. Several kings and queens had cabled the White House in Washington for reservations, and a Texas millionaire called Orson Cart, who was about to marry a Hollywood starlet called Helen Highwater, was offering one hundred thousand dollars a day for the honeymoon suite. But you cannot send guests to a hotel unless there are lots of people there to look after them, and that explains why there was yet another interesting object orbiting the earth at that moment. This was the large Commuter Capsule containing the entire staff for Space Hotel “U.S.A.” There were managers, assistant managers, desk clerks, waitresses, bellhops, chambermaids, pastry chefs and hall porters. The capsule they were traveling in was manned by the three famous astronauts, Shuckworth, Shanks and Showler, all of them handsome, clever and brave. “In exactly one hour,” said Shuckworth,” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1 likes Like “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: love 1 likes Like “This place we’re flying over now isn’t in the atlas, is it?’ the pilot said, grinning. ‘You’re darn right it isn’t in the atlas!’ cried the Head of the Air Force. ‘We’ve flown clear off the last page!’ ‘I expect that old giant knows where he’s going,’ the young pilot said. ‘He’s leading us to disaster!’ cried the Head of the Air Force. He was shaking with fear. In the seat behind him sat the Head of the Army who was even more terrified. ‘You don’t mean to tell me we’ve gone right out of the atlas?’ he cried, leaning forward to look. ‘That’s exactly what I am telling you!’ cried the Air Force man. ‘Look for yourself. Here’s the very last map in the whole flaming atlas! We went off that over an hour ago!’ He turned the page. As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end. ‘So now we must be somewhere here,’ he said, putting a finger on one of the blank pages. ‘Where’s here?’ cried the Head of the Army. The young pilot was still grinning broadly. He said to them, ‘That’s why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They’re for new countries. You’re meant to fill them in yourself.’ The” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 1 likes Like “Words,' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.” ― Roald Dahl tags: children-s-book, fantasy, words-have-power 1 likes Like “This morning from a halibut.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1 likes Like “What sort of a book would you like to read next?" she asked.” ― Roald Dahl tags: book-quotes, books, books-reading 1 likes Like “Sebagian besar hal seru yang kita lakukan dalam hidup ini membuat kita takut setengah mati. Hal-hal itu tidak akan seru kalau tidak menakutkan -Danny” ― Roald Dahl tags: child 1 likes Like “RECIPE FOR MAKING WONKA-VITE Take a block of finest chocolate weighing one ton (or twenty sackfuls of broken chocolate, whichever is the easier). Place chocolate in very large cauldron and melt over red-hot furnace. When melted, lower the heat slightly so as not to burn the chocolate, but keep it boiling. Now add the following, in precisely the order given, stirring well all the time and allowing each item to dissolve before adding the next: THE HOOF OF A MANTICORE THE TRUNK (AND THE SUITCASE) OF AN ELEPHANT THE YOLKS OF THREE EGGS FROM A WHIFFLE-BIRD A WART FROM A WART-HOG THE HORN OF A COW (IT MUST BE A LOUD HORN) THE FRONT TAIL OF A COCKATRICE SIX OUNCES OF SPRUNGE FROM A YOUNG SLIMESCRAPER TWO HAIRS (AND ONE RABBIT) FROM THE HEAD OF A HIPPOCAMPUS THE BEAK OF A RED-BREASTED WILBATROSS A CORN FROM THE TOE OF A UNICORN THE FOUR TENTACLES OF A QUADROPUS THE HIP (AND THE PO AND THE POT) OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS THE SNOUT OF A PROGHOPPER A MOLE FROM A MOLE THE HIDE (AND THE SEEK) OF A SPOTTED WHANGDOODLE THE WHITES OF TWELVE EGGS FROM A TREE-SQUEAK THE THREE FEET OF A SNOZZ-WANGER (IF YOU CAN’T GET THREE FEET, ONE YARD WILL DO) THE SQUARE-ROOT OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ABACUS THE FANGS OF A VIPER (IT MUST BE A VINDSCREEN VIPER) THE CHEST (AND THE DRAWERS) OF A WILD GROUT When all the above are thoroughly dissolved, boil for a further twenty-seven days but do not stir. At the end of this time, all liquid will have evaporated and there will be left in the bottom of the cauldron only a hard brown lump about the size of a football. Break this open with a hammer and in the very centre of it you will find a small round pill. This pill is WONKA-VITE.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1 likes Like “I think kindness if my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the other things like courage or bravery of generosity or anything else. Kindness—that simple word. To be kind, it covers everything to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.” ― Roald Dahl 1 likes Like “The trouble is, I'm writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.” ― Roald Dahl, The Hitch-Hiker and Other Short Stories 1 likes Like “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ― Roald Dahl 1 likes Like “He resembled, to an extraordinary degree, an asparagus.” ― Roald Dahl, Mr Botibol 1 likes Like “largest” ― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More 1 likes Like “Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “I signaled the bus-driver and he stopped the bus for me right outside the cottage, and I flew down the steps of the bus straight into the arms of the waiting mother.” ― Roald Dahl tags: adventures, autobiography, war 1 likes Like “When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake, he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths. The” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda “on” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 1 likes Like “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives...All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen” ― Roald Dahl 1 likes Like “Tell me immediately who those people are in that glass capsule!’ ‘Ah-ha,’ said the Chief Spy, twirling his false moustache.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1 likes Like “black suit arrived at the house carrying a brief-case, and he held a long conversation with my grandmother in the” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 1 likes Like “«Mientras, seguían abriendo túnel, guiados por las zapas expertas de don Tejón. De repente, éste se detuvo y volviéndose hacia el zorro... "Amigo zorro", le confesó, "estoy algo preocupado por lo que estamos haciendo". "¿Y qué estamos haciendo, si puede saberse?", le preguntó don Zorro. "Pues qué va a ser... ¡robar!", exclamó el tejón. Don Zorro dejó de cavar y se volvió estupefacto hacia su amigo: "Mi buen tejón...", comenzó el zorro. "¿Te das cuenta de lo que estás diciendo? Si tus hijos se están muriendo de hambre... ¿es que no piensas ayudarles?" Don Tejón asintió cabizbajo. "A ti lo que te pasa", continuó el zorro, "es que eres demasiado bueno". "¿Y qué hay de malo en eso?", le preguntó el tejón. "¡Nada... sólo que nuestros enemigos son demasiado malos! ¿Te das cuenta de que Benito, Buñuelo y Bufón nos quieren matar?" "Claro que me doy cuenta...", dijo el tejón con tristeza. "Nosotros, en cambio, no queremos matarles a ellos... "¡Dios nos libre!", exclamó el buen tejón. "Sólo pretendemos", continuó el zorro, "distraerles un poco de comida para alimentarnos nosotros y nuestras familias... ¿Qué hay de malo en ello?" "Supongo que nada", murmuró el tejón. "¡Son ellos los que nos hacen la guerra", exclamó el zorro. "¡Nosotros somos animales pacíficos!"»” ― Roald Dahl, El Superzorro 1 likes Like “As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,” ― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine 1 likes Like “dwelling.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda 1 likes Like “This is Mr. Bucket. This is Mrs. Bucket. Mr. and Mrs. Bucket have a small boy whose name is Charlie Bucket.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “fat” ― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox 0 likes Like “I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.” ― Roald Dahl tags: bfg, children, dreams, giant, happiness, happy, inspirational, sleeping 0 likes Like “If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “Bütün büyükler çocuklara dev gibi görünürler.” ― Roald Dahl, Küçük Adam Büyürken tags: çocuk 0 likes Like “Eve dönüşün keyfini çıkarmak için evden uzaklaşmaya değer.” ― Roald Dahl, Küçük Adam Büyürken tags: ev 0 likes Like “And” ― Roald Dahl, George's Marvelous Medicine 0 likes Like “Watch with glittering eyes the world around you. [...] Those who do not believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “squeezing her feet into those neat little pointed shoes.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS. That” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh! Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing! A-aa-aaa-aaaah!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: willy-wonka 0 likes Like “A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.” ― Roald Dahl tags: girls, misbehaving 0 likes Like “dream-blowing giant,” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “There's more food in one bottle of beer, me lad, than twenty sandwiches.” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “jalous!” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes 0 likes Like “All you do is look At a page in this book Because that's where we'll always be, No book ever ends When it's full of your friends The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.” ― Roald Dahl, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me 0 likes Like “It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President,” said the Postmaster General. “The country’s so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “golden leaves!” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes 0 likes Like “eat” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “He threw up his arms and yelled “Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” And at the same time, his long bony body rose up out of the bed and his bowl of soup went flying into the face of Grandma Josephine, and in one fantastic leap, this old fellow of ninety-six and a half, who hadn’t been out of bed these last twenty years, jumped on to the floor and started doing a dance of victory in his pajamas.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the entire world—hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “- Je n'approuve pas le meurtre, dit la reine. - Mais ce sont eux-mêmes des meurtriers, fit remarquer le chef de l'armée de terre. - Ce n'est pas une raison pour suivre leur exemple, répliqua la reine, ce ne sont pas deux torts conjugués qui feront valoir le bon droit. - Et deux bons droits ne font pas un bon gauche! s'exclama le BGG.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG “This is test number one hundred and thirty-two!’ I said, chalking it up on the board. “I handed him the pill. He looked at it nervously. I couldn’t blame him for being a bit jittery after what had happened to the other one hundred and thirty-one volunteers.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “Whips!” cried Veruca Salt. “What on earth do you use whips for?” “For whipping cream, of course,” said Mr. Wonka. “How can you whip cream without whips? Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn’t a poached egg unless it’s been stolen from the woods in the dead of night! Row on, please!” They” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD! IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND! HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE! HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE! HE CANNOT THINK—HE ONLY SEES!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “scrumdiddlyumptious taste, so says the Welly-eating Giant.’ ‘What do the people of Wellington taste of?’ Sophie” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “I IS ABLE TO MAKE THE ELEKTRIK LITES GO ON AND OFF JUST BY WISHING IT.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “I IS ABEL TO JUMP OUT OF ANY HIGH WINDOW AND FLOTE DOWN SAFELY.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “I HAS A PET BEE THAT MAKES ROCK AND ROLL MUSIK WHEN IT FLIES.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “buzz-wangles, I” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “- Мейсън – каза той. – Аз… аз очаквам една млада дама в три часа. - Една какво, сър? - Една млада дама, Мейсън. Въведи я в гостната.” ― Roald Dahl, More Tales Of The Unexpected 0 likes Like “Catasterous!’ cried” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “Never in a month of Mondays.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “bugwhiffles, I” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “Сега вече гърдите на Хари се оголиха изцяло или по-скоро горнището на раираната му пижама, после зърнах и белия шнур на панталоните му, прилежно завързан на фльонга. Малко по-надолу се показа някакво седефено копче, каквото никога не съм имал на пижамата си, никакво копче на цепката, камо ли седефено. Пустият му Хари, помислих си, много е изискан. Странно как понякога в най-напрегнати моменти човек се сеща за глупости. Аз например съвсем ясно си спомням, че си помислих, когато видях онова копче, колко е изискан Хари.” ― Roald Dahl, More Tales Of The Unexpected 0 likes Like “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “We used often to see a big one gliding across the dirt road ahead of the car, and the golden rule was never to accelerate and try to run it over, especially if the roof of the car was open, as ours often was. If you hit a snake at speed, the front wheel can flip it up into the air and there is a danger of it landing in your lap. I can think of nothing worse than that. The really bad snake in Tanganyika is the black mamba. It is the only one that has no fear of man and will deliberately attack him on sight. If it bites you, you are a gonner.” ― Roald Dahl, Going Solo 0 likes Like “What’s your name?’ ‘Pilot Officer Dahl, sir.’ ‘Very well, Dahl,’ he said, weighing the package up and down in one hand. ‘This is on no account to fall into enemy hands. Guard it with your life. Do I make myself clear?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ I said, feeling important.” ― Roald Dahl, Going Solo 0 likes Like “Describe” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “mike. “There’s something crazy going on up here. There’s” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator “can’t possibly” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “15” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let’s hear about it. The” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely” ― Roald Dahl tags: inspirational 0 likes Like “Matilda, and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab. A scab is something you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away. Mr and Mrs Wormwood looked forward enormously to the time when they” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda “«And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “Nothing except the roots of the old peach tree…and a whole lot of earthworms and centipedes and insects living in the soil. But” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach “THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE” ― Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes 0 likes Like “ass,” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grownup won't listen to me; he won't learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child. I want a good sensible loving child, one to whom I can tell all my most precious candy-making secrets-while I am still alive.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tags: child-like-heart, humility, innocence, meekness 0 likes Like “I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.” ― Roald Dahl tags: antisemitism, israel, jewish, jews 0 likes Like “The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “Puffineers” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach “four corners of the earth!” ― Roald Dahl, The Magic Finger 0 likes Like “beautiful she thought she was. Aunt Sponge had a long-handled mirror on her lap, and she kept picking it up and gazing at her own hideous face. ‘I look and smell,’ Aunt Sponge declared, ‘as lovely as a rose! Just feast your eyes upon my face, observe my shapely nose! Behold my heavenly silky locks! And if I take off both my socks You’ll see my dainty toes.’ ‘But don’t forget,’ Aunt Spiker cried, ‘how much your tummy shows!” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach “The air became colder still and everything became paler” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “This, he thought, is what hell must be like. Hell without heat. There was something unholy about it all, something unbelievably diabolical.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator “human bean is” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG “Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it in no time. Would you like to hear the song about "difficulty"?' 'I should be fascinated.' the Trunchbull said in a voice dripping with sarcasm. 'Here it is,' Nigel said. 'Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' 'How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted the Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married? And anyway you're not meant to teach poetry when you're teaching spelling. Cut it out in the future, Miss Honey.” ― Roald Dahl, Matilda tags: humor 0 likes Like “inside it, and they were trying as gently” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 0 likes Like “bunkum” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interested your readers at all.” ― Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox 0 likes Like “And Mrs. Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.' Mr. Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that.” ― Roald Dahl tags: love-quotes 0 likes Like “When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all.” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “I cannot be helping it if I sometimes is saying things a little squiggly. I” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “Non è con un torto che dobbiamo far valere il nostro diritto. Se no è un diritto storto” ― Roald Dahl, Le streghe; Il GGG 0 likes Like “the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “Vaig començar a adonar-me que podia resultar molt senzilla, la vida, si s'entrava en una rutina regular, amb hores fixes, salari fix i poca necessitat de tenir idees originals. La vida d´un escriptor és l'infern, comparada amb la d'un executiu. L'escriptor s'ha de forçar a treballar. S'ha de fer l'horari, i si no s'asseu a la taula de treball ningú no l'esbronca. Viu en un món de temor. Cada dia exigeix idees noves, i no pot estar mai segur de si les podrà seguir o no. Dues hores d'escriure ficció el deixa completament sec. (....) La persona que vol ser escriptor és un beneit. L'única compensació és uqe té tota la llibertat. No té més amo que el seu propi esperit; i es per això que es fa escriptor, n'estic segur” ― Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood tags: escritores 0 likes Like “Bukan masalah siapa dirimu atau seperti apa penampilanmu, selama ada yang menyayangimu.( hal 216)” ― Roald Dahl ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World 0 likes Like “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeam and you will always look lovely.” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.” ― Roald Dahl “But it’ll cost the earth!” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World “REVOLTING RHYMES Plays” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “Never get out of bed, never go to the window, and never look behind the curtain.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG “Get up at once, you lazy little beast!” ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach 0 likes Like “¡Avante” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie y el gran ascensor de cristal 0 likes Like “outdoors” ― Roald Dahl, The Twits 0 likes Like “You mean to tell me,’ I said, ‘that every time I pleasure a young lady, I shoot into her two thousand million spermatozoa?’ ‘Absolutely.’ ‘All squiggling and squirming and thrashing about?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘No wonder it gives her a charge,’ I said. A.” ― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald 0 likes Like “over the years i have discovered a surprising but simple truth about young ladies and it is this: the more beautiful their faces, the less delicate their thoughts.” ― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald tags: ladies_beauty_-_thoughts 0 likes Like “*Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. Notice them. *No book ever ends when it's full of friends.” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “It’s worse than that, William! It’s diabolical! Do you know what this means? It means that decent folk like you and me can’t even go out and have a little fun at night without risking a broken leg or arm. We might even break our necks!” ― Roald Dahl 0 likes Like “It doesn't matter who are are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “The romance, alas, waned and withered but the quiche lived on.” ― Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl's Cookbook 0 likes Like “loading the dreams, the BFG and Sophie disappeared over the mountains on” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “When he was sure that all his precious dreams had” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “This Giant had some sort of magic in his legs.” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “whizzpopping. Presidents” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG “The rooster has a funny little paper hat over its head, like an ice-cream cone upside down, and my dad is pointing to it proudly and saying, ‘Stroke him. Go on, stroke him. Do anything you like to him. He won’t move an inch.’ The rooster starts scratching” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World 0 likes Like “snozzcumber” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG 0 likes Like “But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “WILLY WONKA’S FAMOUS CHOCOLATE FACTORY IS OPENING AT LAST!” ― Roald Dahl, Danny the Champion of the World “She might even — and this will make you jump — she might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “There’s someone over there needs a helping hand and it’s our job to give it.” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “Poppyrot and pigwash!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But — and here comes the big “but” — it is not impossible.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches 0 likes Like “My Great Glass Elevator is ready for anything! In we go! Into the breach, dear friends, into the breach!” ― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 0 likes Like “And on the pillow of the bed lay the head” ― Roald Dahl, The BFG “Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potter, hogwarts, j-k-rowling 1270 likes Like “Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix “Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, prisoner-of-azkaban 408 likes Like “Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, voldemort 355 likes Like Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]” ― J.K. Rowling tags: fifty-shades-of-grey, humour, interview, j-k-rowling 310 likes Like “You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets tags: best-quotes-ever, dumbledore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling 272 likes Like Oh, are you doing magic? Let’s see it, then.” She sat down. Ron looked taken aback. “Er — all right.” He cleared his throat. “Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow.” He waved his wand, but nothing happened. Scabbers stayed gray and fast asleep. “Are you sure that’s a real spell?” said the girl. “Well, it’s not very good, is it? I’ve tried a few simple spells just for practice and it’s all worked for me. I’ve learned all our course books by heart, of course.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone tags: harry-potter, hermione-granger, j-k-rowling, magic, ron-weasley, scabbers 271 likes Like “And it’s Johnson, Johnson with the Quaffle, what a player that girl is, I’ve been saying it for years but she still won’t go out with me —' 'JORDAN!' yelled Professor McGonagall. 'Just a fun fact, Professor, adds a bit of interest —” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, jordan, order-of-the-phoenix, professor-mcgonagall, quidditch 265 likes Like “Killing rips the soul apart.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling 259 likes Like “Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: inspirational, j-k-rowling, writers, writing, writing-inspiration 219 likes Like “There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: dumbledore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, order-of-phoenix 189 likes Like “No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, story 166 likes Like “Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher. “What — what are you doing?” said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferret’s progress through the air. “Teaching,” said Moody. “Teach — Moody, is that a student?” shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling out of her arms. “Yep,” said Moody. “Moody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!” said Professor McGonagall weakly.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tags: ferret, goblet-of-fire, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, mcgonagall, moody 157 likes Like “Hermione, if Harry’s seen a Grim, that’s — that’s bad,” he said. “My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!” “Coincidence,” said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice. “You don’t know what you’re talking about!” said Ron, starting to get angry. “Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!” “There you are, then,” said Hermione in a superior tone. “They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death! And Harry’s still with us because he’s not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I’d better kick the bucket then!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tags: grims, harry-potter, hermione, j-k-rowling, prisoner-of-azkaban, ron 154 likes Like “I love you, Hermione,” said Ron, sinking back, rubbing his eyes wearily. Hermione turned faintly pink, but merely said, “Don’t let Lavender hear you saying that.” “I won’t,” said Ron into his hands. “Or maybe I will . . . then she’ll ditch me . . .” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: half-blood-prince, hermione, j-k-rowling, love, ron 145 likes Like “Get up, you useless lump, get up!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: harry-potter, humor, j-k-rowling 104 likes Like “But Death was cunning.” ― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling 98 likes Like “He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, love 98 likes Like “Yeah,” said Ron, “and lucky Harry doesn’t lose his head in a crisis — ‘there’s no wood,’ honestly.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling 94 likes Like “Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: chapter-11, deathly-hallows, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, page-215, parents, the-bribe 90 likes Like “At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tags: awesome, badass, dumbledore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, power, powerful 85 likes Like “You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone tags: draco-malfoy, harry-potter, j-k-rowling 82 likes Like “Look . . . at . . . me. . . .” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: j-k-rowling, severus-snape 77 likes Like “But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets tags: badass, best-quotes-ever, coolest, dobby, harry-potter, inspiring, j-k-rowling, powerful 76 likes Like “It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment...” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets tags: flying, harry-potter, j-k-rowling 73 likes Like “No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: crying, death, depressing, fred, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, loss, sad, so-many-feels, why 73 likes Like “Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling 66 likes Like “Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: amazing, awesome, badass, best-character-ever, best-quotes-ever, dumbledore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, saved 60 likes Like “Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance” ― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy “It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: depression, j-k-rowling 201 likes Like “NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: harry, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, voldemort 103 likes Like “The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!” ― J.K. Rowling tags: j-k-rowling, muggles, wizards 84 likes Like “By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: dreams, harry, harry-potter, humor, j-k-rowling, order-of-the-phoenix, professor-trelawney 58 likes Like “Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: j-k-rowling 53 likes Like “My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: imagination, j-k-rowling 45 likes Like “It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling 40 likes Like “The owls are gathering; find out why soon.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, pottermore 35 likes Like “I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, pottermore 33 likes Like “Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: encyclopedia, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, pottermore, the-scottish-book 31 likes Like “By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.” ― Gary Oldman tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling 19 likes Like “How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.” ― Harold Bloom tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, reading 17 likes Like “Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: dumbledore, half-blood-prince, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, mouth-organ 14 likes Like “Palavras são, na minha nada humilde opinião, nossa inesgotável fonte de magia. Capazes de formar grandes sofrimentos e também de remedia-los.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: alvo-dumblerore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling 11 likes Like “Training for the ballet, Potter?” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets tags: draco-malfoy, harry-potter, j-k-rowling 7 likes Like “My refusal to remove the book from the library was backed by a majority of the Board of Governors. I wrote back to Mr Malfoy, explaining my decision: So-called pure-blood families maintain their alleged purity by disowning, banishing or lying about Muggles or Muggle-borns on their family trees. They then attempt to foist their hypocrisy upon the rest of us by asking us to ban works dealing with the truths they deny. There is not a witch or wizard in existence whose blood has not mingled with that of Muggles, and I should therefore consider it both illogical and immoral to remove works dealing with the subject from our students' store of knowledge.(4) This exchange marked the beginning of Mr Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as Headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favourite Death Eater. (4)My response prompted several further letters from Mr Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.” ― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard tags: j-k-rowling, the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard 4 likes Like “The full list of these fouls, however, has never been made available to the wizarding public. It is the Department's view that witches and wizards who see the list 'might get ideas'.” ― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages tags: j-k-rowling 4 likes Like “One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor, down which I ventured at the age of eighteen in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: 'What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality'. That is an astonishing statement, and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing.” ― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination tags: j-k-rowling 4 likes Like “Agatha Chubb, expert in ancient wizarding artefacts, has identified no fewer than twelve lead Bludgers dating from this period, discovered both in Irish peat bogs and English marshes. "They are undoubtedly Bludgers rather than cannonballs," she writes. The faint indentations of magically reinforced Beaters' bats are visible and one can see the distinctive hallmarks of manufacture by a wizard (as opposed to a Muggle) - the smoothness of line, the perfect symmetry. A final clue was the fact that each and every one of them whizzed around my study and attempted to knock me to the floor when released from its case,” ― J.K. Rowling, Quidditch Through the Ages tags: j-k-rowling 2 likes Like “No Muggle Prime Minister has ever set foot in the Ministry of Magic, for reasons most succinctly summed up by ex-Minister Dugald McPhail (term of office 1858 - 1865): 'their puir wee braines couldnae cope wi' it.” ― J.K. Rowling, Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists tags: j-k-rowling 2 likes Like “Want to come to the ball with me?" Fred Weasley” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tags: ball, fred-weasley, j-k-rowling, yule-ball 2 likes Like “Want to come to the ball with me? - Fred Weasley” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tags: ball, fred-weasley, j-k-rowling, yule-ball 2 likes Like “A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop.” ― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard tags: j-k-rowling, the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard 1 likes Like “Life is like a Golden Snitch. Unexpected, but once you catch it, You have full control of your life.” ― Me!... I think tags: j-k-rowling 0 likes Like “I just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters," - Harry Potter” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, platform-nine-and-three-quarters, train 0 likes Like “Not an exact quote, more like an opinion, a thought. Dementors suck out happiness from people. The make people remember their worst moments in life. The way to defeat them / repel them is to cast a patronus charm, [incantation: expecto patronum. If my latin serves me right it means "I expect / I command my patron]. The difficulty lies in casting the charm while those foul creatures make you feel terrible and the charm only works if you can conjure up a most happy memory. I suggest a new / additional interpretation of JK Rowling's idea: Demen - tors are your inner demons that make you feel terrible, things you did in your life, terrible losses you experienced (Harry hears his mother's screams) and negative emotions. Those inner demons TORment you and your soul. You can only escape those horrible impressions with an overwhelming positive force of imagination. Happy moments in your life, thoughts about friends, family, love and connection versus the horrible loneliness that your inner demons create.” ― ThomThor tags: dementors, demons, happiness, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, torment 0 likes Like “If trying hard doesn't work, try harder. Then try harder than harder until one day you shall succeed.” ― -Himayath Nuzraan tags: best-quotes, j-k-rowling 0 likes Like “Quelli che ci amano non ci lasciano mai veramente.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, sirius-black 0 likes Like “If you ask for my opinion in what regards Tim Ferris, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling, you are assuming that I am in a position to judge their work, which makes me better than them. But if you are reading their books are not mine, you are wasting my time with your ignorance and nonsense.” ― Robin Sacredfire tags: authors, dan-brown, eckhart-tolle, j-k-rowling, nonsense, rhonda-byrne, stupidity, tim-ferris, writers 0 likes Like “So top grade's "O" for "Outstanding",' she was saying, 'and then there's "A"-' 'No, "E",' George corrected her, '"E" for "Exceeds Expectations". And I've always thought Fred and I should've got "E" in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix “No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: amazing, dedication, friends, harry-potter, hermione, j-k-rowling, love, powerful, trust 77 likes Like “He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: commitment, death, dobby, friends, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, love, loyalty, sad, why 76 likes Like “The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...” ― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen tags: dean-koontz, hard-times, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, life, negativity, pain, wisdom 49 likes Like “Love is the strongest power there is.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: j-k-rowling 43 likes Like “Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: authority, awesome, dumbledore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, power, uncle-vernon 27 likes Like “Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: awesome, dumbledore, fearless, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, powerful, the-cave, the-coolest 26 likes Like “In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.” ― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling tags: inspirational, j-k-rowling, self-esteem, wallflower 26 likes Like “Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My gran's going do kill be," said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, "dat was by dad's old wand...” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: broken, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, neville, old-wand, sad 26 likes Like “Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tags: awesome, friends, hagrid, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, powerful, stand-up-for-friends 22 likes Like “I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: j-k-rowling 20 likes Like “We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: history, j-k-rowling, today 13 likes Like “For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling 12 likes Like “Wenn wir träumen, betreten wir eine Welt, die ganz und gar uns gehört. <3” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tags: harry-potter, j-k-rowling, prisoner-of-azkaban 11 likes Like “We want to fight.” “And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to happen,” I said blithely.” ― Laura Kreitzer, Fallen Legion tags: angels, fallen-legion, fantasy, fiction, humor, j-k-rowling, laura-kreitzer, paranormal, potterverse,timeless-series 10 likes Like “Hasn't your experience with the Time-Turner taught you anything, Harry? The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed...” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tags: dumbledore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling 10 likes Like “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: dumbledore, harry-potter, j-k-rowling 9 likes Like “Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: chapter-23, dumbledore, half-blood-prince, harry-potter, horcruxes, j-k-rowling, love, page-509 8 likes Like “I'm not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: albus-dumbledore, chapter-26, half-blood-prince, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, page-578 7 likes Like “What Fats wanted to recover was a kind of innocence, and the route he had chosen back to it was through all the things that were suppose to be bad for you, but which, paradoxically, seemed to Fats to be the one true way to authenticity; to a kind of purity. It was curious how often everything was back to front, the inverse of what they told you; Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptized backwards into ignorance and simplicity.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: j-k-rowling, the-casual-vacancy 7 likes Like “Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone. He will only be gone from the school when none here or loyal to him, said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: chapter-30, dumbledore, half-blood-prince, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, page-468, page-469, scrimgeour,the-white-tomb 6 likes Like “Mischief Managed!!!” ― J.K. Rowling tags: azkaban, harry, j-k-rowling, mischief, potter, prisoner 6 likes Like “Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.” ― JK Rowling tags: inspirational, j-k-rowling, success, very-good-lives 4 likes Like “One person. All it takes is one person." -Severus Snap , Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” ― J.K. Rowling tags: harry-potte, harry-potter-8, j-k-rowling, snape 4 likes Like “Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrain from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: dumbledore, half-blood-prince, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, love, page-509 3 likes Like “E' strano, ma quando si ha paura di qualcosa, e si darebbe tutto per rallentare il tempo, quest'ultimo ha la spiacevole abitudine di accelerare.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire tags: harry-potter-4, j-k-rowling 3 likes Like “Mi ero troppo affezionato a te" spiegò Silente con semplicità. "Tenevo più alla tua felicità che a farti conoscere la verità,più alla tua serenità che al mio piano.Ho agito esattamente come Voldemort si aspetta che agiscano gli sciocchi in grado di amare” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: dumbledore, harry-potter, harry-potter-5, j-k-rowling 3 likes Like “La juventud y su agudo agijón de amor” ― J.K. Rowling tags: albus-dumbledore, amor, harry-potter, j-k-rowling, juventud, las-reliquias-de-la-muerte 2 likes Like “So given a Time-Turner, I'd tell my 21 self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or archievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life.” ― J.K. Rowling tags: inspirational, j-k-rowling, very-good-lives 2 likes Like “Dobby non può permettere che Harry Potter si perde il suo rosso!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst 142467 likes Like “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing 112143 likes Like “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep 109036 likes Like “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ― Elbert Hubbard tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love 75018 likes Like “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace 67889 likes Like “We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower tags: inspirational, love 60404 likes Like “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.” ― Bob Marley tags: love 52595 likes Like “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves tags: life, love 52553 likes Like “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: love 43796 likes Like “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy 37499 likes Like “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage 37368 likes Like “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: love, poetry 35047 likes Like “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong 33475 likes Like “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones tags: love 33382 likes Like “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed 30492 likes Like “This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: attributed-no-source, friends, heartbreak, inspirational, life, love, sisters 30244 likes Like “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever tags: love 30148 likes Like “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land tags: essential, happiness, love 28327 likes Like “You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay tags: katniss, love, peeta, suzanne-collins, the-hunger-games 26307 likes Like “You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.” ― Bob Marley tags: love 26117 likes Like “I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple 23246 likes Like “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 23224 likes Like “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream tags: love 22214 likes Like “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember tags: love, simile 21629 likes Like “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: love 20894 likes Like “If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: attributed-no-source, girls, love 20757 likes Like “You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper tags: imperfect, love 20715 likes Like “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” ― Robert Fulghum, True Love tags: love, weirdness 20601 likes Like “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anaïs Nin tags: death, love 20063 likes Like “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: attributed-no-source, love 19664 likes Like “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ― Alfred Tennyson tags: friendship, love 19422 likes Like “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves tags: love 18117 likes Like “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape 17989 likes Like “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern tags: desire, emotion, friendship, honesty, imagination, individuality, life, love, passion, reality, relationships,romance, truth, wisdom, wise-words 17965 likes Like “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones tags: dying, facts, fame, knowing, love, poverty, reality, school, teach, wealth 17600 likes Like “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan tags: adventure, love 16581 likes Like “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice tags: humor, love, romantic, women 16271 likes Like “So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love, marriage 16129 likes Like “Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.” ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight tags: life, love 15201 likes Like “Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.” ― Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam tags: love, paraphrase-of-congreve 14904 likes Like “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: love, poetry 13951 likes Like “He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.” ― Bob Marley tags: inspirational, love 13794 likes Like “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters tags: life, love 13214 likes Like “Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: faith, faithfulness, love, promises 13052 likes Like “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil tags: love, relationships, romance 11567 likes Like “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby tags: love 11325 likes Like “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory 11057 likes Like “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist tags: love 11046 likes Like “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version tags: bible, love 10928 likes Like “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist tags: hope, inspiration, love, santiago 10902 likes Like “We love the things we love for what they are.” ― Robert Frost tags: love, poetry 10670 likes Like “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower tags: love 10580 likes Like “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice tags: love, mr-darcy 10536 likes Like “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet tags: love 10459 likes Like “You are, and always have been, my dream.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 10255 likes Like “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: friendship, love 10174 likes Like “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)” ― E.E. Cummings tags: love, poetry 10146 likes Like “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief tags: boys, hate, love 10011 likes Like “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist “And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass tags: cassandra-clare, city-of-glass, clary, jace, love, mortal-instruments 9787 likes Like “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” ― Oscar Wilde tags: love, ordinary, people 9515 likes Like “Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.” ― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them tags: happiness, inspirational, love, optimism, strength 9400 likes Like “Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi tags: life, love 9388 likes Like “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: love, pride, women 9298 likes Like “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” ― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum tags: heartbreak, life, living, love, strength 9271 likes Like “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love tags: love 8983 likes Like “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald tags: love 8976 likes Like “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook 8933 likes Like “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.” ― Lady Gaga tags: love, romance, work 8866 likes Like “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ― John Lennon tags: beatles, fear, life, love 8858 likes Like “We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 8799 likes Like “I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun tags: breakup, infidelity, love, pain, relationships 8561 likes Like “We loved with a love that was more than love.” ― Edgar Allan Poe tags: logic, love 8431 likes Like “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight tags: bella, edward, love 8392 likes Like “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: heartache, love 8391 likes Like “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato tags: love, poetry, song 8366 likes Like “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet tags: love 8347 likes Like “I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.” ― Shana Abe tags: love, romance 8210 likes Like “A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever” ― Dave Matthews Band tags: dave-matthews, friends, love, relationships 8010 likes Like “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park tags: art, love 7918 likes Like “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: love 7906 likes Like “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility tags: love, requirements 7851 likes Like “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches tags: hate, love 7676 likes Like “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth 7653 likes Like “What's meant to be will always find a way” ― Trisha Yearwood tags: fate, inspiration, love 7595 likes Like “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen 7574 likes Like “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ― Tom Bodett tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing 7313 likes Like “Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.” ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish tags: love 7295 likes Like “Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.” ― Milan Kundera “No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby tags: love 7172 likes Like “The heart was made to be broken.” ― Oscar Wilde tags: heartbreak, love 7168 likes Like “We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince tags: dreams, letters, love, love-at-first-sight, power-of-words, writing 7133 likes Like “Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.” ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version tags: 1-corinthians-13, love 7111 likes Like “I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: disappointment, love, romance 6994 likes Like “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet tags: food, love, music 6921 likes Like “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss tags: home, love, relationships, touching 6813 likes Like “You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me." She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. "But I don't want anything else in the world.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love 6743 likes Like “They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: dear-john, love, nicholas-sparks, romance, the-notebook 6724 likes Like “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones tags: love 6592 likes Like “I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.” ― Jon Katz tags: faith, friends, friendship, love 6556 likes Like “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” ― Pablo Neruda, Love tags: love 6508 likes Like “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring tags: hope, inspirational, love 6392 likes Like “To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.” ― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster tags: best-friends, heartbreak, love 6346 likes Like “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays tags: love, romance 6136 likes Like “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: love, madness 6093 likes Like “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: loss, love 6039 likes Like “What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke tags: love 6019 likes Like “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tags: love, relationships 5970 likes Like “My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks, the-notebook 5964 likes Like “And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.” ― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics tags: beatles, inspirational, live, love, music 5791 likes Like “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay tags: inspirational, love 5789 likes Like “It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.” ― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins tags: life, love, relationships 5745 likes Like “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey tags: love 5690 likes Like “If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.” ― Greg Behrendt tags: busy, call, dating, dating-advice, faith, greg-behrendt, guys, he-s-not-just-into-you, love, marriage,romance, true 5642 likes Like “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?” ― Mother Teresa tags: inspirational, love 5634 likes Like “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ― Joan Crawford tags: love 5596 likes Like “If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore tags: inspirational, love 5538 likes Like “My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours” ― Charles Bukowski tags: death, love 5510 likes Like “I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven tags: love 5463 likes Like “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ― Maya Angelou tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture, inspirational, love, trust 5438 likes Like “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita tags: humbert-humbert, love 5395 likes Like “We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.” ― Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe tags: being-loved, completion, inspirational, love, relationships 5391 likes Like “You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 5384 likes Like “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version tags: faith, god, hope, love 5324 likes Like “I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: love, romance 5317 likes Like “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.” ― Kahlil Gibran tags: life, love, romance 5098 likes Like “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.” ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tags: forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting 5082 likes Like “How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― Shel Silverstein tags: friend, friendship, good-day, how-many, how-much, life, live-well, love 5045 likes Like “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth tags: love 5041 likes Like “If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle tags: love 5039 likes Like “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice tags: love, romance 4919 likes Like “When love is not madness it is not love.” ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca tags: love, romance 4880 likes Like “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love 4860 likes Like “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” ― James Baldwin tags: love 4855 likes Like “Do you think I'm pretty? I think you're beautiful Beautiful? You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.” ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy tags: beauty, love 4854 likes Like “I love you. Remember. They cannot take it” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium tags: amor-deliria-nervosa, love 4852 likes Like “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love 4833 likes Like “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” ― Max Lucado tags: inspirational, love 4811 likes Like “What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones tags: humor, jace, love, mortal-instruments 4802 likes Like “True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle tags: love, romance 4787 likes Like “Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.” ― Gillian Anderson tags: friendship, love, men, relationships, women 4774 likes Like “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet tags: love, marriage 4559 likes Like “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ― Robert Frost tags: love 4549 likes Like “أجمل حب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بحثنا عن شيء آخر” ― أحلام مستغانمي tags: love, حب 4536 likes Like “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday tags: cry, inspirational, joke, love, romance, smile 4511 likes Like “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” ― Vincent van Gogh tags: art, inspiration, love, strength 4492 likes Like “I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina tags: care, diversity, heart, individuality, love, mind, seduction, soul 4383 likes Like “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” ― Emily Dickinson “I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer tags: love 4365 likes Like “There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. "I know, mate," said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, "so it's now or never, isn't it?" "Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?" Harry shouted. "D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?" "Yeah --- right --- sorry ---" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: love, romance, war 4347 likes Like “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Jimi Hendrix tags: hippy, love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone 4328 likes Like “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ” ― Agatha Christie, An Autobiography tags: love 4291 likes Like “Hate the sin, love the sinner.” ― Mahatma Gandhi tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners 4234 likes Like “The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe tags: love 4212 likes Like “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations tags: love 4204 likes Like “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness tags: happiness, love 4200 likes Like “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald tags: love 4161 likes Like “One love, one heart, one destiny.” ― Bob Marley tags: bob-marley, compassion, destiny, heart, humanity, inspirational, love 4132 likes Like “Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land” ― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems tags: forgetting, heartbreak, inspirational, living, love, moving-on 4092 likes Like “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?” ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes tags: death, heart, love 4091 likes Like “It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” ― Stephenie Meyer, The Host tags: inspirational, love 4086 likes Like “What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tags: love, soul, stars 4071 likes Like “All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me tags: compassion, empathy, loneliness, love 4027 likes Like “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: growing, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, learning,life-and-living, life-lessons, love, people, real-love, reality, reality-of-life, those-who-love-us, to-be-loved,true-love, what-matters 3997 likes Like “You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby tags: love 3994 likes Like “If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley, Guitar Chord Songbook - Bob Marley tags: inspirational, love 3970 likes Like “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” ― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View tags: love, poets, romance 3970 likes Like “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women tags: love, pain, relationships, self 3946 likes Like “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!” ― Scott Adams tags: food, humor, love 3945 likes Like “To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” ― Taylor Swift tags: fearless, inspirational, love 3942 likes Like “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ― Albert Einstein tags: love 3922 likes Like “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.” ― Tom Robbins tags: love, sex 3904 likes Like “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov tags: hell, love, suffering 3898 likes Like “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay tags: longing, love, missing, sadness 3895 likes Like “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.” ― Charles Dickens tags: kissing, love, romance 3884 likes Like “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness 3881 likes Like “And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tags: bestseller, love, nicholas-sparks, north-carolina, novel 3879 likes Like “Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.” ― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover “Find what you love and let it kill you.” ― Charles Bukowski tags: love 3825 likes Like “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.” ― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story tags: acceptance, life, love, worth 3817 likes Like “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” ― C.S. Lewis tags: love 3815 likes Like “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: death, love 3783 likes Like “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom 3777 likes Like “Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song tags: life, love, music, simile, song 3761 likes Like “It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.” ― Coco Chanel tags: autonomy, bachelorhood, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, love, marriage,matrimony, men, self-determination, self-sufficiency, singles, strength, women 3748 likes Like “Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.” ― Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin tags: love 3733 likes Like “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own tags: food, love 3726 likes Like “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” ― Paulo Coelho tags: love 3716 likes Like “I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair tags: love 3712 likes Like “Look after my heart - I've left it with you.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse tags: bella, edward, love, twilight-saga 3703 likes Like “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.” ― Margaret Atwood tags: love, obsession, sleep 3680 likes Like “He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief tags: heartbreak, love, sad 3677 likes Like “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ― Maya Angelou tags: courage, love, trust 3655 likes Like “And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: hunger-games, katniss-everdeen, love, peeta-mellark, smile, suzanne-collins 3643 likes Like “You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.” ― Milan Kundera tags: love 3607 likes Like “How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet "You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh” ― A.A. Milne tags: love, piglet, pooh-bear, winnie-the-pooh 3556 likes Like “Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.” ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair tags: love, sadness 3554 likes Like “Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.” ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon tags: edward, light, love, reason 3545 likes Like “Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” ― David Byrne tags: love 3517 likes Like “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.” ― Pablo Neruda tags: love, poetry 3493 likes Like “Happiness [is] only real when shared” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage 3465 likes Like “Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul tags: acceptance, letting-go, love, moving-on 3464 likes Like “As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” ― Pablo Neruda tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion 3453 likes Like “Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms tags: infatuation, love 3441 likes Like “A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief tags: children, love 3424 likes Like “One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.” ― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever tags: kiss, love 3405 likes Like “Was it hard?" I ask. Letting go?" Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.” ― Lisa Schroeder tags: heartbreak, life, love 3391 likes Like “I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.” ― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them” ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth 3390 likes Like “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.” ― A.A. Milne tags: goodbyes, love 3365 likes Like “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.” ― Haruki Murakami tags: love 3351 likes Like “Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent tags: love 3349 likes Like “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story tags: art, love, profound 3345 likes Like “I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince tags: devotion, love, love-at-first-sight, true-love 3345 likes Like “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby tags: affection, amity, love 3343 likes Like “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: love 3299 likes Like “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.” ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell tags: love 3257 likes Like “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, time 3252 likes Like “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” ― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love tags: grief, grieving, hope, loss, love, pain, sadness, strength, tears 3227 likes Like “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” ― Sharon Salzberg tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom 3213 likes Like “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 tags: alone, birth, death, growing-up, growth, life, lonely, love, self-respect 3213 likes Like “She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief tags: love, the-book-thief 3178 likes Like “The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tags: life, love, passion 3154 likes Like “If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love, nicholas-sparks, relationships, the-choice 3137 likes Like “You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time." "I've been thinking about you, too." "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes tags: die, love, romance 3132 likes Like “I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant tags: agency, choices, love 3096 likes Like “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun tags: longing, love 3088 likes Like “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tags: love 3055 likes Like “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas tags: books, love, reading 3052 likes Like “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” ― Orhan Pamuk, Snow tags: happiness, love 3040 likes Like “In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 3040 likes Like “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ― Mary Oliver tags: box, darkness, gift, love 3038 likes Like “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” ― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband tags: love 3011 likes Like “I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair tags: hell, love, safe 3010 likes Like “I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me tags: beautiful, couples, kiss, love, metaphor, need, ya 2957 likes Like “Who, being loved, is poor?” ― Oscar Wilde tags: love 2944 likes Like “I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever tags: life, love 2938 likes Like “Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos tags: humanity, individuality, love, mercy 3156 likes Like “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality 3070 likes Like “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan tags: life, love 2979 likes Like “I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.” ― Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas tags: inspiration, love, story-people 2917 likes Like “Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire tags: catching-fire, katniss-and-peeta, katniss-everdeen, love, peeta-mellark, romance, the-hunger-games 2909 likes Like “Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.” ― Mitch Albom tags: love 2901 likes Like “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.” ― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories tags: love 2892 likes Like “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: goodbye, inspiration, love 2891 likes Like “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents 2886 likes Like “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club tags: love 2878 likes Like “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” ― Arrigo Boito tags: love 2868 likes Like “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tags: love, separation 2849 likes Like “Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath tags: dreams, infatuation, love, sensation, thoughts 2843 likes Like “What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.” ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tags: adoration, infatuation, love 2840 likes Like “I know we're fucked up, alright? I'm impulsive, and hot tempered, and you get under my skin like no one else. You act like you hate me one minute, and then need me the next. I never get anything right, and I don't deserve you...but I fucking love you, Abby. I love you more than I loved anyone or anything ever. When you're around, I don't need booze, or money, or the fighting, or the one-night stands...” ― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster tags: love 2835 likes Like “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina tags: love, respect 2834 likes Like “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” ― Elie Wiesel tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing 2825 likes Like “One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” ― Sophocles tags: love, pain 2808 likes Like “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.” ― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun tags: love 2805 likes Like “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tags: books, learning, love, serenity 2752 likes Like “I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Lick of Frost tags: inspirational, love, relationships 2747 likes Like “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt tags: love 2742 likes Like “I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium tags: give, love, sacrifice 2737 likes Like “The more one judges, the less one loves.” ― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage tags: human-nature, love 2733 likes Like “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” ― Blaise Pascal tags: heart, love, quip, reason 2728 likes Like “Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.” ― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems tags: beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks 2719 likes Like “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer tags: desperate, life, losing, love, nostalgia, pain, regret, solitude 2716 likes Like “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...” ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight tags: at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks 2714 likes Like “From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.” ― Edgar Allan Poe tags: heartache, loss, love 2690 likes Like “Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park “If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.” ― Johnny Depp tags: humour, love 2689 likes Like “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince tags: friendship, love, responsibility 2688 likes Like “Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.” ― Julio Cortázar tags: love, poem, relationships, romance 2687 likes Like “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” ― E.E. Cummings tags: decisions, love, stars, taking-chances 2660 likes Like “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” ― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange tags: love 2629 likes Like “When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts...all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair. And six pairs of hands." The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way." It's not the hands that are causing me problems," God remarked, "it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have." That's on the standard model?" asked the angel. God nodded. One pair that sees through closed doors when she asks, 'What are you kids doing in there?' when she already knows. Another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say. 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word." God," said the angel touching his sleeve gently, "Get some rest tomorrow...." I can't," said God, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick...can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger...and can get a nine year old to stand under a shower." The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's too soft," she sighed. But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure." Can it think?" Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator. Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek. There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told You that You were trying to put too much into this model." It's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear." What's it for?" It's for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride." You are a genius, " said the angel. Somberly, God said, "I didn't put it there.” ― Erma Bombeck, When God Created Mothers tags: children, family, humor, love, mothers, mothers-day, sadness 2607 likes Like “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran tags: emotion, heartbreak, lost-love, love, parting 2604 likes Like “If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay tags: infatuation, life, love, self-sacrifice 2587 likes Like “When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day tags: love 2584 likes Like “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” ― Lauren Conrad tags: crying, heartache, love, sadness, tears 2559 likes Like “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims tags: love 2549 likes Like “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.” ― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe tags: couples, deep, dissapointment, fate, heart, inspirational, love, people, romance 2524 likes Like “Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo tags: crescendo, love, patch 2520 likes Like “Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held. He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me. “Let go of me!” I yelled back. But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again. See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free. I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you." Then I plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That’s what I was supposed to say. . .” he gasped out. Those were his last words.” ― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise tags: blood, bridge, death, dhampir, dimitri, love, magic, promise, rose, stake, strigoi 2514 likes Like “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning tags: love, sonnet 2506 likes Like “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” ― Albert Einstein tags: love 2488 likes Like “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.” ― Ellen Bass tags: acceptance, hope, life, love 2483 likes Like “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage tags: acceptance, being-loved, love, marriage, relationships, truth 2483 likes Like “I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?” ― Stephanie Lennox, I Don't Remember You tags: fighting, funny, humour, husband, inspirational, love, lover, relationships, romance, spiritual, sweet,wife 2473 likes Like “Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle tags: grief, love 2468 likes Like “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.” ― David Nicholls, One Day tags: hope, love 2467 likes Like “I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free tags: action, being-loved, inspirational, life, love, relationships 2449 likes Like “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: love 2424 likes Like “True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.” ― Kiera Cass, The Selection tags: inconvenient, love, relationship, true-love 2420 likes Like “Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.” ― Hafiz tags: life, love, sky, sun 2410 likes Like “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tags: attraction, love 2405 likes Like “You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body tags: loss, love 2397 likes Like “When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.” ― Fred Rogers tags: friends, friendship, love, peace 2394 likes Like “We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena tags: annabeth-chase, emotion, heartbreak, love, percy-jackson 2385 likes Like “Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.” ― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” ― Charles M. Schulz tags: humor, love 2575 likes Like “To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything tags: love 2344 likes Like “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley tags: kiss, love, nature 2318 likes Like “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet tags: aloneness, change, common-ground, faith, love, loved-ones, relationships, solitude 2313 likes Like “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.” ― Jodi Picoult, Mercy tags: inequality, love, marriage 2285 likes Like “The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones tags: love, mormont 2265 likes Like “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.” ― André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings tags: love, madness 2256 likes Like “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” ― Anaïs Nin tags: dreams, life, love 2254 likes Like “If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.” ― Chuck Palahniuk tags: humor, love 2249 likes Like “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” ― John Henry Newman tags: god, inspirational, love 2222 likes Like “The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.” ― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon tags: bella, edward, love 2213 likes Like “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing 2200 likes Like “Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when they are sad, Being together in good times, And being together in bad times. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH. Love is . . . Being honest with yourself at all times, Being honest with the other person at all times, Telling, listening, respecting the truth, And never pretending. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF REALITY. Love is . . . An understanding so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person, Accepting the other person just the way they are, And not trying to change them to be something else. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF UNITY. Love is . . . The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, The growth of one individual alongside of and together with the growth of another individual. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SUCCESS. Love is . . . The excitement of planning things together, The excitement of doing things together. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF THE FUTURE. Love is . . . The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF PASSION. Love is . . . Giving and taking in a daily situation, Being patient with each other's needs and desires. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SHARING. Love is . . . Knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, Missing the other person when they are away but remaining near in heart at all times. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SECURITY. LOVE IS . . . THE SOURCE OF LIFE!” ― Susan Polis Schutz tags: love 2198 likes Like “The course of true love never did run smooth.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream tags: love, true-love 2197 likes Like “livid, adj. Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.” ― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary tags: cheating, hate, infidelity, love 2189 likes Like “This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist tags: love 2188 likes Like “I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tags: heartbreak, love 2176 likes Like “sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!” ― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess tags: life, love, shopaholic, sophie 2176 likes Like “I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss tags: etienne-st-clair, love, secret 2168 likes Like “The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.” ― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian tags: infatuation, love, obsession 2163 likes Like “The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” ― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes tags: fear, heart, love, regret 2161 likes Like “We are who we are, be¬cause of those we choose to love and be¬cause of those who love us.” ― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts tags: love 2157 likes Like “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ” ― Elinor Glyn tags: inspiration, love, romance 2155 likes Like “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.” ― Walter Mosley, Blue Light tags: change, growth, love 2147 likes Like “Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay tags: katniss, love, mockingjay, peeta, romance 2144 likes Like “I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.” ― Greg Behrendt tags: behrendt, call, dating, faith, greg, he-s-not-just-into-you, love, marriage, romance, true, true-love, truth 2141 likes Like “Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club tags: love 2139 likes Like “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince” ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey tags: love 2132 likes Like “About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.” ― Rita Mae Brown tags: be-yourself, individuality, love 2131 likes Like “When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John “You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.” ― Toni Morrison tags: emotion, love, self-respect, value 2244 likes Like “To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. It’s FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. I think it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright…That’sFEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.” ― Taylor Swift tags: fearless, love 2195 likes Like “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood tags: love 2135 likes Like “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.” ― D.H. Lawrence tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate 2129 likes Like “In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.” ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders tags: love, sex 2105 likes Like “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary” ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander tags: love 2096 likes Like “If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated tags: life, love 2087 likes Like “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe tags: answers, love, true, universe 2083 likes Like “Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...” ― Elizabeth Gilbert tags: heartbreak, love, mourning 2081 likes Like “The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.” ― Scott Westerfeld tags: love 2073 likes Like “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love” ― Gabriel García Márquez tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex 2072 likes Like “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.” ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding 2071 likes Like “When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.” ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes tags: love 2066 likes Like “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: ardor, classic, heathcliff, love 2051 likes Like “Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice tags: love 2039 likes Like “It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver tags: grace-brisbane, love, sam-roth, shiver 2032 likes Like “The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.” ― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills tags: love 2016 likes Like “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart tags: authentic-living, being-positive, blessed, compassion, hate, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, judgment, less-more, life, life-purpose, life-quotes, living, love, mind, motivation, optimism,optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, smile, smiles, spirituality, stress,stressed, worry, worrying 1994 likes Like “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.” ― William Shakespeare tags: love, romeo-and-juliet 1984 likes Like “Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword” ― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol tags: 1897, betrayal, bravery, courage, love, remorse 1965 likes Like “I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence,integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women 1961 likes Like “If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief tags: childhood, laughter, love, oblivious 1947 likes Like “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves” ― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate tags: fire, love, lust, matches 1943 likes Like “Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.” ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving tags: decision, feeling, fromm, love 1931 likes Like “I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.” ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn tags: happiness, lost-love, love 1928 likes Like “But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness. The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.” ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tags: love 1913 likes Like “I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” ― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three 1891 likes Like “love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love, the-meaning-of-love 1881 likes Like “The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.” ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume tags: logic, love 1878 likes Like “The soul is healed by being with children.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky “I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body. I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me tags: love 2067 likes Like “Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight tags: bella-swan, love 1967 likes Like “Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” ― Mitch Albom tags: death, immortality, love 1947 likes Like “It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” ― Mother Teresa tags: charity, giving, love 1907 likes Like “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet tags: love, romeo-and-juliet, values, waste 1889 likes Like “I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.” ― Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters tags: ernest-hemingway, feminism, hate, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, men, mothers, psychology,relationships, sons, women 1887 likes Like “You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” ― Richard Siken tags: love 1872 likes Like “Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine." Tessa stared at him, all black and white against the black-and-white snow and stone. "Your name?" Will took a step toward her, till they stood face-to-face. Then he reached to take her hand and slid off her glove, which he put into his pocket. He held her bare hand in his, his fingers curved around hers. His hand was warm and callused, and his touch made her shiver. His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything that Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. "Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be called Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess tags: clockwork-princess, love, marriage-proposal, tessa-gray, will-herondale 1865 likes Like “And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death.” ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery tags: death, love 1859 likes Like “I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tags: life, love, secrets 1856 likes Like “And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones tags: clary, clary-and-jace, humor, jace, jace-and-clary, love 1839 likes Like “NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson tags: love, sexuality 1835 likes Like “Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.” ― Rick Riordan tags: cute, isaiat, kiss, love, mart, percy-jackson, underwater 1835 likes Like “Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels tags: broken-hearted, healing, heartbreak, inspirational, love 1832 likes Like “She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 1830 likes Like “True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.” ― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller tags: inspirational, love 1819 likes Like “I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. ” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: love 1813 likes Like “Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.” ― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 tags: climax, ecstasy, fulfillment, joy, love, men, passion, sensuality, sexuality, women 1810 likes Like “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” ― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love tags: faith, god, inspirational, love 1805 likes Like “Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride tags: absurd, beauty, conceit, humor, love 1798 likes Like “Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” ― Anaïs Nin tags: anxiety, love, saveing 1796 likes Like “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: be-yourself, love, self-actualization 1782 likes Like “By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.” ― Dorothy Parker tags: courtship, cynicism, love, lying, passion 1781 likes Like “That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.” ― Deb Caletti tags: family, friends, hugs, life, lovable, love, people 1781 likes Like “It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tags: being-left, love, time, waiting 1778 likes Like “You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.” ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry tags: love 1776 likes Like “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being tags: love, monogamy, polygamy, sleep 1776 likes Like “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.” ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 tags: hope, love 1775 likes Like “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” ― E.E. Cummings tags: love, moon, stars, sun 1760 likes Like “In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ” ― Ellen Goodman tags: forgiveness, gratefulness, love 1835 likes Like “Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart” ― Tammara Webber, Easy tags: logic, love 1823 likes Like “It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me- Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we- Of many far wiser than we- And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.” ― Edgar Allan Poe tags: beautiful, lost-love, love 1817 likes Like “When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth...... But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself." But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.” ― Kahlil Gibran, Le Prophète tags: love, marriage 1814 likes Like “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything” ― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life tags: love 1778 likes Like “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper tags: dating, julia-romano, love, unrequited 1771 likes Like “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness,poverty, soul 1760 likes Like “I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: augustus-waters, bittersweet, hazel-grace, love, sad, sweet, the-fault-in-our-stars 1754 likes Like “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” ― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life tags: awareness, caring, discipline, freedom, love, people, sacrifice 1747 likes Like “When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.” ― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love tags: lost-love, love 1741 likes Like “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love, nicholas-sparks, romance 1739 likes Like “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet tags: infatuation, love, passion 1735 likes Like “I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.” ― L.J. Smith tags: destiny, james, love, nightworld, soulmate 1730 likes Like “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression tags: belief, bravery, courage, depression, eating, exercise, food, future, life, living, love, loved-ones,medication, memories, reason, strength 1726 likes Like “Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?” ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle tags: essence, friendship, important, love, people, philosophy, possibility, thought 1725 likes Like “If you're a bird... I'm a bird...” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 1722 likes Like “Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring barque, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.” ― William Shakespeare, Great Sonnets tags: love, poetry, shakespeare 1720 likes Like “The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.” ― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us tags: inspirational, love 1716 likes Like “here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun tags: hurt, love 1706 likes Like “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ― Erich Segal tags: love 1703 likes Like “I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: broken-heart, inspirtational, life, love, optimism 1702 likes Like “Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.” ― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt tags: exes, friendship, love 1702 likes Like “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Sharon Salzberg tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom 1700 likes Like “Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.” ― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty tags: bellys, love, missed-chances, romance 1699 likes Like “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love, passion, romance 1699 likes Like “I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.” ― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster tags: love, romance 1698 likes Like “I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.” ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact tags: love 1693 likes Like “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” ― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature tags: love, realization 1687 likes Like “Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?" Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully. Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell. "Because she was crying," Harry continued heavily. "Oh," said Ron, his smile faded slightly. "Are you that bad at kissing?" "Dunno," said Harry, who hadn't considered this, and immediately felt rather worried. "Maybe I am.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tags: dating, harry-potter, kiss, love, ron-weasley 1680 likes Like “Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle “People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.” ― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility tags: happiness, love, relationships, responsibility, unconditional-love 1795 likes Like “I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things.You think about the person you love for two minutes then forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."- By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept” ― Paulo Coelho tags: inspiration, life, life-lessons, love, paulo-coelho 1793 likes Like “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: catherine, haunting, heathcliff, love, malediction, restlessness 1766 likes Like “and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.” ― Jodi Picoult tags: death, heart, love, mourning, suicide 1710 likes Like “I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.” ― Neil Gaiman, World's End tags: death, friends, love 1708 likes Like “If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.” ― Pablo Neruda tags: love 1690 likes Like “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind 1673 likes Like “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.” ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary tags: insanity, love, marriage 1668 likes Like “What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park tags: love, soulmate 1662 likes Like “It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.” ― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List tags: friendship, love, romance 1662 likes Like “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.” ― George Eliot tags: love 1658 likes Like “That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.” ― Jim Morrison tags: love, pretense, self-esteem, self-image, wisdom 1656 likes Like “You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince tags: caring, inspirational, love, roses, uniqueness 1651 likes Like “Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.” ― bell hooks tags: abuse, commitment, love, men, relationships, women 1651 likes Like “I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant tags: fear, love, power, powerful 1650 likes Like “My name is Ashallyn'darkmyr Tallyn, third son of the Unseelie Court...Let it be known--from this day forth, I vow to protect Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King, with my sword, my honor, and my life. Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit. This I swear, on my honor, my True Name, and my life. From this day on..." His voice went even softer, but I still heard it as though he whispered it into my ear. "I am yours.” ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen tags: heartfelt, honor, love 1649 likes Like “If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight.” ― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why tags: love 1644 likes Like “In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: love 1642 likes Like “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 1639 likes Like “There is always something left to love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude tags: love 1625 likes Like “It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose; to teach you an important lesson or to keep you safe during a perilous time. What you must do is trust in them--even if they come hand in hand with pain or suffering--the reason for their presence will become clear in due time." Though here is a word of warning--you may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn't to save you but to show you how to save yourself. And once this is fulfilled; the halo lifts and the angel leaves their body as the person exits your life. They will be a stranger to you once more. ------------------------------------------------- It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me. That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it but everyone else can.” ― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure tags: angels, beautiful, love, magic, saviour, soulmate, words 1624 likes Like “You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: inspirational, inspirational-love, inspiring, love, men, passion, real-love, the-love-of-a-man, true-love 1616 likes Like “You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.” ― Bob Marley tags: bob-marley, famous, love, marely 1611 likes Like “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” ― Doris Lessing tags: friendship, love, trust 1610 likes Like “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent van Gogh tags: art, love 1592 likes Like “We must love one another or die” ― W.H. Auden tags: love 1590 likes Like “Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood tags: endurance, life, loss, love 1583 likes Like “If a thing loves, it is infinite.” ― William Blake tags: love 1583 likes Like “I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper tags: love 1566 likes Like “Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina “i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.” ― E.E. Cummings tags: love, poetry 1684 likes Like “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!” ― T.D. Jakes tags: christian, god, love, marriage, men, religion, spirituality, women 1637 likes Like “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart tags: being-human, goodness, human, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational,inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, kindness,life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, love, optimism, optimistic, positive,positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, smile, smiles 1627 likes Like “And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority." "She is my priority!" Will shouted.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess tags: love, tessa-gray, will-herondale 1571 likes Like “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” ― Roald Dahl, The Witches tags: love 1558 likes Like “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms tags: chances, commitment, courtship, dating, faithfulness, friendship, love, marriage, mates, patience,relationships, risk-taking, soulmates, waiting-for-true-love 1555 likes Like “Love is a better master than duty.” ― Albert Einstein tags: love 1548 likes Like “Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone tags: death, love 1544 likes Like “After all this time?" "Always...” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: love 1541 likes Like “Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut. Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck. Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead. I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. -From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium tags: love, vampire, werewolf 1537 likes Like “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ― Victor Hugo tags: love 1536 likes Like “He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude tags: companionship, love, romance 1535 likes Like “You are like nobody since I love you.” ― Pablo Neruda tags: love 1534 likes Like “Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.' 'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.' 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?' 'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.” ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit tags: acceptance, ageing, authenticity, becoming, being-loved, being-real, love 1523 likes Like “She didn't understand that. "How can anyone be afraid of love?" "How can they not?" His face was completely aghast. "When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling—like having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed, wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you? That no one can love you? To have it happen once is bad enough... but to have it repeated? Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that?” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Devil May Cry tags: archeron, ash, kat, katra, love 1518 likes Like “No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters tags: love 1516 likes Like “They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: burning, fire, flames, freedom, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-love-quotes,inspirational-quotes, inspiring, love, loving-someone, passion, real-love, running, true-love 1510 likes Like “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices,romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love 1510 likes Like “What greater gift than the love of a cat.” ― Charles Dickens tags: cats, gifts, love 1507 likes Like “People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage tags: dating, love, marriage 1502 likes Like “Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl tags: happiness, happy-endings, love 1502 likes Like “He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.” ― Marie Lu, Prodigy tags: day, june, love 1496 likes Like “He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones tags: ardor, city-of-bones, clary-fray, jace-wayland, love 1490 likes Like “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.” ― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly tags: kill-me-softly, love, real-love, sarah-cross, unrequited-love 1483 likes Like “No," Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face toward mine, our foreheads nearly touching. "It won't happen to you. You're too strong. You'll fight it, just like you did this time." "I only did because you were here." He wrapped his arms around me, and I buried my face in his chest. "I can't do it by myself," I whispered. "You can," he said. There was a tremulous note in his voice. "You're strong—you're so, so strong. It's why I love you.” ― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss tags: love, vampire-academy 1469 likes Like “In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.” ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tags: love 1465 likes Like “Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.” ― Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11 tags: love 1458 likes Like “We are all worthy of one another.” ― Edward P. Jones, The Known World tags: love, worthiness 1456 likes Like “The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby tags: love 1450 likes Like “Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.” ― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries “In love, no question is ever preposterous.” ― André Brink, Before I Forget tags: love 1686 likes Like “Lovers alone wear sunlight.” ― E.E. Cummings “Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.” ― Tessa Dare, A Lady of Persuasion “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” ― Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” ― Maya Angelou “There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tags: idealizations, love 1484 likes Like “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride tags: adoration, ardor, love 1481 likes Like “I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes” ― Vladimir Nabokov tags: infatuation, love, memory, recollection, remembrance 1468 likes Like “The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” ― W. Somerset Maugham tags: love 1465 likes Like “If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.” ― John Lennon tags: 1960s, beatles, love, peace, sixties 1465 likes Like “The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.” ― Jodi Picoult “Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym tags: love 1438 likes Like “If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't” ― Cassandra Clare tags: life, life-lesson, love 1436 likes Like “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: distance, love 1434 likes Like “I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest." His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me. Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.” ― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber tags: love, outlander 1433 likes Like “He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song tags: love 1430 likes Like “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will” ― John Green, Paper Towns tags: life, love, margo-roth-spiegelman, truth 1429 likes Like “I think we ought to live happily ever after.” ― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle tags: happily-ever-after, love 1422 likes Like “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.” ― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper tags: longing, love, sadness 1408 likes Like “I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue tags: love 1406 likes Like “If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.” ― Susane Colasanti, Waiting For You tags: dating-advice, love, relationships 1405 likes Like “Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.” ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes tags: love, sex 1395 likes Like “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: eat, elizabeth-gilbert, love, pray 1393 likes Like “Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: fidelity, infatuation, love, unrequited-love 1392 likes Like “Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to come.” ― Ludovic Halévy tags: love, opera 1384 likes Like “Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: adoration, fidelity, love 1512 likes Like “Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.” ― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember tags: bitterness, disability, disappointment, emptiness, feelings, fulfillment, happiness, hope, joy, love,potential, relationships, self-awareness 1482 likes Like “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ” ― Colette tags: collapse, curiosity, flowers, friendly, friends, grief, letter, love, smile, tears 1447 likes Like “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” ― Brené Brown tags: belonging, courage, inspirational, light, love, vulnerability 1429 likes Like “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” ― E.E. Cummings tags: love 1423 likes Like “With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird tags: love 1421 likes Like “When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care tags: love 1420 likes Like “You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception tags: beautiful, completion, love, music, recognition, sad 1415 likes Like “It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.” ― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena tags: absence, annabeth-chase, heroes-of-olympus, inspirational, love, percy-jackson, percy-jackson-and-the-olympians, relationship, separation, the-mark-of-athena 1411 likes Like “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” ― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer tags: love 1399 likes Like “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind 1396 likes Like “I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: love, passion 1374 likes Like “To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera tags: beauty, love 1373 likes Like “If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.” ― Kathleen Tessaro tags: love, romance 1371 likes Like “It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tags: love, time 1369 likes Like “Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon tags: love 1367 likes Like “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: affection, attraction, love 1359 likes Like “Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart tags: character, class, common-sense, dignity, happiness, health, inner-peace, inspiration, inspirational,inspirational-quotes, integrity, life, life-quotes, love, manners, money, morals, patience, respect, time, trust 1356 likes Like “I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath tags: acceptance, love 1343 likes Like “I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay tags: lost, love 1339 likes Like “Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I no longer Remember your hands; how did your lips Feel on mine? Because of you, I love the white statues Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that Have neither voice nor sight. I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice; I have forgotten your eyes. Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to My vague memory of you. I live with pain That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will Make to me an irreperable harm. Your caresses enfold me, like climbing Vines on melancholy walls. I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to Glimpse you in every window. Because of you, the heady perfumes of Summer pain me; because of you, I again Seek out the signs that precipitate desires: Shooting stars, falling objects.” ― Pablo Neruda tags: love, poetry 1330 likes Like “Heaven would never be heaven without you.” ― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come tags: heaven, love 1329 likes Like “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.” ― L.M. Montgomery tags: love, romance 1324 likes Like “What would you do if I kissed you right now?" I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back.” ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer tags: beautiful, couples, hot, kiss, love, mara-dyer, noah-shaw, ya 1323 likes Like “We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.” ― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List tags: friendship, love, reflection, trust 1320 likes Like “I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss tags: love 1320 likes Like “The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind tags: love 1315 likes Like “Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if oyu planned on fallin gin love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love 1306 likes Like “You really love her don't you," she said. With all my heart." She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her. What's your heart telling you to do?" I don't know." Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love, romance 1301 likes Like “Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart “[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.” ― Jenny O'Connell, The Book of Luke tags: honesty, life, life-lessons, love 1496 likes Like “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: heart, love, seperation, soul 1470 likes Like “The best things in life make you sweaty.” ― Edgar Allan Poe tags: inspirational, life, love, meaning-of-life, philosophical, puberty, purpose 1448 likes Like “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.” ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker tags: love 1374 likes Like “My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.” ― Jodi Picoult tags: daughters, growing-up, love, mothers 1368 likes Like “I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm. Your eyes are like that, did you know? Well they are. How many minutes ago was I? Twenty? Had I brought my feelings up to then? It doesn't matter.' Buttercup still could not look at him. The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage. 'I love you so much more now than twenty minutes ago that there cannot be comparison. I love you so much more now then when you opened your hovel door, there cannot be comparison. There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection. My mind begs you to ask it something so it can obey. Do you want me to follow you for the rest of your days? I will do that. Do you want me to crawl? I will crawl. I will be quiet for you or sing for you, or if you are hungry, let me bring you food, or if you have thirst and nothing will quench it but Arabian wine, I will go to Araby, even though it is across the world, and bring a bottle back for your lunch. Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do. I know I cannot compete with the Countess in skills or wisdom or appeal, and I saw the way she looked at you. And I saw the way you looked at her. But remember, please, that she is old and has other interests, while I am seventeen and for me there is only you. Dearest Westley--I've never called you that before, have I?--Westley, Westley, Westley, Westley, Westley,--darling Westley, adored Westley, sweet perfect Westley, whisper that I have a chance to win your love.' And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done; she looked right into his eyes.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride tags: love 1364 likes Like “Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet tags: faith, love, strength 1360 likes Like “We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.” ― Robert Fulghum, True Love tags: love, misattributed-dr-seuss, weirdness 1335 likes Like “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ― Maya Angelou tags: love 1330 likes Like “I know my heart will never be the same But I'm telling myself I'll be okay” ― Sara Evans tags: breakups, couples, heartbreak, love, relationships 1319 likes Like “My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.” ― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere tags: death, grief, grieving, loss, love, sadness 1308 likes Like “It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.” ― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road tags: love 1305 likes Like “You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: katniss, love, peeta 1303 likes Like “Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart tags: appreciate, change, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life,inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, laugh, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, love,optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, relationship, respect,smile, value 1299 likes Like “This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.” ― David Levithan, Every Day tags: love, writing 1294 likes Like “We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: life, love, survival, ya, young-adult 1290 likes Like “We can't..." he told me. "I know," I agreed. Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time, I knew there would be no turning back. There were no walls this time. Our bodies wrapped together as he tried to get my coat off, then his shirt, then my shirt. ... It really was a lot like when we'd fought out on the quad earlier-that same passion and heat. I think at the end of the day, the instincts that power fighting and sex aren't so different. They all come from an animal side of us. Yet, as more and more clothes came off, it went beyond just animal passion. It was sweet and wonderful at the same time. When I looked into his eyes, I could see without a doubt that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was his salvation, the same way that he was mine. I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.” ― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss tags: love, vampire-academy 1284 likes Like “Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky." "She's drunk," Joe Bell informed me. "Moderately," Holly confessed....Holly lifted her martini. "Let's wish the Doc luck, too," she said, touching her glass against mine. "Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.” ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's tags: love, wildness 1283 likes Like “To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.” ― Bertrand Russell tags: life, love 1273 likes Like “Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.” ― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood tags: agape, family, life, love, unconditional-love 1273 likes Like “There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.” ― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie tags: leaving, letting-go, love, loving, separating, separation 1264 likes Like “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” ― Emily Dickinson tags: love, morning 1264 likes Like “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd; By thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.” ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets tags: love, shakespeare, youth 1259 likes Like “One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with. To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not. When it isn't there (as I have learned in the past, with heartbreaking clarity) you can no more force it to exist than a surgeon can force a patient's body to accept a kidney from the wrong donor. My friend Annie says it all comes down to one simple question: "Do you want your belly pressed against this person's belly forever --or not?” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: love 1244 likes Like “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.” ― Mahatma Gandhi tags: brotherly-love, enemies, fighting, love, peace, trial, victory 1240 likes Like “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. I love you, T.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle tags: lost-love, love 1229 likes Like “It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.” ― Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer tags: control, love, strength, weakness 1228 likes Like “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.” ― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love tags: love 1226 likes Like “You are my life now.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight tags: bella, edward-cullen, entertainment, love 1225 likes Like “The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.” ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes “When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: boyfriend, girlfriend, inspirational, jealous, life, love, marriage, men, motivational, relationship, women 1424 likes Like “We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire tags: clary-fray, fear, hope, jem-carstairs, life, loss, love, memory, shadowhunters, the-infernal-devices 1403 likes Like “Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Intern tags: desire, funny, honesty, humor, humour, love, lust, passion, relationships, romance, sex, truth, wisdom,young, young-adult, young-adults, youth 1397 likes Like “I may not always be with you But when we're far apart Remember you will be with me Right inside my heart” ― Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart tags: family, friendship, inspirational, love, poetry, relationships 1302 likes Like “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” ― G.K. Chesterton tags: enemies, love, neighbors 1279 likes Like “Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together." "It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?" "It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get me through you." "What if I don't care?" "I care. How do you think I'd feel if this was your funeral...and it was my fault...” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: death, ginny-weasley, harry-potter, love, voldemort 1251 likes Like “We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are tags: affection, betrayal, blame, connection, disrespect, love, self, shame, vulnerability 1240 likes Like “And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart tags: aloneness, love 1239 likes Like “Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding” ― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head. tags: love, poetry, spirituality 1232 likes Like “I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium tags: fight, life, love 1207 likes Like “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 1207 likes Like “Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back. "You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward. "I can't." "I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret." "Tell me." I loved it when he was like this. "I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it." "Why me?" "Because you're the reason. Swear it." "I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. "I swear it," he echoed. We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned. "I feel like I could eat the world raw.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles tags: fame, happiness, heroes, love, mythology, oaths 1205 likes Like “It's the imperfections that make things beautiful” ― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty tags: awesome, love, we-ll-always-have-summer 1202 likes Like “If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)” ― Jeaniene Frost tags: death, eternity, love, romance, waiting 1202 likes Like “What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same beliefs?” ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice tags: faith, love 1195 likes Like “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” ― Dalai Lama XIV tags: love 1193 likes Like “When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: infatuation, love, love-struck, obsession 1192 likes Like “Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.” ― Neil Gaiman tags: four-letter-word, love 1192 likes Like “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations tags: fate, love, people 1190 likes Like “Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay tags: gayle-forman, if-i-stay, love 1189 likes Like “I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.” ― Robert Michaels tags: advice, kindness, leadership, love, management, people, respect, success 1188 likes Like “One day spent with someone you love can change everything.” ― Mitch Albom, For One More Day tags: change, love, time 1188 likes Like “His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.” ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tags: heart, love 1183 likes Like “She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: belonging, belonging-to-someone, boy-meets-girl, craziness, crazy, heartwarming, inspirational-love,love, lovers, wonderful 1181 likes Like “Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book tags: awakening, choice, dance, identity, individuality, life, love, name, pain, pleasure, sleep, treasure 1174 likes Like “You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave?” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: betrayal, heartbreak, love 1172 likes Like “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman tags: food, gluttony, love 1170 likes Like “Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: heartbreak, integrity, love 1159 likes Like “Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.” ― Lady Gaga tags: brick, dead, house, humor, lady-gaga, love 1157 likes Like “I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil tags: affairs, breakup, life, love, women 1217 likes Like “Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild tags: love 1214 likes Like “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.” ― C.S. Lewis tags: god, inspirational, love 1179 likes Like “She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” ― J.D. Salinger tags: love 1177 likes Like “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” ― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within tags: abundance, balance, better, book, change, empowerment, expression, freedom, fulfillment, fun,greater, happiness, health, help, hope, improvement, joy, life, love, meditation, money, more, peace, perfect,power, relaxation, self, self-expression, self-help-book, self-improvement-book, self-realization, success,wealth, your 1171 likes Like “If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: classics, love, obsession 1155 likes Like “If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince tags: love 1145 likes Like “Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones tags: independence, interdependence, life, love 1145 likes Like “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Devilin Fey tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague,emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust,paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural,supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy 1136 likes Like “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride tags: buttercup, garden, heart, hidden-treasure, love, secret, the-princess-bride, walls, william-goldman 1134 likes Like “I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.” ― Aimee Carter, The Goddess Test tags: god-of-the-underworld, hades, henry, love, relationships 1131 likes Like “He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.” ― Demi Lovato tags: being-loved, life, love, true-love 1128 likes Like “Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina tags: love 1128 likes Like “I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.” ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday tags: life-lessons, love, poetry, share 1122 likes Like “In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-love-quotes, inspiring, lost, love, lovers, searching-and-finding 1120 likes Like “...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.” ― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief tags: love, pain, unrequited-love 1119 likes Like “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: divinity, love, poetry, rumi, spiritual, sufi 1116 likes Like “I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance." The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky. She loved me, sometimes I loved her. How could I not have loved her large, still eyes? I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her. To hear the immense night, more immense without her. And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass. What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her. The night is full of stars and she is not with me. That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away. My soul is lost without her. As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her. My heart searches for her and she is not with me. The same night that whitens the same trees. We, we who were, we are the same no longer. I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her. My voice searched the wind to touch her ear. Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once belonged to my kisses. Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes. I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her. Love is so short and oblivion so long. Because on nights like this I held her in my arms, my soul is lost without her. Although this may be the last pain she causes me, and this may be the last poem I write for her.” ― Pablo Neruda tags: love, sadness 1115 likes Like “Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass tags: clary-fray, faith, jace-wayland, love, strength 1115 likes Like “The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! tags: humor, love 1114 likes Like “Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear tags: love 1104 likes Like “If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa." "What?" he asked in mock astonishment. "Doesn't he know my heart belongs to you?" "It does not. And no, he's still worried about it, despite what I've told him." "You know, I bet if we started making out right now, it would make him feel better." "If you touch me," I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the opportunity to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how badass you really are.” ― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss tags: humor, love, threats 1103 likes Like “I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: eternal-questions, love, power 1098 likes Like “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.” ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando tags: love, poetry, women 1096 likes Like “I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: augustus-waters, hazel-grace, john-green, love, tfios 1092 likes Like “I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant tags: identity, love, loyalty, tris 1092 likes Like “Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.” ― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac tags: love, sad, sadness, sink, someday, sorrow 1091 likes Like “Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.” ― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys tags: behrendt, dating, greg, he-s-not-just-into-you, love, marriage, romance, truth 1090 likes Like “After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Witch Of Portobello tags: anxiety, happiness, love, torment 1087 likes Like “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی “I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamed--and this dream was the finest-- That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you.” ― Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War tags: inspirational, love, poetry 1210 likes Like “Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.” ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander tags: love, marriage, romance 1198 likes Like “Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.” ― Richard Siken tags: crying, love, regret 1175 likes Like “nothing in this world was more difficult than love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez tags: life, love, reality, relationships 1118 likes Like “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).” ― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life tags: cyberpunk, elven, elves, family, friends, friendship, human-behavior, human-nature, humanity,humankind, humans, inside-ourselves, insight, insightful, life, life-lessons, love, meaning, meaning-of-life, nq-mobile-omar-khan, omar-khan-nq-mobile, reflection, reflective, social-commentary, social-issues, social-science, society, truth, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series, ya-urban-fantasy, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adult-series 1107 likes Like “I love you more than I think I should.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo tags: love, nora, nora-grey, patch, patch-cipriano 1101 likes Like “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi tags: love 1095 likes Like “Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tags: goodbye, kiss, love 1094 likes Like “When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.” ― W.B. Yeats tags: age, loss, love 1091 likes Like “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” ― Shannon L. Alder tags: anger, battles, betrayal, consequences, divorce, fights, hurt, judgement, justice, letting-go, love, low-self-esteem, moving-on, pain, relationships, revenge, self-worth, seperation, vindication 1089 likes Like “All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: love, poetry 1084 likes Like “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.” ― Toni Morrison, Beloved tags: friendship, love 1081 likes Like “When you love someone you let them take care of you.” ― Jodi Picoult tags: love 1081 likes Like “Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” ― Jorge Luis Borges tags: love, time 1080 likes Like “If I love you, what business is it of yours?” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: business, love 1079 likes Like “Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.” ― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence tags: advice, affairs, dating, jewelry, life, love, men, relationships, romance, women 1077 likes Like “Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.” ― Colleen Houck tags: love, love-struck, romance 1076 likes Like “She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald tags: beautiful, beauty, love, soul, woman 1076 likes Like “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.” ― Woody Allen tags: love 1070 likes Like “One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.” ― Charlie Huston, Already Dead tags: love, romance 1069 likes Like “In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears” ― George Gordon Byron tags: love 1064 likes Like “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina tags: anna-karenina, love, tolstoy 1058 likes Like “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.” ― Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures tags: death, love, separation 1050 likes Like “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.” ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home tags: impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love 1042 likes Like “Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love tags: love, romance 1039 likes Like “He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog." "I'm only a kid!" I shrieked. "I can't get married!" "You could in New Hampshire." My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? "Forget it! No one's getting married!" I hissed. "Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you!” ― James Patterson, Max tags: angel, fang, humor, love, marriage, max, maxride, relationships 1035 likes Like “Why is love intensified by absence?” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tags: love, yearning 1031 likes Like “Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tags: love 1028 likes Like “Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there?” ― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You tags: call, dating, dating-advice, guys, love, marriage, romance, truth 1028 likes Like “We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private." "A smug expression crosses his face. "I don't buy it for a second, 'cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder." "A reminder of w-w-what?" "That you were mine.” ― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction “Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.” ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone tags: akiva, karou, love, romance 1131 likes Like “There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then." She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass tags: clary-fray, forbidden-love, i-love-you, jace-wayland, love, true-love 1109 likes Like “If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable.” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: bravery, courage, fearless, fight-for-love, human, inspirational, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes,inspiring, love, passion, passionate-life, passionate-love, strength, unbreakable, unbreakable-spirit 1100 likes Like “You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium tags: courage, love, resistance, strength 1048 likes Like “Because I can't help doing it," he said with a shrug. "And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too. Hell, I'm pretty sure you're already half in love with me." "I am not! And everything you just said is ridiculous. That's terrible logic." Adrian returned to his crossword puzzle. "Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember-no matter how ordinary things seem between us-I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will." "I don't think you're evil." "See? Things are already looking promising.” ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell tags: adrian-ivashkov, angst, friendship, humor, love, relationships, richelle-mead 1045 likes Like “Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet tags: love, poetry 1044 likes Like “تحبین الأطفال ؟.. برافو .. لكنھم طبعًا ھؤلاء الأطفال الذين يظھرون على علب الألبان الصناعیة .. لو استطعت أن تحبي طفلاً قذرًا فقیرًا مبلل الثیاب يتزاحم الذباب والمخاط حول وجھه فأنا أقر لك بأنك أنثى كاملة..” ― أحمد خالد توفيق tags: children, love, women 1041 likes Like “And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day and type up your letters and carry your boxes and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don't listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and take pictures of you when you're sleeping and get up to fetch you coffee and bagels and Danish and go to Florent and drink coffee at midnight and have you steal my cigarettes and never be able to find a match and tell you about the tv programme I saw the night before and take you to the eye hospital and not laugh at your jokes and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much I love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your breasts your arse your and sit on the steps smoking till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps smoking till you come home and worry when you're late and be amazed when you're early and give you sunflowers and go to your party and dance till I'm black and be sorry when I'm wrong and happy when you forgive me and look at your photos and wish I'd known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin and get scared when you're angry and your eye has gone red and the other eye blue and your hair to the left and your face oriental and tell you you're gorgeous and hug you when you're anxious and hold you when you hurt and want you when I smell you and offend you when I touch you and whimper when I'm next to you and whimper when I'm not and dribble on your breast and smother you in the night and get cold when you take the blanket and hot when you don't and melt when you smile and dissolve when you laugh and not understand why you think I'm rejecting you when I'm not rejecting you and wonder how you could think I'd ever reject you and wonder who you are but accept you anyway and tell you about the tree angel enchanted forest boy who flew across the ocean because he loved you and write poems for you and wonder why you don't believe me and have a feeling so deep I can't find words for it and want to buy you a kitten I'd get jealous of because it would get more attention than me and keep you in bed when you have to go and cry like a baby when you finally do and get rid of the roaches and buy you presents you don't want and take them away again and ask you to marry me and you say no again but keep on asking because though you think I don't mean it I do always have from the first time I asked you and wander the city thinking it's empty without you and want what you want and think I'm losing myself but know I'm safe with you and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me because you don't deserve any less and answer your questions when I'd rather not and tell you the truth when I really don't want to and try to be honest because I know you prefer it and think it's all over but hang on in for just ten more minutes before you throw me out of your life and forget who I am and try to get closer to you because it's beautiful learning to know you and well worth the effort and speak German to you badly and Hebrew to you worse and make love with you at three in the morning and somehow somehow somehow communicate some of the overwhelming undying overpowering unconditional all-encompassing heart-enriching mind-expanding on-going never-ending love I have for you.” ― Sarah Kane, Crave tags: love 1038 likes Like “The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last” ― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar tags: first-love, love 1033 likes Like “How far should a person go in the name of true love?” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice tags: devotion, love, self-sacrifice, true-love 1029 likes Like “They do not love that do not show their love.” ― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona tags: love 1023 likes Like “No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.” ― Kahlil Gibran tags: friendship, love 1019 likes Like “In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: devotion, love 1019 likes Like “The love that moves the sun and the other stars.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert tags: inspirational, love 1017 likes Like “One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: emotions, heart, insanity, love, rationality, reason 1013 likes Like “I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse tags: devotion, love, promise 1010 likes Like “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being tags: love, philosophy 1005 likes Like “After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.” ― Mark Twain, Diaries of Adam & Eve tags: love, marriage, women 1000 likes Like “Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.” ― Sara Teasdale, The Collected Poems tags: kiss, love, memories, poetry 1000 likes Like “Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land tags: jealousy, love 999 likes Like “since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis” ― E.E. Cummings tags: feeling, kiss, love 997 likes Like “It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?" I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still. "Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: love, romance 993 likes Like “I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?” ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden tags: heartbreak, hope, lochan, love, maya 991 likes Like “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” ― Hermann Hesse tags: love 986 likes Like “Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding tags: hope, love, personal-growth, romance 984 likes Like “I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. ” ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi tags: goodbye, heart, love, pain 971 likes Like “Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.” ― Drew Barrymore tags: courtship, kissing, love, romance 968 likes Like “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” ― Dylan Thomas tags: death, lost-love, love, mourning 963 likes Like “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 962 likes Like “I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.” ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry “Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies")” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. tags: creation, destruction, enemies, hate, love, redemption 1124 likes Like “I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: love, obsession 1032 likes Like “You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.” ― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist tags: affection, beatles, hands, love 1015 likes Like “Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins” ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie tags: life, love 998 likes Like “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility tags: love 988 likes Like “And all I loved, I loved alone.” ― Edgar Allan Poe tags: love 984 likes Like “I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.” ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact tags: love, self-sacrifice 981 likes Like “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” ― Mother Teresa tags: agape, love, metaphor, paraphrased 964 likes Like “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys tags: deep-thoughts, humans, love, maggie-stiefvater, nature, the-raven-boys, trees 963 likes Like “Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer tags: breaking-up, love, moving-on, relationships 957 likes Like “Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.” ― William Paul Young, The Shack tags: love 954 likes Like “Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.” ― Marissa Meyer, Cress tags: fate, love, we-make-our-own-paths 953 likes Like “I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." I've been complimented on my appearance before. But never in his tone of voice. Of all the things he's said, I don't know why this catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.” ― Marie Lu, Legend tags: flirting, humor, love 949 likes Like “Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.” “That sounds more like a poison than a person,” was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. “Exactly,” Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.” ― Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study tags: love, poison 949 likes Like “But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush tags: becca-fitzpatrick, fallen-angels, hush-hush, love, nora-grey, patch-cipriano 948 likes Like “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” ― Louisa May Alcott tags: beauty, happiness, inspirational, love 947 likes Like “I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” ― Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally tags: crazy, declarations-of-love, foibles, future, harry-burns, in-love, life, love, marriage-proposal, new-year-s-eve, romance, sally-albright, simple-life, simple-pleasures, true-love, when-harry-met-sally 945 likes Like “Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.” ― Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses tags: die, love 940 likes Like “Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue tags: amity, love, true-love 938 likes Like “Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge,laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom 936 likes Like “Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love, separation, sunset 934 likes Like “Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.” ― Marie Lu, Legend tags: brother, inpirational, legend, love, marie-lu, sad 930 likes Like “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles tags: love 928 likes Like “Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent tags: beatrice-prior, cute, divergent, four, love, tris-prior, veronica-roth 917 likes Like “Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo tags: heartbreak, hurt, love, nora, nora-grey, patch 916 likes Like “to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones tags: destruction, love 913 likes Like “Love is a serious mental disease.” ― Plato, Phaedrus tags: love 912 likes Like “My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind tags: love 910 likes Like “If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” ― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life tags: longing, love, sad, searching, unrequited-love 907 likes Like “Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart “I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood tags: happiness, love 1029 likes Like “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky tags: love 985 likes Like “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” ― Karl Lagerfeld tags: altruism, care, caring, designer, ego, happiness, life, love, nobody, self-love, self-sacrifice, selfish,wisdom 971 likes Like “Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: action, blessings, carpe-diem, dance, enthusiasm, express, inspiration, live, love, motivation, music,share, sing, talk, truth, walk 949 likes Like “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” ― Willa Cather tags: love 946 likes Like “aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana; dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada” ― Sapardi Djoko Damono tags: love 937 likes Like “There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.” ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic tags: lavender, love, magic, rosemary, salt, superstition 916 likes Like “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.” ― Thomas Merton, Love and Living tags: connection, destiny, fate, life, love, meaning 911 likes Like “There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire tags: love, memories, sacrifice, time 911 likes Like “I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.” ― Sarah Kay tags: best, choice, love, worst, you 906 likes Like “How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath tags: love, yearning 900 likes Like “I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.” ― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof tags: baby-proof, claudia, emily-giffin, love 900 likes Like “She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven tags: falling-in-love, love, nicholas-sparks, safe-haven, unexpected-love 894 likes Like “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement” ― Jess C. Scott tags: beauty, body, body-image, culture, dance, dancer, desire, fashion, fitness, food, food-for-thought,friendship, funny, girl, health, healthy, hip-hop, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love,lust-for-life, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, self, sex, truth, wisdom, young, young-adult, young-adult-fiction, young-adult-literature, young-adult-novels, young-adults, youth 894 likes Like “The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again” ― Jimi Hendrix tags: eye, goodbye, hello, life, love, song-lyrics 891 likes Like “I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me." I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love, romance 890 likes Like “One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.” ― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry tags: fidelity, love 887 likes Like “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ― G.K. Chesterton tags: faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love 886 likes Like “Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way” ― Pablo Neruda, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor tags: eyes, heart, love, name 877 likes Like “Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one” ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed tags: love 875 likes Like “I don't love you anymore", she whispered. "I don't love you at all." His throat closed. "It's all right, sweetheart. I love you enough for both of us.” ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel tags: love 873 likes Like “I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves tags: blue, feelings, gansey, kiss, love 872 likes Like “When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild tags: forgiveness, love 871 likes Like “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 871 likes Like “Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.” ― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight tags: love 870 likes Like “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass tags: breakups, dating, heartbreak, holding-out-for-the-best, letting-go, love, moving-on, not-settling,positive-thinking, relationships, settling, the-single-woman 861 likes Like “Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.” ― Charles M. Schulz tags: faith, friendship, loneliness, love 855 likes Like “And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium tags: love 851 likes Like “They're in love. Fuck the war.” ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow tags: love, war 846 likes Like “My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.” ― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire “I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.” ― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet tags: betrayal, choice, emotions, friendship, love, scarlet, wolf 1106 likes Like “True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.” ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride tags: cough-drops, love, true-love 1006 likes Like “You are my heart, my life, my entire existence." -Ash” ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen tags: ash, iron-fey-trilogy, julie-kagawa, love 996 likes Like “Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tags: love, women, worship 973 likes Like “America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five tags: america, disgrace, inequality, love, poor 968 likes Like “You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about. Day and night.” ― J.R. Ward, Lover Mine tags: life, loss, love, shit-happens, suck-it-up 911 likes Like “Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night tags: love 902 likes Like “You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.” ― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You tags: break-ups, endings, forgetting-the-past, love, past, relationships 901 likes Like “You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.” ― Colleen Hoover, November 9 tags: love, self-discovery 894 likes Like “As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.” ― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island tags: daughters, family, love, mothers 886 likes Like “People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” ― Andy Warhol tags: love 885 likes Like “Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked ” ― Laurell K. Hamilton tags: laurell-k-hamilton, love, romance, the-harlequin, true-love, wicked 883 likes Like “I ask the impossible: love me forever. Love me when all desire is gone. Love me with the single mindedness of a monk. When the world in its entirety, and all that you hold sacred advise you against it: love me still more. When rage fills you and has no name: love me. When each step from your door to our job tires you-- love me; and from job to home again, love me, love me. Love me when you're bored-- when every woman you see is more beautiful than the last, or more pathetic, love me as you always have: not as admirer or judge, but with the compassion you save for yourself in your solitude. Love me as you relish your loneliness, the anticipation of your death, mysteries of the flesh, as it tears and mends. Love me as your most treasured childhood memory-- and if there is none to recall-- imagine one, place me there with you. Love me withered as you loved me new. Love me as if I were forever-- and I, will make the impossible a simple act, by loving you, loving you as I do” ― Ana Castillo, I Ask the Impossible tags: love 875 likes Like “You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” ― Kiera Cass, The Elite tags: america, change, goodbye, love, maxon, relationship, sad, the-elite, the-selection 874 likes Like “But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant tags: grief, love, pain, sadness 867 likes Like “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet tags: love, moon, romeo-nad-juliet 866 likes Like “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...” ― E.E. Cummings tags: love 847 likes Like “Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent tags: cute, divergent, four, love, tobias, tris-prior, veronica-roth 843 likes Like “How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice tags: hope, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks, the-choice 840 likes Like “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion,connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames 839 likes Like “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.” ― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before tags: be-brave, embrace-change, love, take-the-risk 829 likes Like “The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.” ― Karl Lagerfeld tags: children, emotion, feelings, kids, love, mom, mother 827 likes Like “Choose your love. Love your choice.” ― Thomas S. Monson tags: choices, love 824 likes Like “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)” ― Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV tags: ecclesiastes, life, love, romance, scripture, youth 823 likes Like “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 823 likes Like “The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.” ― Johnny Depp tags: babies, dogs, love 820 likes Like “And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.” ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury tags: a-court-of-mist-and-fury, acomaf, feyre, love, mate, rhysand 808 likes Like “My soul sees its equal in you.” ― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn tags: khalid, love, shahrzard 800 likes Like “As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence tags: love, men, women 800 likes Like “Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!” ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo “It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me tags: fangirling, juliette-miller, kiss, light, love, stars, warner 1249 likes Like “There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.” ― William S. Burroughs tags: love, risk 941 likes Like “There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.” ― Stefan Molyneux tags: freedomain-radio, love, stefan-molyneux, truth 876 likes Like “some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.” ― Charles Bukowski, War All the Time tags: bukowski, love, moments, nice, poetry, war-all-the-time, writing 864 likes Like “And I've fallen. So hard. I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen. And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching. Love is a heartless bastard.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me tags: love, warner 849 likes Like “I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince tags: feelings, heart, love 838 likes Like “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign tags: affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development,disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go,letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control,self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality,vanish 834 likes Like “There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion tags: feelings, hearts, love, waiting 828 likes Like “You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle” ― David Nicholls, One Day tags: gifts, love, self-confidence 822 likes Like “It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: feelings, flattery, love, secret-love, sense, unavowed-love, vulnerability, women 801 likes Like “The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson tags: love, meaning, motivation, neil-degrasse, science, successful-people 800 likes Like “For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke tags: love 796 likes Like “Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?” ― Richard Rodgers, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella tags: adoration, beauty, love 794 likes Like “In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me. He looked up at me through his dark fringe of lashes and smiled. The expression on his face melted me completely. I knew I had the goofiest grin plastered on my lips, and didn’t care. “There,” he said as he finished tying the laces on my left shoe. “Now you won’t fall.” Too late.” ― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer tags: adorable, couples, love, mara-dyer, noah-shaw, ya 788 likes Like “Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116)” ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets tags: constancy, love, poetry, sacrifice 787 likes Like “The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated tags: love 786 likes Like “When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. You want—" He broke off then, as if realizing everyone was looking at him again. "You want what?" said Dru with enormous eyes. "Nothing," Julian said. "I'm just talking.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight tags: drusilla-blackthorn, julian-blackthorn, love 785 likes Like “I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?” ― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely tags: body, cool, desire, erotic, erotica, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, incest, love, lust, passion,relationships, romance, sex, sexuality, sister, taboo, truth, wisdom 784 likes Like “Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving.” ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin tags: fellatio, hate, hatred, love, oral-sex, penis-sucking 784 likes Like “The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my singleness: It’s not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say – they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation – yes, honey, okay, honey – is the same as concord. He’s doing what you tell him to do because he doesn’t care enough to argue, I think. Your petty demands simply make him feel superior, or resentful, and someday he will fuck his pretty, young coworker who asks nothing of him, and you will actually be shocked. Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.) And yet: Don’t land me in one of those relationships where we’re always pecking at each other, disguising insults as jokes, rolling our eyes and ‘playfully’ scrapping in front of our friends, hoping to lure them to our side of an argument they could not care less about. Those awful if only relationships: This marriage would be great if only… and you sense the if only list is a lot longer than either of them realizes. So I know I am right not to settle, but it doesn’t make me feel better as my friends pair off and I stay home on Friday night with a bottle of wine and make myself an extravagant meal and tell myself, This is perfect, as if I’m the one dating me. As I go to endless rounds of parties and bar nights, perfumed and sprayed and hopeful, rotating myself around the room like some dubious dessert. I go on dates with men who are nice and good-looking and smart – perfect-on-paper men who make me feel like I’m in a foreign land, trying to explain myself, trying to make myself known. Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase? So you suffer through the night with the perfect-on-paper man – the stutter of jokes misunderstood, the witty remarks lobbed and missed. Or maybe he understands that you’ve made a witty remark but, unsure of what to do with it, he holds it in his hand like some bit of conversational phlegm he will wipe away later. You spend another hour trying to find each other, to recognise each other, and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tags: love 780 likes Like “Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since – on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to displace with your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations tags: love 779 likes Like “Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.” ― Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf tags: correspondence, love, writers 779 likes Like “When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.” ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker tags: love, magic 779 likes Like “Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [...] "I get that you're angry—," said Patch. "I am ripped apart!" I shouted.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush tags: angel, angry, becca-fitzpatrick, hush, love, nora-grey, patch 775 likes Like “You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.” ― Colleen Houck tags: love, romance 775 likes Like “But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.” ― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road tags: family, grief, jellicoe-road, love, melina-marchetta 769 likes Like “She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince tags: flowers, love, roses 769 likes Like “I want everything with you, America. I want the holidays and the birthdays, the busy season and lazy weekends. I want peanut butter fingertips on my desk. I want inside jokes and fights and everything. I want a life with you.” ― Kiera Cass, The One tags: america-singer, love, maxon-schreave 766 likes Like “Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality” ― Susan Polis Schutz tags: love 760 likes Like “Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away” ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City “She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess tags: desire, fire, love, tessa-gray, will-herondale 951 likes Like “I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.” ― David Levithan, Every Day tags: love 944 likes Like “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: be-yourself, change, choices, compassion, greatest-version, happiness, helping, love, relationships,success 864 likes Like “Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…” Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death. To say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”. I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.” ― Coco J. Ginger tags: breakup, breakups, friendship, i-love-him, i-love-you, jamie-weise, love, love-affair, love-and-romance,love-story, lovers, passion, passions, unconditional 859 likes Like “Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.” ― Zayn Malik tags: cute, inspirational, life, love, one-direction, sacrifice 855 likes Like “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities tags: dreams, finality, love, soul 849 likes Like “Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” ― W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds tags: dreams, love, money 846 likes Like “Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...” ― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian tags: love 826 likes Like “Don't go far off, not even for a day, because I don't know how to say it - a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep. Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart. Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach, may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't LEAVE me for a second, my dearest, because in that moment you'll have gone so far I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking, will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?” ― Pablo Neruda tags: love, poetry, spanish 818 likes Like “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent tags: inspirational, love 804 likes Like “This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.” ― Lorrie Moore, Like Life tags: love, relationships, sarcasm 801 likes Like “Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments tags: love, romance, women 799 likes Like “Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby tags: being-loved, faith, love, meaningful, regret 797 likes Like “It's all right," said Wolf. "You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet's identity and give it to Levana's army. Scarlet stiffened, heat rushing into her cheeks. He certainly wasn't insinuating . . . "Aaaaw," squealed Iko. "Did Wolf just say that he loves Scarlet? That's so cute!" Scarlet cringed. "He did not--that wasn't--" She balled her fists against her sides. "Can we get back to these soldiers that are being rounded up, please?" "Is she blushing? She sounds like she's blushing." "She's blushing," Thorne confirmed, shuffling the cards. "Actually, Wolf is also looking a little flustered--” ― Marissa Meyer, Cress tags: iko, love, lunar-chronicles, scarlet, thorne, wolf 777 likes Like “you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry” ― Taylor Swift tags: couples, heartbreak, love, missing-you, sad, song-lyrics 777 likes Like “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tags: love 774 likes Like “I will follow you to the ends of the world.” ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns tags: love 770 likes Like “It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.” ― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape tags: loss, love, pain 766 likes Like “I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.” ― Demi Lovato tags: catch-me, demi-lovato, love, sad, sing 765 likes Like “Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen tags: forgiveness, love 761 likes Like “If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was” ― Albert Schweitzer tags: love 757 likes Like “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ― Ingrid Bergman tags: kiss, love, nature, trick, words 757 likes Like “He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage tags: love, misery, obsession, romance 757 likes Like “When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart” ― Elizabeth Chandler, Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates tags: love 753 likes Like “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.” ― Virginia Woolf tags: death-and-dying, depression, love, marriage, suicide-note 752 likes Like “Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish." "God, you're the best," I told him. "I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: love, travel, wish 745 likes Like “I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...” ― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass tags: love, physics 736 likes Like “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 736 likes Like “It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.” ― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary tags: life, love, memories 732 likes Like “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” ― Marvin J. Ashton “Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?” ― Ally Condie, First Day tags: allyson-braithwaite-condie, box, breakup, church, day, first, humor, lockup, love, memories, novel, pain,religion, romance 925 likes Like “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.” ― John Keats tags: imagination, love, truth 856 likes Like “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.” ― John Keats tags: love, martyrdom, self-sacrifice 844 likes Like “Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.” ― John Lennon tags: beatles, love, sun, universe 806 likes Like “I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald tags: love 788 likes Like “I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.” ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses tags: feyre, love, tamlin, thorns 780 likes Like “What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower tags: love, romance 766 likes Like “Who knows how to make love stay? 1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay. 2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay. 3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.” ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker tags: humor, love 764 likes Like “If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.” ― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland tags: break-ups, dreamland, letting-go, love, sarah-dessen 754 likes Like “She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.” ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone tags: love 750 likes Like “The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” ― William Faulkner tags: heartbreak, love, soldier-s-pay 740 likes Like “And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream tags: love 730 likes Like “Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls tags: city-of-lost-souls, isabelle-lightwood, love, magnus-bane 730 likes Like “Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.” ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry tags: angel-poems, classic-books, classic-quotes, creative-vision, famous-quotes, gold, grace, haiku, haikus,inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring-authors, inspiring-words, joy, love, national-poetry-month,personal-growth, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, positive-motivation, psychotherapy, rainbow, rainbows,self-esteem, self-love, self-motivation, self-respect, spirituality 729 likes Like “With you, intimacy colours my voice. even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.” ― Warsan Shire tags: love 726 likes Like “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.” ― Augustine of Hippo tags: adventure, confessions, love, romance 722 likes Like “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.” ― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale tags: discovery, discovery-of-oneself, love, love-quotes, self-discovery, war 722 likes Like “As your lover describes you, so you are.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry tags: love, self-fulfilling-prophecy 722 likes Like “I love you enough to never make you choose.” ― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits tags: echo-and-noah, family, katie-mcgarry, love, pushing-the-limits 721 likes Like “Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram tags: love 720 likes Like “Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys tags: humor, lies, love 720 likes Like “Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?” ― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss tags: love, vampire-academy 718 likes Like “So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]” ― Taylor Swift tags: love, lyrics, music 713 likes Like “He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.” ― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World tags: choice, love 713 likes Like “Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh. And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time. There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale tags: love 713 likes Like “At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.” ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden tags: endurance, forbidden, love, separation 712 likes Like “Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, and they parted with leaves in their hair. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love “Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises tags: love 709 likes Like “But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together." I'm not glad," says Peeta. "I wish we had waited until the whole thing was done officially." This takes even Caesar aback. "Surely even a brief time is better than no time?" Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Peeta bitterly, "If it weren't for the baby.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire “To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.” ― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” ― Judy Garland tags: love 1119 likes Like “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” ― Anatole France tags: animals, love, pets 797 likes Like “When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.” ― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems tags: fantasy, love, monster 792 likes Like “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 792 likes Like “Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me. I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic. The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it. It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't. I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me. Always, Your Peter P.S. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug.” ― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily tags: beautiful, growing-up, letters, love, peter-pan, remembering, tiger-lily 784 likes Like “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” ― Bill Wilson tags: devotion, inspirational, love 770 likes Like “Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.” ― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin tags: love, pain, reality 768 likes Like “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” ― William Wilberforce tags: abolition, accomplish, christian, great-britain, heard, hope, inspirational, love, peace, slavery, truth, try 767 likes Like “This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.” ― Susan Polis Schutz tags: forest, happiness, honesty, inspirational, life, love, nature, power 752 likes Like “You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.” ― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys tags: busy, call, dating, dating-advice, faith, guys, love, romance 751 likes Like “Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” ― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance tags: faith, love, trust 749 likes Like “I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.” ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still tags: friendship, hurt, love, suicide, suicide-note 748 likes Like “In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tags: love 735 likes Like “Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: fate, inspirational, life, love 730 likes Like “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 729 likes Like “That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: inspirational, love, spiritual 724 likes Like “When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes tags: cassandra-clare, clary-fray, love, mortal-instruments 714 likes Like “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 tags: love, poetry, space, trust 712 likes Like “Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts.” ― Tennessee Williams tags: blindness, ego, fear, heart, life, love, vanity 697 likes Like “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, love 696 likes Like “We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tags: life, love 691 likes Like “Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath tags: love, writing 688 likes Like “Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women tags: amy-march, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, spoil, teddy-lawrence, unrequited-love, waste-of-life 687 likes Like “You were you, and I was I; we were two before our time. I was yours before I knew, and you have always been mine too.” ― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure tags: love 684 likes Like “Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King tags: adam-parrish, love, ronan-lynch, smile 683 likes Like “How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn't have any substance after all? Like when you've split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. "Plenty more fish in the sea," they'll say, or "You're better off without them," or "Do you want some of these potato chips?" They never really understand, because they haven't been there, every day, every hour. They don't know the way things have been, the way that it's made you, the way it has structured your world. They'll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don't understand the history, the background, don't know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don't know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.” ― Michael Marshall Smith, Only Forward tags: life, love, only-forward, reality 678 likes Like “Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass tags: adoration, beauty, love, well-said 677 likes Like “Missing someone, they say, is self-centered. I self-center you more than ever.” ― Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone tags: fun-with-language, love, missing 671 likes Like “The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.” ― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift tags: love 668 likes Like “I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don't want to look around any more: I don't need to look around for anything.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath “First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.” ― Maya Angelou tags: falling-in-love, love, lovelessness 829 likes Like “If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.” ― Emmet Fox tags: love 765 likes Like “I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.” ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell tags: love, sentimentality, weep, weeping 754 likes Like “Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.” ― Toni Morrison, Jazz tags: love 732 likes Like “Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger” ― Sara Evans tags: breaking-up, couples, letting-go, love, relationship, sad 732 likes Like “I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone tags: love, mal 706 likes Like “When people fall in love, they burst into flames.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun tags: love 704 likes Like “One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.” ― Oscar Wilde tags: humor, love, marriage 695 likes Like “I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.” ― Ernest Hemingway tags: ernest-hemingway, kiss, love, trouble 694 likes Like “I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.” ― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith tags: love, romance 683 likes Like “I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.' I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name” ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name tags: love, memory 669 likes Like “Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins tags: evil, fair-play, love 668 likes Like “Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her.” ― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin tags: daemon-black, daemon-black-pov, katy-and-daemon, katy-swartz, love 662 likes Like “How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe tags: love 660 likes Like “A heart filled with anger has no room for love.” ― Joan Lunden, Wake-Up Calls tags: anger, forgiveness, love 659 likes Like “Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage tags: desire, longing, love 657 likes Like “Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy, cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is irrevocably changed.” ― J.M. Darhower, Sempre tags: friendship, love, love-at-first-sight 657 likes Like “So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here” ― Deborah Cox tags: couples, heartbreak, helpless-love, letting-go, love, missing-you, romance 656 likes Like “There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight tags: freedom, lady-midnight, life, love, mark-blackthorn 655 likes Like “Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.” ― Lauren Conrad tags: celebrities, love, true-love 653 likes Like “I love you" I say. "I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant tags: four, love, tris 651 likes Like “He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries tags: life, love, relationships 649 likes Like “Love wins, love always wins.” ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie tags: love 642 likes Like “If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.” ― Ernest Hemingway tags: love 641 likes Like “There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.” ― Gayle Forman, Where She Went tags: love, relationships, thoughts 639 likes Like “…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.” ― Homer, The Iliad tags: classics, greece, longing, love, lovers 635 likes Like “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream tags: comprehension, devils, earth, egypt, fantasy, helen, imagination, love, lover, lunatic, madmen, poet,poetry, reason, words 635 likes Like “V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.” ― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel tags: body, books, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour,imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex,technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth 633 likes Like “You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore.” ― Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree tags: alix, heartbreak, love 630 likes Like “You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.” ― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy “Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.” ― P.C. Cast tags: house-of-night, love 1010 likes Like “I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” ― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair tags: love, poetry 841 likes Like “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 785 likes Like “His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me tags: ahhhh, god, ignite, ignite-me, juliette, love, oh, ohgod, sexy, warner 773 likes Like “Would he find her? Without question. Would he save her? Always.” ― Lauren Kate, Torment tags: love 717 likes Like “When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms tags: love, self-sacrifice 697 likes Like “Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.” ― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog tags: animals, dogs, love, pets 693 likes Like “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray tags: love, man, woman 660 likes Like “I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop.” ― Kristin Cashore, Graceling tags: love 656 likes Like “It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.” ― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming tags: books, garbage, heathcliff, jay-gatsby, love, men, movies, mr-darcy, prince-charming, rochester,romantic, romeo, time, waste 646 likes Like “You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.” ― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tags: life, love, religion 639 likes Like “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.” ― Madonna tags: bravery, love 635 likes Like “I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.” ― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never tags: andrew-parrish, love 632 likes Like “Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.” ― Marian Keyes, Watermelon tags: funny, humour, love, relationships, women 632 likes Like “She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.” ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice tags: belikov, dimitri, hathaway, love, rose 630 likes Like “Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor tags: death, life, love, relationships 629 likes Like “Each time you happen to me all over again.” ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence tags: awe, love 629 likes Like “And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.” ― Adolf Hitler tags: fight, love, respect 627 likes Like “It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.” ― David Levithan tags: destiny, love 626 likes Like “I don't like it when I outweigh my men.” ― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called tags: humor, love, women 620 likes Like “Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart tags: being-human, happiness, human, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspiration, inspirational,inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning,life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, living, love, optimism, optimistic, positive,positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking 620 likes Like “One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.” ― Osho tags: advaita, consciouness, enlightenment, evolution, guru, healing, love, meditation, realization, satsang,spirituality, teacher 619 likes Like “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 tags: heartbreak, longing, love, pain, sorrow, unrequited-love 616 likes Like “I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being tags: love 614 likes Like “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 tags: love, marriage, romance, vows 614 likes Like “I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri” ― Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound tags: devotion, dimitri, love, rosemarie, spirit-bound 613 likes Like “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 tags: inspirational, love, optimism, possibilities 609 likes Like “The fact is…I’m in love with you, and I have been for some time.” ― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse tags: love, romance 606 likes Like “He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes. "I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too.” ― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss “It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart “To love is to recognize yourself in another.” ― Eckhart Tolle tags: love 817 likes Like “Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: love 794 likes Like “recant, v. I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones. I want to take back the book of artsy photos I gave you, because you didn’t get it and said it was hipster trash. I want to take back what I said about you being an emotional zombie. I want to take back the time I called you “honey” in front of your sister and you looked like I had just shown her pictures of us having sex. I want to take back the wineglass I broke when I was mad, because it was a nice wineglass and the argument would have ended anyway. I want to take back the time we had sex in a rent-a-car, not because I feel bad about the people who got in the car after us, but because it was massively uncomfortable. I want to take back the trust I had while you were away in Austin. I want to take back the time I said you were a genius, because I was being sarcastic and I should have just said you’d hurt my feelings. I want to take back the secrets I told you so I can decide now whether to tell them to you again. I want to take back the piece of me that lies in you, to see if I truly miss it. I want to take back at least half the “I love you”s, because it feels safer that way.” ― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary tags: heartache, love 761 likes Like “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.” ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing tags: bachelorhood, courtship, empowerment, freedom, happiness, husbands, independence, love, marriage,self-determination, singles, wooing 750 likes Like “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.” ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese tags: love, poems, poetry, sonnet, sonnet-xlii 740 likes Like “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,” ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations tags: attention, compassion, happiness, happy-life, inspirational, kindness, life, love, meaning-of-life,meditation, money, oneness, peace, perspective, philosophy, positive-attitude, positive-living, purpose,purpose-in-life, purpose-of-life, purposeful-living, respect, revelation, self-awareness, self-discovery, spirit,spirituality, wisdom 725 likes Like “You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.” ― David Nicholls, One Day tags: life, love 720 likes Like “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 710 likes Like “I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.” ― Niall Horan tags: love, niall-horan, one-direction 698 likes Like “Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.” ― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe tags: love 673 likes Like “That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.” ― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You tags: dependability, love, lovers, relationships 671 likes Like “A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass tags: being-single, dating, goals, hard-to-get, holding-out-for-the-best, love, loving-yourself, not-settling,playing-hard-to-get, positive-thinking, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, standards,the-single-woman, validation 652 likes Like “You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince tags: friendship, laughter, love 652 likes Like “How do you know when it's over?" "Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.” ― Gunnar Ardelius, I Need You More Than I Love You and I Love You to Bits tags: falling-out-of-love, i-love-you, i-need-you, love, maybe, memories, move-on, over, when, when-it-s-over 650 likes Like “No, it's not that. It's not what you're thinking. I was serious when I said 'all of it'. I can remember every moment we were together, and in eachof them there was something wonderful. I can't really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another? Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook tags: love, wonderful 636 likes Like “Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums tags: god, inspirational, love, spiritual 624 likes Like “And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.” ― Lauren Oliver, Requiem tags: love 624 likes Like “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” ― Steve Hall tags: commitment, love, respect 623 likes Like “Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice tags: affection, duty, feelings, integrity, joy, love, marriage, matrimony, romance, self-determination 623 likes Like “Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island tags: love 616 likes Like “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: desire, love 615 likes Like “I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife tags: love, melancholy 613 likes Like “Nothing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love—it is kind and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and unconditional. Pure. If you are her man, she will walk on water and through a mountain for you, too, no matter how you’ve acted out, no matter what crazy thing you’ve done, no matter the time or demand. If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’re up. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I mean really loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty, encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’s not so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, even when you’re not saying anything worth listening to. And no matter what you do, no matter how many times her friends say you’re no good, no matter how many times you slam the door on the relationship, she will give you her very best and then some, and keep right on trying to win over your heart, even when you act like everything she’s done to convince you she’s The One just isn’t good enough. That’s a woman’s love—it stands the test of time, logic, and all circumstance. ... Well, I’m here to tell you that expecting that kind of love— that perfection—from a man is unrealistic. That’s right, I said it—it’s not gonna happen, no way, no how. Because a man’s love isn’t like a woman’s love.” ― Steve Harvey tags: love, men, women 610 likes Like “Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude tags: heart, love 600 likes Like “Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything tags: love 599 likes Like “I love you more than I hate everything else.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Landline tags: love, marriage 599 likes Like “There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt tags: change, heartbreak, love, moment, narrative 598 likes Like “Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” ― Bruce Lee “Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.” ― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time “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 “If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert tags: love 936 likes Like “I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me. ” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding tags: love, sharing-love, telling-love 851 likes Like “I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.” ― Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight tags: kleypas, love, soulmate 704 likes Like “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan tags: dreams, love 671 likes Like “If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” ― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small tags: animals, gratitude, love, loyalty, soul 653 likes Like “May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: betrayal, death, hate, love, malediction, obsession, thwarted 651 likes Like “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.” ― Oscar Wilde tags: life, love, wealth-of-soul 642 likes Like “Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo tags: hurt, love, nora, patch 632 likes Like “But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels tags: city-of-fallen-angels, clary-fray, lost, love 629 likes Like “So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.” ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes tags: adoration, love, possessiveness 623 likes Like “Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.” ― Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal tags: apart, demon-cynster, longing, love, romance 613 likes Like “Work without love is slavery.” ― Mother Teresa tags: faith, love, work 612 likes Like “‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities tags: love, passion 611 likes Like “Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.” ― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary tags: love, men, relationships 611 likes Like “If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil tags: love, men, women 610 likes Like “anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more when by now and tree by leaf she laughed his joy she cried his grief bird by snow and stir by still anyone's any was all to her someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then)they said their nevers they slept their dream stars rain sun moon (and only the snow can begin to explain how children are apt to forget to remember with up so floating many bells down) one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes. Women and men (both dong and ding) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain” ― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems tags: love 609 likes Like “I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.” ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses tags: feyre, fire, love, passion, tamlin 606 likes Like “Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! tags: decency, humor, love, respect 606 likes Like “She's my kitten, and no one else's.” ― Jeaniene Frost, One Foot in the Grave tags: love, vampire 603 likes Like “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 tags: death, hate, love, poetry, shakespeare 589 likes Like “He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.” ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars tags: love, romance 588 likes Like “Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.” ― Charlie Chaplin tags: chaplin, charlie-chaplin, love, naked, soul, vip 587 likes Like “Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil” ― Eminem tags: love 585 likes Like “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. tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, life, living, love,meaning-of-life, passion 583 likes Like “If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons tags: humor, love, violence 581 likes Like “Wait a second," Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but the smile doesn't spread to his eyes, which look less tense and worried. "You belong here, you know that?" he says. "You belong with us. It'll be over soon, so just hold on, okay?" He scratches behind his ear and looks away, like he's embarrassed by what he said. I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe. I stare up at him, and he stares down at me. For a long moment, we stay that way. Then I pull my hand away and run after Uriah and Lynn and Marlene. Maybe now he thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent tags: happiness, love, truth 579 likes Like “But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida tags: love, sacrifice, soulmate 577 likes Like “Marry me, Kiara,” he blurts out in front of everyone. “Why?” she asks, challenging him. “Because I love you,” he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, “and I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein’ your face every mornin’, I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I’d be six feet under … and because I love your family like they’re my own … and because you’re my best friend and I want to grow old with you.” He starts tearing up, and it’s shocking because I’ve never seen him cry. “Marry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin’ about was comin’ back here and makin’ you my wife. Say yes, chica.” ― Simone Elkeles, Chain Reaction tags: carlos, engagement, kiara, love, proposal 573 likes Like “He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever “Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion tags: books, clichés, constancy, double-standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men,misogyny, opportunities, social-norms, stereotypes, women 720 likes Like “But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.” ― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet tags: love, lunar-chronicles, scarlet, wolf 712 likes Like “And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers “Please.” He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.” And he kisses me. His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’s so effortlessly sweet. And then it changes. “Oh God—” He kisses me again, this time stronger, desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away. He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find that his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and I’m falling. I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me tags: juliette, love, revelation, warner 709 likes Like “The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace” ― Mother Teresa tags: faith, love, mother, path, peace, prayer, service, simple, teresa 680 likes Like “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder tags: beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love,marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters,spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing 671 likes Like “Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.” ― Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day tags: adultery, humor, infidelity, love, relationships, romance, statistics, suspicion 630 likes Like “Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love tags: love, meditation, relationships 628 likes Like “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. tags: justice, love, segregation 626 likes Like “Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?” ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen tags: cruel, god, human, hurt, love, pain 611 likes Like “Ya Rabb, Engkaulah alasan semua kehidupan ini. Engkaulah penjelasan atas semua kehidupan ini. Perasaan itu datang dariMu. Semua perasaan itu juga akan kembali kepadaMu. Kami hanya menerima titipan. Dan semua itu ada sungguh karenaMu... Katakanlah wahai semua pencinta di dunia. Katakanlah ikrar cinta itu hanya karenaNya. Katakanlah semua kehidupan itu hanya karena Allah. Katakanlah semua getar-rasa itu hanya karena Allah. Dan semoga Allah yang Maha Mencinta, yang Menciptakan dunia dengan kasih-sayang mengajarkan kita tentang cinta sejati. Semoga Allah memberikan kesempatan kepada kita untuk merasakan hakikatNya. Semoga Allah sungguh memberikan kesempatan kepada kita untuk memandang wajahNya. Wajah yang akan membuat semua cinta dunia layu bagai kecambah yang tidak pernah tumbuh. Layu bagai api yang tak pernah panas membakar. Layu bagai sebongkah es yang tidak membeku. ” ― Tere Liye, Hafalan Shalat Delisa tags: love, religion 610 likes Like “Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.” ― Jason Mraz tags: anger, frustration, healing, life, love, truth, wisdom 606 likes Like “Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.” ― Hermann Hesse tags: love 596 likes Like “The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ” ― Philip Roth, The Dying Animal tags: love 595 likes Like “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 tags: happy, love, mind, peace, relaxation, sleep, thoughts 595 likes Like “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.” ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven tags: lessons, love 584 likes Like “And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” ― Christopher Poindexter tags: brokenness, drunk, love, misattributed-f-scott-fitzgerald 581 likes Like “After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.” ― Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies tags: love, trust 573 likes Like “If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.” ― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom tags: karma, love 571 likes Like “Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium tags: love 570 likes Like “You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On tags: baz, carry-on, love 570 likes Like “If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.” ― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium tags: love 568 likes Like “Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey tags: love 562 likes Like “Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.” ― W.B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age tags: acting, heartbreak, in-the-seven-woods, loss, love, never-give-all-the-heart, passion, play, w-b-yeats,william-butler-yeats, yeats 560 likes Like “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” ― Pythagoras tags: compassion, love, peace, vegan, vegetarian 556 likes Like “Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ...He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ...Since the first time I saw you ...Nothing but your body, that mouth of yours, and the way your eyes would look at me, if ...Through every sentence I ever said to you, through every conference you thought so safe, through the importance of all the issues we discussed ...You trusted me, didn't you? To recognize your greatness? To think of you as you deserved - as if you were a man? ...Don't you suppose I know how much I've betrayed? The only bright encounter of my life - the only person I respected - the best business man I know - my ally - my partner in a desperate battle ...The lowest of all desires - as my answer to the highest I've met ...Do you know what I am? I thought of it, because it should have been unthinkable. For that degrading need, which would never touch you, I have never wanted anyone but you ...I hadn't known what it was like, to want it, until I saw you for the first time. I had thought : Not I, I couldn't be broken by it ...Since then ...For two years ...With not a moments respite ...Do you know what it's like, to want it? Would you wish to hear what I thought when I looked at you ...When I lay awake at night ...When I hear your voice over a telephone wire ...When I worked, but could not drive it away? ...To bring you down to things you cant conceive - and to know that it's I who have done it. To reduce you to a body, to teach you an animal's pleasure, to see you need it, to see you asking me for it, to see your wonderful spirit dependent on the upon the obscenity of your need. To watch you as you are, as you face the world with your clean, proud strength - then to see you, in my bed, submitting to any infamous whim I may devise, to any act which I'll preform for the sole purpose of watching your dishonor and to which you'll submit for the sake of an unspeakable sensation ...I want you - and may I be damned for it!” ― Ayn Rand tags: love, passion, sex 554 likes Like “You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?” ― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me tags: heartache, heartbreak, love 553 likes Like “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 tags: friendship, joy, love, pain 551 likes Like “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 tags: 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 549 likes Like “You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.” ― Kristan Higgins, My One and Only tags: breakup, couples, divorce, love, sad 547 likes Like “We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.” ― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying tags: love, risk 704 likes Like “If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.” ― C.S. Lewis tags: change, life-lessons, love, pain 682 likes Like “Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.” ― Woody Allen tags: funny, love, sex 681 likes Like “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 tags: adoration, devotion, love, soulmates 656 likes Like “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” ― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems tags: love, poetry 650 likes Like “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 tags: ash, love, meghan 622 likes Like “Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.” ― Leo F. Buscaglia tags: love 606 likes Like “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. The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore tags: love, pain 603 likes Like “To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.” ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove tags: love 591 likes Like “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” ― John Lennon tags: attributed-no-source, love 588 likes Like “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 tags: adrian-ivashkov, love 583 likes Like “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 tags: letter, love, romance 580 likes Like “You made me feel alive again.” ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King tags: life, love 579 likes Like “Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” ― Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall tags: love, poetry 578 likes Like “To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground tags: love 569 likes Like “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 tags: lady-croom, love 568 likes Like “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 tags: city-of-fallen-angels, crazy, eric, funny, humor, love, teen, teenage-love 567 likes Like “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 tags: love, relationships, the-best-of-me 567 likes Like “Everybody is a main character to someone...” ― Amy Harmon, Making Faces tags: love 563 likes Like “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 tags: diplomacy, love, outrage 562 likes Like “The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.” ― Jonathan Antin tags: dating-advice, inspirational, love 556 likes Like “Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.” ― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe tags: advice, gentlemen, humor, love, wisdom 552 likes Like “What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess." He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?" "I love it." He says "Why?" "Because we match.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On tags: adorable, love, mess, romance 551 likes Like “The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares...And the huntress with an artist's soul.” ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury tags: dreams, love, shivers, wonderful 549 likes Like “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 tags: love, soul, soulmates, star 545 likes Like “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 tags: book, cecelia-ahernt, if-you-could-see-me-now, love 541 likes Like “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 tags: just-friends, lock-and-key, love 535 likes Like “Berterimakasihlah pada segala yang memberi kehidupan.” ― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia tags: life, love 530 likes Like “I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees but to be quite upfront and completely truthful you make my body forget it has knees at all.” ― Tyler Knott Gregson, Love Language tags: love, poetry 529 likes Like “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 “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 tags: inspirational, love 889 likes Like “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 tags: betrayal, denny-harris, hurt, love 781 likes Like “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 tags: love, relationships 624 likes Like “Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” ― Christina Westover tags: christina-westover, inspiration, life, lily-sauvage, love, muse, past-relationships, relationships,unrequited-love 614 likes Like “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 tags: love, misery 603 likes Like “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” ― Jim Henson tags: boys, broken-hearts, healing, love, time 584 likes Like “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 tags: family, love 580 likes Like “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 tags: love 557 likes Like “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. tags: 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 556 likes Like “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 tags: admiration, hermann-hesse, love, philosophy, respect, world 551 likes Like “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 tags: clary-fray, jace-and-clary, jace-wayland, love 548 likes Like “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 548 likes Like “All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow. ” ― Nicholas Sparks tags: hope, love 544 likes Like “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 tags: breakup, love, moving-on, romance, young-adult 538 likes Like “And I, infinitesima¬l 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 tags: love 538 likes Like “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 tags: emotion, love 527 likes Like “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 tags: depressing, heartbreak, jealousy, love, sadness, wonder 523 likes Like “The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.” ― W.H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 tags: love, poetry 522 likes Like “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 tags: bridgerton, love, marriage 522 likes Like “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 tags: andrew-parrish, letter, love 521 likes Like “أوجع الأيام بعد الحب، ليس أولها، لأن النبتة لا تتألم فور انقطاع الماء، بل عندما يبدأ الجفاف فعلاً.” ― محمد حسن علوان, طوق الطهارة tags: love, pain 515 likes Like “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 tags: attraction, carlos, kiara, love, true-love 514 likes Like “Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything tags: inspirational, life, love, young-adult 513 likes Like “I knew I loved you before I met you I think I dreamed you into life I knew I loved you before I met you I have been waiting all my life” ― Savage Garden tags: destiny, devotion, love 512 likes Like “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 tags: kiss, love 510 likes Like “Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.” ― Osho tags: love 510 likes Like “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will 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 me A little while, that in me sings no more.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay tags: love, poetry 509 likes Like “The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.” ― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare tags: agape, love, marriage, unconditional-love 506 likes Like “How can something so wrong feel so right?” ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden tags: love 506 likes Like “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina “He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.” ― Brian Andreas tags: adoration, love, relationships, story-people 1438 likes Like “You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.” ― James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports tags: fang, humor, love, love-struck, max, maxride 749 likes Like “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 tags: fiction, humor, love 693 likes Like “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 tags: hope, love 667 likes Like “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 tags: devotion, love, true-love 605 likes Like “Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight tags: death, love, self-sacrifice 589 likes Like “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 tags: art, creativity, life, love, monotony, passion, time, variety, work 585 likes Like “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 tags: love, obsession 575 likes Like “Make me into anything, but just love me.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters tags: love 567 likes Like “What I cannot love, I overlook.” ― Anaïs Nin tags: forgiveness, love, sanity 566 likes Like “Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire tags: clace, clary-fray, herondale, jace, love, shadowhunters 562 likes Like “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 tags: beautiful, beauty, flawed, imperfect, love, self-love, soul 561 likes Like “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 tags: eyes, god, knowledge, love, medieval, mysticism, religious-experience, seeing, understanding, vision 555 likes Like “A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.” ― Abraham Cowley, The Poems of Abraham Cowley tags: love, unappreciated, unrequited-love, vain 548 likes Like “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 tags: being-loved, love 546 likes Like “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 tags: love, marilyn-monroe, my-story 538 likes Like “Sometimes people don’t understand the 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’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: keep, love, promises, the-fault-in-our-stars, truth 527 likes Like “I love you, a thousand times over. And I will never apologize for it.” ― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn tags: love 522 likes Like “Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.” ― Kiera Cass, The Elite tags: history, love, tangled 521 likes Like “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 tags: beauty, love, you 520 likes Like “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 tags: leaving, love, pain 517 likes Like “When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.” ― Shannon L. Alder tags: best-friend, boyfriend, gentlemen, godly-man, gratitude, happiness, honor, in-love, kindness, love,marriage, men, quality, relationships, respect, romance, spouse, true-love 516 likes Like “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 tags: dear-john, love, nicholas-sparks 515 likes Like “When you find love, you take it. You grab it with both hands and you do everything in your power not to let it go. You can’t just walk away from it and expect it to linger until you’re ready for it.” ― Colleen Hoover, November 9 tags: love 514 likes Like “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 tags: love, true-love 513 likes Like “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 tags: connection, love 511 likes Like “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 499 likes Like “The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing” ― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist tags: love 499 likes Like “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 tags: adoration, advice, love, women 497 likes Like “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 “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.” ― Andrea Gibson tags: autumn, love 725 likes Like “What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but also by, as I once believed, a true friend.” ― Danka V., The Unchosen Life tags: betrayal, cheating, love 718 likes Like “Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.” ― Paul McCartney tags: beatles, kiss, love, miss-you, music, song-lyrics, tomorrow 653 likes Like “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 tags: friends, love, self 648 likes Like “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 tags: death, love, poetry 620 likes Like “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 tags: love, romance 603 likes Like “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ― Mother Teresa tags: inspirational, love, smile 566 likes Like “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 tags: love, nora, patch, search 560 likes Like “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 tags: annabeth-chase, love, percy-jackson 559 likes Like “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 tags: love, romance 557 likes Like “..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.” ― Harlan Coben tags: love, memorable 546 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 545 likes Like “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: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance tags: love, relationships 543 likes Like “They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina tags: happiness, love 539 likes Like “Unending Love I 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 you The 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 tags: love, reincarnation, soulmates 537 likes Like “Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all...” ― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John tags: love 520 likes Like “These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight tags: emma-carstairs, julian-blackthorn, lady-midnight, love 515 likes Like “Love is too precious to be ashamed of.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight tags: happiness, inspirational, love, prejudice, romance 508 likes Like “Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated tags: death, grief, life, love 506 likes Like “I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever tags: balance, change, hard, love, scary, someone 501 likes Like “Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.” ― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus tags: ecstasy, love, passion, sexuality 499 likes Like “Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles” ― Tahereh Mafi tags: dystopia, hate, inspirational, love, shatter-me, young-adult 491 likes Like “I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.” ― Dave Eggers, What Is the What tags: carpe-diem, love 488 likes Like “He came up and kissed me on my forehead, and before he stepped away, I closed my eyes and tried hard to memorize this moment. I wanted to remember him exactly as he was right then, how his arms looked brown against his white shirt, the way his hair was cut a little too short in the front. Even the bruise, there because of me. Then he was gone. Just for that moment, the thought that I might never see him again… it felt worse than death. I wanted to run after him. Tell him anything, everything. Just don’t go. Please just never go. Please just always be near me, so I can at least see you. Because it felt final. I always believed that we would find our way back to each other every time. That no matter what, we would be connected—by our history, by this house. But this time, this last time, it felt final. Like I would never see him again, or that when I did, it would be different, there would be a mountain between us. I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn’t expect was to feel so much grief. Bye bye, Birdie.” ― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer tags: goodbyes, loss, love 487 likes Like “I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.” ― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls tags: heart, love, melancholy 484 likes Like “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” ― Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved tags: learn, love, perfect, person 481 likes Like “If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside.” ― Rachel Vincent, Shift tags: heartbreak, jace-hammond, love 480 likes Like “I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant tags: four-and-tris, love, together 473 likes Like “The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations tags: estella, irresistibility, love, perfection, pip 473 likes Like “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” ― George Eliot, Adam Bede “Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” ― Julianne Moore tags: love, trust 734 likes Like “She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?” ― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl tags: college-romance, falling-in-love, fangirl, levi, love, rainbow-rowell, romance, teen 660 likes Like “He was the toast to her butter.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One tags: compatibility, love 659 likes Like “misgivings, n. Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.” ― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary tags: couples, definition, love, relationships 619 likes Like “Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.” ― Graham Greene, The Comedians tags: breakup, love, romance 590 likes Like “...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth tags: courage, friendship, love 564 likes Like “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.” ― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time tags: love 550 likes Like “The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.” ― Robert Frost tags: devotion, love, poetry 544 likes Like “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 tags: love, sex, women 543 likes Like “But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.” ― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him tags: abuse, hurt, love, teen, ya, young-adult 540 likes Like “She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.” ― Charles Bukowski tags: fire, love, magic, women 534 likes Like “So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals tags: friendship, love, service 524 likes Like “If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone tags: coelho, love 517 likes Like “Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass tags: being-single, dating, finding-love, living-life-to-the-fullest, living-your-best-life, love, not-settling,positive-thinking, praying-for-love, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman 516 likes Like “Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.” ― Pearl S. Buck tags: love 510 likes Like “This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.” ― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun tags: love, revolution 510 likes Like “I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil tags: husbands, love, marriage 504 likes Like “Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.” ― Paulo Coelho tags: love 496 likes Like “Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.” ― Mario Puzo, Fools Die tags: betrayal, hurt, life, love, woman 496 likes Like “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” ― Charles M. Schulz tags: lonely, love 491 likes Like “I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me.” “Me, too,” he breathes. “My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.” ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker tags: emotional, love, romance 490 likes Like “The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.” ― Carrie Underwood tags: boys, carrie-underwood, dogs, love 490 likes Like “Shazi, I prefer the color blue to any other. The scent of lilacs in your hair is a source of constant torment. I despise figs. Lastly, I will never forget, all the days of my life, the memories of last night— For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you. Khalid.” ― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn tags: khalid, love, shahrzad 484 likes Like “Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.” ― bell hooks tags: drug, emotion, feeling, genuine, insightful, love 474 likes Like “But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.” ― Kahlil Gibran tags: desire, joy, love 471 likes Like “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet tags: desire, glove, hand-in-glove, longing, love, touch 470 likes Like “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: community, connection, friendship, goethe, inspirational, love 469 likes Like “Tears are words the heart can't express” ― Gerard Way tags: definitions, life, love 468 likes Like “I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.” ― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye tags: love 465 likes Like “I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.” ― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed “I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tags: love, regret 668 likes Like “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!” ― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love 579 likes Like “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: abundance, action, choice, happiness, hope, inspirational, love, motivational, nature, success 532 likes Like “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice tags: elizabeth-bennett, love, mr-darcy 525 likes Like “والقهوة يجب أن يقدّمها لك شخصٌ ما. القهوةُ كالوَرْد، فالورد يقدّمه لك سِواك، ولا أحدَ يقدّم ورداً لنفسه. وإن أعددتها لنفسك فأنت لحظتها في عزلة حرة بلا عاشق أو عزيز، غريبٌ في مكانك. وإن كان هذا اختياراً فأنت تدفع ثمن حريتك، وإن كان اضطراراً فأنت في حاجةٍ إلى جرس الباب.” ― مريد البرغوثي, ولدت هناك، ولدت هنا tags: coffee, loneliness, love 510 likes Like “and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.” ― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life tags: beauty, butterfly, childhood, human, human-nature, india, life, love, peace, ruskin-bond, war 494 likes Like “We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” ― Maya Angelou tags: courage, fear, freedom, life, lonliness, love, pain, poetry 491 likes Like “I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.” ― Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year tags: children, love, parenting 486 likes Like “I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.” ― Jenny Downham, Before I Die tags: love 484 likes Like “Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.” ― Nayyirah Waheed tags: inspire, love 484 likes Like “Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.” ― Jess C. Scott, Tongue-Tied tags: bisexuality, body, desire, funny, gender, gender-bending, gender-equality, honesty, individuality, lgbt,love, philosophy, relationships, sexuality 479 likes Like “I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go tags: lost, love, norfolk 478 likes Like “Every life has one true love snapshot.” ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven tags: love 471 likes Like “Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.” ― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting tags: love 469 likes Like “My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.” ― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel tags: body, books, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour,imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex,technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth 467 likes Like “I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.” ― Charles Bukowski, Women tags: love 467 likes Like “When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bare my soul, with words, for all to see.” ― Jennifer Salaiz tags: heartbreak, love, soulmate, writing 466 likes Like “If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle tags: bhie, feeling, love, message-in-a-bottle, nicholas-sparks, regret, wondering 465 likes Like “We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over. I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.' I couldn’t even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he’d always been. He’d never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever. Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye. I looked at him, and I thought, 'If I was very brave or very honest, I would tell him.' I would say it, so he would know it and I would know it, and I could never take it back. But I wasn’t that brave or honest, so all I did was look at him. And I think he knew anyway. 'I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.' I was the one to look away first.” ― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You tags: breakup, goodbye, inspirational, letting-go, love, release, romance 463 likes Like “I'm not married,” he said softly, “because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass tags: love, marriage 462 likes Like “To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.” ― Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God tags: bond, commitment, love, marriage 460 likes Like “Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.” ― Brian Andreas tags: life, longing, love, relationships, story-people 453 likes Like “If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.” ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha tags: geisha, love, memoirs, woman 452 likes Like “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 452 likes Like “The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.” ― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love tags: intimacy, life-lessons, love, peace, peacekeeping, philosophy, poetry, relationships, spirituality, trust,war 450 likes Like “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 450 likes Like “Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.” ― Christopher Paolini, Eldest tags: closeness, family, love 448 likes Like “But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love tags: eat, from, love, pray 444 likes Like “I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...talking." I started to turn; then I heard him say abruptly, "No." I glanced back. "What?" He held my gaze, and something warm and wonderful and powerful shot between us. "No," he repeated. "I told her no." "I..." I shut my mouth before my jaw hit the floor. "But...why? That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You could have had a baby. And she...she was, you know, into you..." The ghost of a smile flickered on his face. "Yes, she was. Is. And that's why I had to say no. I couldn't return that...couldn't give her what she wanted. Not when..." He took a few steps toward me. "Not when my heart is somewhere else.” ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite tags: dimitri, love, paranormal-romance, rose 444 likes Like “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” ― Roger de Rabutin de Bussy “You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tags: love 778 likes Like “Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.” ― Marie Lu, Prodigy tags: logic, love 601 likes Like “i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey tags: art, eyes, love, museum 567 likes Like “Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. [...] This is a little drunken, Anaïs. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.” ― Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953 tags: love 532 likes Like “Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.” ― John Milton tags: freedom, love 521 likes Like “Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.” ― Colleen Hoover tags: literature, love 513 likes Like “Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?" "I do indeed, sir." "Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you, and not a strait waistcoat--your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me: if you flew at me as wildly as that woman did this morning, I should receive you in an embrace, at least as fond as it would be restrictive. I should not shrink from you with disgust as I did from her: in your quiet moments you should have no watcher and no nurse but me; and I could hang over you with untiring tenderness, though you gave me no smile in return; and never weary of gazing into your eyes, though they had no longer a ray of recognition for me.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre tags: love, pain, relationship, sickness 510 likes Like “When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)” ― Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After tags: love, marriage 510 likes Like “Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend tags: attraction, love, strength 500 likes Like “One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?” ― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo tags: emotion, halo, human-language, liane, love, word 492 likes Like “I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.” ― Lev Grossman, The Magicians tags: desire, love, relationships, trouble 491 likes Like “Did you mean it... that if Victor did tell...that you'd..." I couldn't finish. I couldn't bring myself to say the words have him killed. "I don't have much influence in the upper levels of Moroi royalty, but I have plenty among the guardians who handle the dirty work in our world." "You didn't answer the question. If you'd really do it." "I'd do a lot of things to protect you, Roza.” ― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss tags: love 487 likes Like “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: love, rumi 485 likes Like “Can I say something?' 'Go on' 'I'm a little drunk' 'Me too. That's okay.' 'Just....I missed you, you know.' 'I missed you too.' 'But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and you weren't there-' 'same here.' 'I tell you what it is. It's.....When I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean EVERY DAY in some way or another-' 'same here.' '-Even if it was just "I wish Dexter could see this" or "Where's Dexter now?" or "Christ that Dexter, what an idiot", you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my BEST friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby- I'm so happy for you, Dex, but it feels like I've lost you again.'- -'You know what happens you have a family, your responsibilities change, you lose touch with people' 'It won't be like that, I promise.' 'Do you?' 'Absolutely' 'You swear? No more disappearing?' 'I won't if you won't.' Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of glorious confusion.” ― David Nicholls, One Day tags: friendship, love, moving-on 474 likes Like “Sweets to the sweet.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet tags: death, love, shakespeare 468 likes Like “Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.” ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker tags: love, questions 466 likes Like “Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.” ― Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems tags: life, love, pain, poetry, struggle 462 likes Like “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: love, world 457 likes Like “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 456 likes Like “Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.” ― Maggi Richard tags: breaking-up, heartbreak, letters, love, words 452 likes Like “Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.” ― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory tags: love 447 likes Like “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” ― Cornel West tags: justice, love, society, wisdom 446 likes Like “Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.” ― Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew tags: god, love 443 likes Like “Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.” ― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars tags: books, love 443 likes Like “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: inspirational, love 438 likes Like “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 437 likes Like “I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated tags: distance, longing, love 437 likes Like “كما قلت لك : ( قلب الرجل لا يخلو من امرأة ) , قد تكون امرأة حية أو ميتة, قد تكون زوجة أو صديقة, وقد تكون شيئًا آخر. دائمًا توجد امرأة. أمّا إذا رأيت رجلاً ليس في قلبه امرأة فتأكّد أن ما تراه ليس رجلاً, إنه جثّة تريد قبرًا.” ― Abdul Rahman Munif, الأشجار واغتيال مرزوق tags: love 436 likes Like “Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?” “Are you calling me stupid?” “Yes, but in a more poetic way!” “Well, here’s a poem for you. Get lost!” ― Colleen Houck tags: humor, love, romance 433 likes Like “Know that love is truly timeless.” ― Mary M. Ricksen “Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.” ― Jeffrey McDaniel tags: devotion, fidelity, love, obsession 697 likes Like “I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. 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 660 likes Like “I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.” ― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories tags: distraction, intimacy, love, memory, past 613 likes Like “I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why they hate you, as soon as they are sure of you.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker tags: calling, love, men, relationships 523 likes Like “People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care tags: love 513 likes Like “You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated tags: love 510 likes Like “You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.” ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon tags: love, self-worth, women 505 likes Like “I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tags: katniss, love, missing-you, peeta, relationships, the-hunger-games 498 likes Like “Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.” ― Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret? tags: friendship, love, romance 473 likes Like “Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.” ― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith tags: hope, love 469 likes Like “The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!” ― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas tags: hate, love 461 likes Like “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” ― Maya Angelou tags: love, perfect-fit 455 likes Like “The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ -- all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself -- that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness -- that I myself am the enemy who must be loved -- what then? As a rule, the Christian's attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us "Raca," and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.” ― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections tags: christianity, denial, forgiveness, love, morality, self-image 452 likes Like “When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.” ― Coco J. Ginger tags: cold-soul, heart, jamie-weise, love, lovers, missing, missing-you, passion 451 likes Like “Cassia. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle. I love you. (Ky Markham)” ― Ally Condie, Matched tags: fight, love, reason, story, strength 450 likes Like “Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.” ― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty tags: fate, love 443 likes Like “She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram tags: love 443 likes Like “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.” ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tags: forgiveness, love, rain 442 likes Like “Love makes us such fools.” ― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender tags: love 438 likes Like “I… What are you saying, Zsadist?" she stammered, even though she'd heard every word. He glanced back down at the pencil in his hand and then turned to the table. Flipping the spiral notebook to a new page, he bent way over and labored on top of the paper for quite a while. Then he ripped the sheet free. His hand was shaking as he held it out. "It's messy." Bella took the paper. In a child's uneven block letters there were three words: I LOVE YOU Her lips flattened tight as her eyes stung. The handwriting got wavy and then disappeared. "Maybe you can't read it," he said in a small voice. "I can do it over." She shook her head. "I can read it just fine. It's… beautiful." "I don't expect anything back. I mean… I know that you don't… feel that for me anymore. But I wanted you to know. It's important that you knew.” ― J.R. Ward, Lover Awakened tags: bella, love, lover-awakened, z, zsadist 438 likes Like “Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?" "Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.” ― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades tags: calypso, funny, humor, leo-valdez, love 435 likes Like “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 427 likes Like “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?” ― Shannon L. Alder tags: best-friends, betrayal, boyfriends, break-ups, dating, divorce, family, friends, friendships, girlfriends,lost-love, love, loved-ones, lovers, marriage, moving-on, parents, ponderings, reflection, relationships,romance, senseless, soulmates, true-love, unrequited-love 427 likes Like “Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” ― Rabindranath Tagore tags: love 424 likes Like “Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.” ― Hannah Harrington, Speechless tags: hate, love, wisdom 424 likes Like “Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince tags: le-petit-prince, life, love, wisdom 424 likes Like “Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration tags: acceptance, affection, appreciation, complex, dimension, dimensions, love, love-triangle, measure,properties, property, qualities, three, three-dimensional, triangle, trinity, two, two-dimensional,unconditional, unconditional-acceptance, unconditional-love, understand, understanding, whole, world 423 likes Like “It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.” ― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight tags: issa, love 421 likes Like “Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood “Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms “A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night” ― James Patterson tags: love 612 likes Like “Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.” ― Margaret Weis, Dragons of a Lost Star tags: inspirational, love 590 likes Like “But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding tags: love, romance 539 likes Like “I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther tags: love, sadness, waste 504 likes Like “I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.” ― Alan Paton tags: complaining, love 501 likes Like “In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.” ― Simone de Beauvoir tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love 489 likes Like “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.” ― John Ruskin tags: love, pride 486 likes Like “We're all golden sunflowers inside.” ― Allen Ginsberg tags: contentment, happiness, love 484 likes Like “What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tags: appearances, bill-weasley, fleur-delacour, love 482 likes Like “Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.” ― William Paul Young, The Shack tags: love, relationships, respect, submission 460 likes Like “Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro, los he visto. Como si se pudiera elegir en el amor, como si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio. Vos dirás que la eligen porque-la-aman, yo creo que es al vesre. A Beatriz no se la elige, a Julieta no se la elige. Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto.” ― Julio Cortázar, Rayuela tags: amor, life, love 460 likes Like “Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.” ― Tiffany Madison tags: confidence, independence, love, man, modern-society, relationships, women 450 likes Like “Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. There is nothing in nature like it. Not in robins or bison or in the banging tails of your hunting dogs and not in blossoms or suckling foal. Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplations - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-carefully. And if you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love. Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges: the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it. How do you know you have graduated? You don't. What you do know is that you are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself which is to say He is interested only in love. Do you understand me? God is not interested in you. He is interested in love and the bliss it brings to those who understand and share the interest. Couples that enter the sacrament of marriage and are not prepared to go the distance or are not willing to get right with the real love of God cannot thrive. They may cleave together like robins or gulls or anything else that mates for life. But if they eschew this mighty course, at the moment when all are judged for the disposition of their eternal lives, their cleaving won't mean a thing. God bless the pure and holy. Amen.” ― Toni Morrison, Paradise tags: god, love 450 likes Like “It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said. Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking Small's neck with great deliberation, as if the fate of the Dells depended on that smooth, careful movement. "I have two responses to that," He said at last. "First, everyone is going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reason I loved my father." He looked at her keenly. "Did you love yours?" "Yes," she whispered. He stroked Small's nose. "I love you," he said, "even knowing you'll never have me. And I love my brother, more than I ever realized before you came along. You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.” ― Kristin Cashore, Fire tags: bad-fathers, death, logic, love 447 likes Like “Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.” ― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone tags: love 437 likes Like “It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.” ― Raymond Carver tags: love 437 likes Like “I think everything that happened in Idris-Valentine, Max, Hodge, even Sebastian-I kept shoving it all down, trying to forget, but it's catching up with me. I... I'll get help. I'll get better. I promise." "You promise." "I swear on the Angel." He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. "The hell with that. I swear on us.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love, oath 426 likes Like “Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale tags: chasing, friends, friendship, knowing-your-worth, love, not-settling, positive-thinking, self-worth, stop-the-chase, the-single-woman, true-friends, true-love 425 likes Like “I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind tags: denna, friendship, love 424 likes Like “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov tags: love 424 likes Like “Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. 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. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.” ― W.H. Auden, Another Time tags: death, love, poetry 423 likes Like “The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.” ― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River tags: eternity, forever, infinity, love, paradox, time, universe 419 likes Like “A woman should soften but not weaken a man.” ― Sigmund Freud tags: love 415 likes Like “If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.” ― W.H. Auden tags: affection, equality, love, relationships 414 likes Like “And life definitely doesn't want me To just let it tell me that the girl I met, The beautiful, amazing, strong, resilient girl That I fell so hard for Should only come in third Life knows. Life is trying to tell ne That the girl I love The girl I fell So hard for? There's room for her in first. I'm putting her first.” ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed tags: falling-in-love, girl, life, love 414 likes Like “But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay tags: in-love, love, time 412 likes Like “When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.” ― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys tags: love, men, relationship 412 likes Like “I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.” ― Turcois Ominek tags: chances, deserve, done, ending, guilty, leaving, letting-go, love, over, sad, truth 410 likes Like “Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.” ― Scott Turow tags: disappointment, love, melancholy 409 likes Like “After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished?” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems “Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly tags: catholic-author, falling-in-love, first-love, i-love-you, i-love-you-always, i-love-you-no-matter-what,idealism, inspirational-love, love, love-at-first-sight, poetry, romance, romantic, self-discovery, soul-mates,supernatural, true-love 590 likes Like “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 578 likes Like “And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night tags: humor, love, morality, sex 559 likes Like “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 538 likes Like “Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.” ― Bill Ayers tags: children, compassion, discipline, love, parenting 528 likes Like “When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.” ― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe tags: love 514 likes Like “It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.” ― Jason Mraz tags: dreams, imagination, inspirational, jason-mraz, life, love, test, truth 495 likes Like “I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?” ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing tags: love 492 likes Like “Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire tags: herondales, jace-herondale, jem-carstairs, love, pg-234 464 likes Like “Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?” ― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless tags: love 464 likes Like “Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.” ― Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret tags: girls, lesbian, love, romance 461 likes Like “You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight tags: adoration, love 457 likes Like “abyss, n. There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've given you, and the waste of all the time I've spent on us.” ― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary tags: love, separation 451 likes Like “Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?” ― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty tags: friends, inspirational, life, love 446 likes Like “Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.” ― Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948-1984 tags: love, poetry, self 445 likes Like “People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: happiness, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, life, life-and-living,living, love, lust, lust-for-everything, lust-for-life, lustful, lusting, lusts, lusty, passion, passionate-life,passionate-living, passions 443 likes Like “I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. ” ― Nikki Giovanni tags: love, poetry, rain, snow 429 likes Like “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 424 likes Like “Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.” ― Euripides, Medea tags: hate, incurable, love, retaliation, revenge, wounds 421 likes Like “Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.” ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way tags: emotions, home, hope, love, people 420 likes Like “love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky” ― E.E. Cummings tags: love 416 likes Like “I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower tags: love, romance 415 likes Like “Love. Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio. The real kind. The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres. The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish. The kind that can forgives. The kind that believes in healing. The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed. The real kind of love. It's rare and we have it..” ― Chelsea Fine, Sophie & Carter tags: inspirational-quotes, love, relationships 413 likes Like “Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.” ― Mario Benedetti tags: dreams, love, poetry, time 410 likes Like “You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.” ― Rachel Ward, Numbers tags: end, gone, goodbye, leaving, lost, love, pain 406 likes Like “You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.” ― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer tags: consequences, hurt, live, love, taste 406 likes Like “A girl can still admire, can’t she? Even those who can’t afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn’t for me didn’t mean I couldn’t covet the merchandise.” ― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse tags: attractiveness, humor, love, male-beauty, romance, sex-appeal 403 likes Like “How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.” ― Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle tags: humor, love, relationships 403 likes Like “It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.” ― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings tags: love, romance 402 likes Like “twice I have lived forever in a smile” ― E.E. Cummings “I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.” ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 tags: loneliness, love 560 likes Like “Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” ― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram tags: love 544 likes Like “It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park tags: love, romance 518 likes Like “I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song tags: flirting, humor, love 508 likes Like “I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess tags: love, tessa-gray, will-herondale 502 likes Like “We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down tags: john-green, love, turtles-all-the-way-down 496 likes Like “So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha tags: love, making-love, pleasure, respect, sensuality, sex, touch 495 likes Like “I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.” ― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo tags: hurt, lost, love 486 likes Like “Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.” ― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom tags: friendship, love 469 likes Like “I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.” ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice tags: love, omg, vampire-academy 454 likes Like “Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.” ― Emily Dickinson tags: love 450 likes Like “Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book tags: choice, dancing, life, love, name, neil-gaiman, pain, personality, pleasure, the-graveyard-book, treasure 435 likes Like “I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.” ― Paul Auster, Moon Palace tags: love 433 likes Like “Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do. ” ― Ann Brashares tags: love, passion 432 likes Like “You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?” ― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn tags: breathe, love 427 likes Like “L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.” ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy tags: grandness, love, passion, true-love 423 likes Like “What's a fuck when what I want is love?” ― Henry Miller tags: love, sex 422 likes Like “I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.” ― Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire tags: anger, betrayal, frustration, hurt, love, pain 421 likes Like “I love you," I said, and stabbed him.” ― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses tags: feyre, love, stabbed, tamlin 420 likes Like “If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.” ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler tags: love, reading, sex 419 likes Like “What are you doing?” “Kneeling before a goddess.” “I’m not a goddess.” “You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a soldier, I pledge myself to your service. As a prince, I grant you any boon within my power. As a man, I ask to sit at your feet and worship you. Ask me to do anything for you and I will do it.” ― Colleen Houck tags: love, romance 416 likes Like “We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant tags: affection, four, love, touch, tris 413 likes Like “It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.” ― Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted tags: betrayal, lindsay, lost-love, love, yearning 413 likes Like “Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven tags: deserve-love, love, love-worth, nicholas-sparks, safe-haven 399 likes Like “You're asking me to define an abstract concept that no one has managed to explain since time began. You sort of sprang it on me," Gansey said. "Why do we breathe air? Because we love air? Because we don't want to suffocate. Why do we eat? Because we don't want to starve. How do I know I love her? Because I can sleep after I talk to her. Why?” ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King tags: adam-parrish, love, richard-gansey, the-raven-king 398 likes Like “What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?” ― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle tags: love 396 likes Like “Love is a wonderful gift. It's a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. It is a blessing that should be counted every day. It is nourishment for the soul. It is devotion, constantly letting each person know how supportive it's certainty can be. Love is a heart filled with affection for the most important person in your life. Love is looking at the special someone who makes your world go around and absolutely loving what you see. Love gives meaning to one's world and magic to a million hopes and dreams. It makes the morning shine more brightly and each season seem like it's the nicest one anyone ever had. Love is an invaluable bond that enriches every good thing in life. It gives each hug a tenderness, each heart a happiness, each spirit a steady lift. Love is an invisible connection that is exquisitely felt by those who know the joy, feel the warmth, share the sweetness, and celebrate the gift! ” ― Douglas Pagels tags: love 395 likes Like “I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.” ― Dee Henderson, The Healer tags: inspirational, love, romantic 394 likes Like “Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too Even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to Quickly I'm learning to love again All I know is I'mma be ok” ― Leona Lewis tags: breakup, couples, heartbreak, love, relationships, sad 391 likes Like “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
” ― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91. “It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.” ― David Levithan, Every Day tags: love 712 likes Like “When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince tags: love 590 likes Like “When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tags: love 519 likes Like “The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.” ― Gabriel García Márquez tags: love, marriage 503 likes Like “I don't think you can define love.” ― Harry Styles tags: cute, harry-styles, love, one-direction 503 likes Like “But when I touch you, your aura … it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?” He used that hand to pull me closer. “Why do you react that way if I don’t mean anything to you?” There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.” ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell tags: adrian-ivashkov, aura, bloodlines, cute, love, richelle-mead, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell 489 likes Like “My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park tags: love, relationships 473 likes Like “But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite” ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero tags: beauty, inspirational, love 453 likes Like “Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver tags: cute, funny, love, shiver-maggie-stiefvater-space 435 likes Like “You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes tags: depression, love 433 likes Like “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina tags: love, woman 423 likes Like “Makakapili ka ng lugar na uupuan mo, pero hindi mo mapipili ang taong uupo sa puwang sa tabi mo... Ganyan ang senaryo sa bus. Ganyan din sa pag-ibig... Lalong 'di mo kontrolado kung kelan siya bababa.” ― Bob Ong tags: inspirational, love 414 likes Like “Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.” ― Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart tags: abe-mazur, love, wisdom 408 likes Like “I love you and it's getting worse.” ― Joseph E. Morris tags: devotion, humor, love 405 likes Like “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 394 likes Like “This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.” ― James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's tags: broken-heart, forgetting, love 393 likes Like “I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska tags: love 392 likes Like “الحب هو ذكاء المسافة، ألّا تقترب كثيرًا فتلغي اللهفة، ولا تبتعد طويلًا فتُنسى.” ― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك tags: love, wisdom 392 likes Like “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” ― Jane Austen tags: love 390 likes Like “I...will never...regret you.” ― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday tags: love 387 likes Like “Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.” ― Lady Gaga tags: high-school, lady-gaga, love, music, school 387 likes Like “I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords tags: jaime-lannister, love, romance 386 likes Like “I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments tags: life, love 386 likes Like “Physical love is unthinkable without violence.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being tags: love, relationships, romance, violence 385 likes Like “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 383 likes Like “If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.” ― Mik Everett tags: love, writer, writing 382 likes Like “So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme…. There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people carried a little bunch of string in their pockets, but people considered loudmouths had no less need for it, since those used to being overheard by everyone were often at a loss for how to make themselves heard by someone. The physical distance between two people using a string was often small; sometimes the smaller the distance, the greater the need for the string. The practice of attaching cups to the ends of string came much later. Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world’s first expression. Others say it was started by a man who held the end of a string that was unraveled across the ocean by a girl who left for America. When the world grew bigger, and there wasn’t enough string to keep the things people wanted to say from disappearing into the vastness, the telephone was invented. Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person’s silence.” ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love tags: listening, love, poignant 381 likes Like “Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tags: life, love, relationships 381 likes Like “It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it’s a delightful story.” ― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady tags: desire, love, satisfaction 379 likes Like “I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.” ― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters “You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.” ― Julie de Lespinasse tags: heartache, love, passion, relationships, romance 556 likes Like “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.” ― George Orwell, 1984 tags: betrayal, confession, love 523 likes Like “Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.” ― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number tags: love 486 likes Like “Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.” ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps tags: coffee, happy, london, love, morning, simple-living, wander 482 likes Like “I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tags: happiness, love, relationship 447 likes Like “I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars tags: an, augustus, augustus-waters, can-t, have, i, love, true, why 439 likes Like “Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.” ― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise tags: honesty, love, respect 422 likes Like “Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.” ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander tags: cradle, enjoy, hate, hatred, humiliate, love, sculpt, soft, tiring, use 421 likes Like “I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables tags: love 420 likes Like “There will never be no love at all.” ― Bob Marley tags: double-negatives, love 414 likes Like “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 404 likes Like “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 399 likes Like “A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr. tags: kiss, love 394 likes Like “Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do." "What way might that be?" "As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me." " I am not afraid of you," Marco says.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus tags: kiss, love 391 likes Like “Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ” ― Roger A. Caras tags: dogs, faith, love 390 likes Like “He offered her the world. She said she had her own.” ― Monique Duval tags: freedom, love, monique-duval, relationship 390 likes Like “Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am” ― Christopher Poindexter tags: lonliness, love, poetry 388 likes Like “Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: heathcliff, love, passion 387 likes Like “The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.” ― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance tags: inspirational, love, timing 383 likes Like “Except fang. I glared at him. "Go on, try to stop me, I dare you." It was like the old days when we used to wrestle, each trying to get the better of the other. I was ready to take him down, my hands curled into fist. "I was just going to say be careful," Fang told me. He stepped closer and brushed some hair out of my eyes. "And I've got your back." He motioned with his head toward the torpedo chamber. Oh my God. It hit me like a tsunami then, how perfect he was for me, how no one else would ever, could ever, be so perfect for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope for, as a friend, boyfriend, maybe even more. He was it for me. There would be no more looking. I really, really loved him, with a whole new kind of love I'd never felt before, something that made every other kind of love I'd ever felt feel washed out and wimpy in comparison. I loved him with every cell in my body, every thought in my head, every feather in my wings, every breathe in my lungs. and air sacs. Too bad I was going out to face almost certain death. Right there in front of everyone, I threw my arms around his neck and smashed my mouth against his. He was startled for a second, then his strong arms wrapped around me so tightly I could hardly breathe. "ZOMG," I heard Nudge whisper, but still fang and I kissed slanting our heads this way and that to get closer. I could have stood there and kissed him happily for the next millennium, but Angel, or what was left of her was still out there in the could dark ocean. Reluctantly, I ended the kiss, took a step back. Fang's obsidian eyes were glittering brightly and his stoic face had a look of wonder on it."Gotta go," I said quietly. A half smile quirked his mouth. "Yeah. Hurry back." I nodded and he stepped out of the air lock chamber, keeping his eyes fixed on me, memorizing me as he hit the switch that sealed the chamber. The doors hissed shut with a kind of finality, and I realized that my heart was beating so hard it felt like it was going to start snapping ribs. I was scared. I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifyingly in love. I was on a death mission. Before my head simply exploded from so much emotion, I hit the large button that pressurized the air lock enough for the doors to open to the ocean outside. I really, really hoped that I would prove somewhat uncrushable, like Angel did. The door cracked open below me and I saw the first dark glint of frigid water.” ― James Patterson, Maximum Ride Five-Book Set tags: fang, love, maximu-ride 382 likes Like “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 381 likes Like “For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun tags: love, waiting 379 likes Like “The center will hold.” “How do you know?” “Because we are the center.” ― Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart tags: love, strength 377 likes Like “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin tags: faith, love, peace 376 likes Like “Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.” ― Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night tags: ficbookreview-s-fave, love, romance 374 likes Like “I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like.” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: acceptance-of-oneself, forgive-yourself, forgiveness, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, love 373 likes Like “I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine” ― Taylor Swift tags: i-d-lie, love, lyrics, songs, taylor-swift, unknown-love 371 likes Like “A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.” ― Shannon L. Alder tags: acceptance, adversity, best-friend, breakups, caring, child, cruelty, dad, dumped, endings, family,friendship, hurt, illness, love, mental-disorders, misunderstood-fights, mom, pain, rejection, sorrow, spouse,support, support-system, tough-times, trials, true-friendship 368 likes Like “How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?” ― Jodi Picoult, The Pact tags: adoration, devotion, love 363 likes Like “I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel Ray, stealing my key to true calm. In this part of the story I am the one who Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.” ― Pablo Neruda “Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.” ― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom tags: christianity, love 618 likes Like “So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.' I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.' There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair...” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tags: kiss, love 572 likes Like “People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.” ― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun tags: change, death, forever, life, love, relationships 514 likes Like “Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.” ― Holly Black tags: hurt, love 499 likes Like “There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.” ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still tags: forever, friendship, love, okay, suicide, suicide-note 448 likes Like “As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.” ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden tags: bhie, forbidden, hurt, lochan, love, tabitha-suzuma 437 likes Like “We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.” ― Marianne Williamson tags: love 435 likes Like “Shut up…let me tell you, LET ME. Every time I look at your face or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me and you’re just fun and you shit all over me and you make fun of me and you’re real. I don’t have enough time in any day to think about you enough...I don’t even think about women anymore. I think about you.” ― Louis C.K. tags: comedian, louis-ck, love, romance, unrequited-love 423 likes Like “I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation tags: love 414 likes Like “Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.” ― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home tags: love, relationships 414 likes Like “I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderful, its made life possible, when I rub my hands against each other in the middle of winter I am warming myself with the friction of YES and NO, when I clap my hands I am showing my appreciation through the uniting and parting of YES and NO, I signify "book" by peeling open my hands, every book, for me, is the balance of YES and NO, even this one, my last one, especially this one. Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer tags: grief, love, sadness 414 likes Like “Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” ― Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell tags: humor, love, metaphor, simpsons 413 likes Like “A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox tags: acceptance, flowers, gardening, love, weeds 412 likes Like “I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo tags: love, nora, nora-grey, patch-cipriano 408 likes Like “One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass.” ― Maureen Medved, The Tracey Fragments tags: boy, love, lust 392 likes Like “Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!” ― Staness Jonekos tags: inspirational, inspirational-love, love, women 389 likes Like “She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.” ― William Faulkner, The Town tags: accepting-love, love 380 likes Like “You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go tags: love 378 likes Like “To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet tags: love, philosophy, poetry 378 likes Like “I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest tags: humor, life, love, marriage 373 likes Like “There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.” ― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren tags: love 372 likes Like “And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.” ― Albert Camus, The Plague tags: love 369 likes Like “Love is—a shade of what I feel.” ― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn tags: khalid, love 368 likes Like “When you know my love, my love will warm you.” ― Ruby Dee tags: amity, love 366 likes Like “I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially in love with your sheets." "That the only thing you're in love with?" "Nope. Your mattress, too." Some smile crept into Patch's eyes. "My bed's an open invitation.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence tags: humor, love, patch-and-nora 364 likes Like “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy tags: apathy, breakup, caring, contempt, desire, extreme, hate, hot, love, lukewarm, passion, relationships,romance, scorn, uncaring 361 likes Like “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead tags: accountability, authenticity, belonging, courage, creativity, empathy, joy, love, meaning, purpose,spirituality, vulnerability 358 likes Like “In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.” ― John Williams, Stoner tags: growth, love 354 likes Like “Brod's life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release... So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love--loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer tags: love 354 likes Like “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does” ― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives “If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.” ― J.M. Barrie tags: love 588 likes Like “I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.” ― Tana French, Faithful Place tags: beauty, cruelty, independence, love, men, strength, survival, women 501 likes Like “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. tags: love 469 likes Like “Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!” ― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart tags: breakup, broken, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, dating, faith, healing,heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, hope, hurt, hurt-feelings, hurting, hurting-heart, inspirational, life, life-lessons, love, romance 445 likes Like “Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: love 444 likes Like “But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.” ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things tags: emptiness, forbidden, grief, happiness, inspirational, laws, love, quietness, sadness 438 likes Like “The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.” ― Rita Mae Brown tags: gay, lesbian, lgbt, love, queer 434 likes Like “Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince tags: bridget, love, love-hurts 425 likes Like “Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.” ― Mother Teresa tags: charity, christian-behavior, compassion, helping-others, love, paraphrased, service 424 likes Like “Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?” ― Ernesto Che Guevara tags: inspirational, love, motivation, passion 410 likes Like “I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo tags: hurt, love, nora, patch 409 likes Like “Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice tags: affection, blindness, denial, folly, love, refusal, romance, vanity 406 likes Like “I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی tags: love, lovers 401 likes Like “I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care tags: love, obsession 387 likes Like “The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care” ― Emily Dickinson tags: love 384 likes Like “Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona, Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..." "Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart, Seized him with my beautiful form That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me. Love, which pardons no beloved from loving, took me so strongly with delight in him That, as you see, it still abandons me not...” ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno: A New Verse Translation tags: italian, italy, love, medieval-literature, poetry 380 likes Like “Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,” she replied at once. “Not gonna happen!” I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That’s when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.” ― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave tags: funny, love, vampire 376 likes Like “The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.” ― Bill Hicks tags: atheism, belief, damnation, death, eternal-suffering, forgiving, hell, humor, infinite-love, lord, love,message, options, question, suffering 374 likes Like “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj tags: life, love, wisdom 373 likes Like “Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.” ― Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl tags: love, unrequited-love 366 likes Like “He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted” ― Edwin Markham tags: friend, heretic, love, poem, rebel, wit 357 likes Like “6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. Blurred out lines from hangovers to coffee Another vagabond lost to love. 4am alone and on my way. These are my finest moments. I scrub my skin to rid me from you and I still don’t know why I cried. It was just something in the way you took my heart and rearranged my insides and I couldn’t recognise the emptiness you left me with when you were done. Maybe you thought my insides would fit better this way, look better this way, to you and us and all the rest. But then you must have changed your mind or made a wrong because why did you leave? 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, and I still don’t know which month it was then or what day it is now. I replace cafés with crowded bars and empty roads with broken bottles and this town is healing me slowly but still not slow or fast enough because there’s no right way to do this. There is no right way to do this. There is no right way to do this.” ― Charlotte Eriksson tags: alone, berlin, break-up, breakup, broken-hearted, city, coffee, growing-up, hang-over, leaving, left,london, love, moving, moving-on, night, poetry, prose, sad, the-glass-child, walking, wandering 351 likes Like “Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.” ― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye tags: hatred, love 345 likes Like “It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people say just because they feel like it. A privilege that is earned. They say you have to earn the right to be loved; no, love is unconditional, if you love someone, they don't have to earn it. But. The right to tell someone that you love them? That has to be earned. You have to earn the right to be believed.” ― C. JoyBell C. tags: inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, love, real-love, unconditional-love 342 likes Like “Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.” ― Ellen Hopkins tags: fate, happiness, happy-endings, love 340 likes Like “I don't want to know about love.' 'But you should, my child. You need to know about love. The things people will do for love. All truths come down to love, do they not? One way or another, they do. See, there is a difference between love and need. Sometimes, what you feel is immediate and without rhyme or reason.' She sat up a little straighter. 'Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn’t need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it’s right or wrong.” ― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood tags: love 339 likes Like “It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.” ― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver tags: heartbreak, love, truth 338 likes Like “I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)” ― Eve Ensler, I am an Emotional Creature tags: aging, being-alive, being-different, difference, intensity, love, loving, obedience, obeying, people-pleasing, pleasing-others, respect, respecting, wisdom 337 likes Like “Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.” ― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories tags: life, love 337 likes Like “He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was…I wanted the wolf to devour me.” ― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse “A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.” ― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo tags: love 656 likes Like “A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?” ― Margaret Atwood tags: love, poetry, truth 517 likes Like “...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.” ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You tags: friendship-and-love, heartbreak, life, love 482 likes Like “Whatever happened to the dragon?" I mustered my primmest tone. "He has a name, you know." Adrian pulled back and gave me a curious look. "I didn't know, actually. What'd you decide on?" "Hopper." When Adrian laughed, I added, "Best rabbit ever. He'd be proud to know his name is being passed on." "Yes, I'm sure he would. Did you name the Mustang too?" "I think you mean the Ivashkinator." He stared at me in wonder. "I told you I loved you, right? "Yes," I assured him. "Many times.” ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell tags: adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, cute, funny, humour, love, richelle-mead, romance, romantic, sydney-sage,sydrian, the-indigo-spell 455 likes Like “You have my whole heart. You always did.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road tags: faithfulness, fidelity, love 438 likes Like “Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” ― Joseph Fort Newton tags: bigotry, bridges, compassion, culture, culture-wars, cultures, empathy, hate, hatred, inspirational,intolerance, love, men, misattributed, misattributed-to-isaac-newton, racism, separation, sympathy,tolerance, understanding, walls 416 likes Like “I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath.” ― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Knight tags: love 399 likes Like “I'll understand if you don't want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and hoped for. You are much, much more. Please know that I didn't think I was mean-minded. But I realize I am. I don't want you to put your arms around me and say it's all right, that you forgive me. I want you to be sure that you do, and my love for you will last as long as I live. I can see no lightness, no humour, no joke to make. I just hope that we will be able to go back to when we had laughter, and the world was coloured, not black and white and grey. I am so sorry for hurting you. I could inflict all kinds of pain on myself, but it would not take back any I gave to you. - David Power” ― Maeve Binchy, Echoes tags: forgiveness, love, romance, sorry 370 likes Like “I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.” ― Robert Frost, Birches tags: brevity, love, nature, time, youth 366 likes Like “I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm tags: alina, feels, love, mal 358 likes Like “She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.” ― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove tags: books, conversation, life, love, sharing, smile, soulmate, talking, true-love 357 likes Like “Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.” ― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd tags: love 356 likes Like “Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.” ― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory tags: hopelessness, inspirational, life, love 348 likes Like “Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding." “Why are they all high-calorie foods?” ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell tags: adrian-ivashkov, bloodlines, couple, cute, love, nicknames, richelle-mead, sydney-sage, sydrian, the-indigo-spell 347 likes Like “I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.” ― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence tags: love, romance 347 likes Like “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience tags: circumstance, distance, endure, inspirational, long-distance-love, love, power, relationships, soul-mates, true-love 345 likes Like “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 344 likes Like “I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.” ― Hayao Miyazaki tags: friendship, love, romance 344 likes Like “That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke tags: loneliness, love 343 likes Like “Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.” ― Lauren Oliver, Requiem tags: choices, delirium, freedom, love 343 likes Like “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly tags: adventure, adventures, adventures-in-love, catholic-author, discovery, experiences, first-love, life, life-changing, life-experience, life-lesson, love, romance, romantic, self-discovery, true-love 342 likes Like “There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate.” ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces tags: heart, love, people, soul 338 likes Like “And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.” ― Taylor Swift tags: heartbreak, love, realtionship 336 likes Like “Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.” ― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries tags: cities, cities-and-countries, city, enmity, glory, love, novel-quote, personalities, rejection, roman-payne,travel, traveler, travelling, urban, voyage 336 likes Like “They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.” ― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone tags: love, sweet 333 likes Like “You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty.” ― Kelly White tags: inspirational, love, music 332 likes Like “You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park tags: friendship, hugs, love, missing, missing-someone, relationships 329 likes Like “I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....) He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you.” ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent tags: beatrice-prior, family, four, insurgent, love, tobias-and-tris, tobias-eaton, veronica-roth 329 likes Like “But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?” ― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project “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 “One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass tags: breaking-up, breakups, dating, finding-yourself, fresh-starts, letting-go, love, loving-yourself, moving-on, new-beginnings, not-settling, positive-thinking, relationships, self-improvement, the-end, the-single-woman 478 likes Like “my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw” ― Charles Bukowski tags: depression, facade, love, motherhood, pain 473 likes Like “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free tags: appreciation, gratitude, life, love, morning, seize-the-day, success 465 likes Like “I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.” ― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him tags: hurt, love, romance, teen, ya 413 likes Like “God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one” ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی, The Essential Rumi tags: confusion, faith, inspirational, love 407 likes Like “This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.” ― Colleen Hoover, Slammed tags: falling-in-love, flaws, love 406 likes Like “If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile tags: beauty, blind, blindness, contemplation, inner-beauty, love, relationship, seeing, shallowness, thought-provoking, true-love, unconditional-love 392 likes Like “Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. [Verse 223]” ― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada tags: anger, generosity, goodness, inspirational, kindness, knowledge, love, truth, wisdom 383 likes Like “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 373 likes Like “The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.” ― Tammara Webber, Easy tags: hurt, letting-go, love 372 likes Like “Love me like you'll never see me again.” ― Alicia Keys tags: love, proposition 355 likes Like “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 355 likes Like “And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights tags: emily-bronte, love, pain, wuthering-heights 354 likes Like “I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger tags: grief, linger, loss, love, pain, separation, shiver 353 likes Like “Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.” ― Ally Condie, Crossed tags: beauty, love 352 likes Like “When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.” ― Mark Twain, Notebook tags: love, romantic-advice 349 likes Like “He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.” ― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell tags: adrian-ivashkov, flaws, love, realizations, sydney-sage 347 likes Like “If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.” ― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War tags: love, music, power-of-music 344 likes Like “Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.” ― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender “She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.” ― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao tags: loss, love 337 likes Like “If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free tags: inspirational, life, love, relationship, self-knowledge, truth 335 likes Like “He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' 'Ah, no,' said the King. 'It's only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.” ― Heather Dixon, Entwined tags: humor, love 333 likes Like “Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.” ― Charlie Chaplin tags: love 328 likes Like “People do the damndest things when they’re in love.” ― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood tags: love 325 likes Like “I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words tags: breaking-up, breakup, breakups, compromise, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, love, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, respect, respectable, respected,respectful, respecting, respecting-others, respecting-yourself, self-respect, wisdom, wisdom-quotes 323 likes Like “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 322 likes Like “Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.” ― Kristin Cashore, Fire tags: brigan, courage, feeling, fire, love, strength 321 likes Like “Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. ” ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha tags: love 319 likes Like “Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
” ― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91. “What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.” ― Jeanette Winterson tags: contradiction, heart, love 616 likes Like “Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.” ― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds tags: lee, liam, love, ruby 583 likes Like “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” ― James Baldwin “And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.” ― Jack Kerouac “Before I fell in love with words, with setting skies and singing birds— it was you I fell in love with first.” ― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure “Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.” ― Jessica Howell “All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.” ― Kirsten Miller, The Eternal Ones “You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.” ― Nina LaCour, Hold Still “The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.” ― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary “What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild “She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida “Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.” ― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out “Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her...long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart. Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Percy and Annabeth were a perfect example of why. You should have to make someone`s heart whole; that was a much better test.” ― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus tags: annabeth, aphrodite, awww, love, percabeth, percy-jackson, piper-mclean 353 likes Like “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.” ― Sigmund Freud tags: change, life, love, personality 351 likes Like “Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels tags: jace-wayland, love 347 likes Like “What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.” ― Joseph Roux tags: friendship, love 346 likes Like “Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.” ― Paulo Coelho tags: love 336 likes Like “If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.” ― Nicole Krauss “We are asleep until we fall in Love!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love” ― Clive Barker Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche