Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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.
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.
I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am tonight
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
Just because love don’t look the way you think it should, don’t mean you don’t have it.
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.
He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.
She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
Everyone’s a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore.
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
Actually, you said Love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s
terrifying. No one
will ever want to sleep with you.
It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.
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.
Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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
That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget.
What if love wasn’t the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?
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.
You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I’ll never really see. You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.
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.
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.
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.
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.
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
It’s so much easier to convince yourself you’re madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.
This dangerous girl. This captivating beauty.
This destroyer of worlds and creator of wonder.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.
If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it.
You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.
How can you?
He has it.
How could I be sleeping with this particular man…. Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight.
Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
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.
She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.
This isn’t a romance. You’re not a damsel in distress and I’m not the handsome prince come to save you.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That’s what I want
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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.
Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments–because they’re willing to brave the shadows with you–and in your greatest moments–because they’re not afraid to let you shine.
To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,’ Juliette whispered.
‘In this life and the next,’ Roma returned, ‘for however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
[A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.