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Love Quotes


"My heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me..."



"I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me."


"I hate everything about you that you do and love everything you don't."


"Love is almost never simple."


"I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore."


"I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't."


"She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart."


"I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!"


"There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love."


"Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We wanted to believe that it could give word to my inchoate pain and rages; that it could enable Muriel to face the world and get a job; that it could free our writings, cure racism, end homophobia and adolescent acne."


"I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing."


"The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love."



"Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?"


"Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs."


"They're crystal blue, a shade that shouldn't exist on the human body, I shade I immediately crave, a shade that makes my heart beat a little bit faster--almost as if I recognize it. I want to steal it, paint it, throw it into every room I ever decorate. It's the most perfect blue I've ever seen. Even from this distance his eyes are simply remarkable."


"Love is the soul's symphony."


"The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV]."


"True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love."


"You don't have to say I love you to say I love you."


"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."


"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."


"Put me down."Nope. He held her snuggled to his bare chest, tipping her up so he could rub his cheek against hers. "I like carrying you."


"I write our names on the page.What of it, if the paper will be burned?I write our names in the sand.What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted,but what of it?I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant."


"Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature - an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control."


"The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love."



"Love is the unfathomable ground that is hidden in darkness, but the resolution is the triumphant victor who, like Orpheus, fetches the infatuation of falling in love to the light of day, for the resolution is the true form of love, the true explanation and transfiguration."


"I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that."


"I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly."


"When I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine..."
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