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Love Quotes


"Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation."


"Don't wait for a perfect husband, love a man endlessly to make him perfect."



"But it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it."


"You can love only when you are overflowing with joy, not when you are empty and needy."


"I'll love you forever, even when I can't."


"Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret."



"We are born ready to love and be loved. It is our birthright."


"We wait too long to tell the people we love that they are the very reason that we exist. We assume that our wife, child, other family members, and friends understand our love and affection. We assume that people we care about understand our enigmatic idiosyncrasies and willingly accept the shrouded reasons behind our demonstrable oddities. We assume that other people sense that we struggle valiantly in our blackened landscape. We presume that other people comprehend our struggle to glean meaning amongst the ashes spewed from the absurd circumstances that we operate. Sometimes we need to stop and tell the tenderhearted persons whom we care about that we love them and explain that our awkward strangeness is not a rejection of them."


"Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry."


"Your love must not be a dependency; it must be your joy."


"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."



"She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?"


"[As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same."


"If you're smart, you care. And if you care, you love."


"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."


"Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze.She loosed a shuddering breath, and a small, whimpering noise came out of her - a sob. And then she was sprinting down the alley, flying as though the winds themselves pushed at her heels.She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. Nesryn made to approach, but Aedion stopped her with a hand on her arm.Aelin was laughing as she cried, and the male was just holding her, his hooded head buried in her neck. As if he were breathing her in."Who is that?" Nesryn asked.Aedion smiled. "Rowan."


"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea."


"And the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need."


"I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved."


"But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your brread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words."


"So you will meet many 'someones' who will give a new definition to your name. And you can not build walls, must not close the door and please don't hide,because if you ask me about hurt and loveI will say love. Love because the hurt will come and go no matter what, but only love makes it worth while. Only love can cure it. Don't be scared. Go. Love."



"My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all."


"Break open your heart so that I may enter it."



"He glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered."


"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."


"I have yet to figure out a better way to combat hate than to love harder."


"You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record."


"There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together."
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