“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
-John Green
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
-Lao Tzu
“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
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
-Jodi Picoult
“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
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
-Jess C. Scott
“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.”
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
-J.M. Barrie
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
-Jane Austen
“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
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
-John Green
“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
“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
“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
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
-John Green
“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
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
-Jalaluddin Rumi
“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 Rumi
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
-Joan Crawford
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
-Haruki Murakami
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
-Kahlil Gibran
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
-Lauren Oliver
“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
“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
“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
“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.”
-Jalaluddin Rumi
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
-Jimi Hendrix
“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
“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
“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
“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
-Jon Krakauer
“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 Rumi
“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
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“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
“Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
-Lemony Snicket
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“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
“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
“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
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
-Kahlil Gibran
“Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you.”
-Lauren Conrad
“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 Rumi
“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
-Kiera Cass
“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
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
“We are who we are, beÂcause of those we choose to love and beÂcause of those who love us.”
-Kate Mosse
