“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
-Sarah Dessen
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
“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
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
-Pablo Neruda
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
-Sarah Dessen
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
-Paulo Coelho
“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
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
-Robert Frost
“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
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
-Paulo Coelho
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
-Pablo Neruda
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
-Paul McCartney
“Love conquers all,” Aphrodite promised. “Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?”
“Didn’t they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?”
“Pfft. That’s not the point. Follow your heart.”
-Rick Riordan
“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.”
“Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
-Rick Riordan
“Do you think I’m pretty?
I think you’re beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”
-Richelle Mead
“When love is not madness it is not love.”
-Pedro Calderón de la Barca
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
-Robert Frost
“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
“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 youIf 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
“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It’s not overrated. There’s a reason for all those songs.”
-Sarah Dessen
“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
-Scott Adams
“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
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
-Pablo Neruda
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
-Pablo Neruda
“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
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
-Sarah Dessen
“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
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
-Sophocles
“Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
-Rainbow Rowell
