Famous Quotes

"Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love."

"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."

"I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.
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"I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep."

"I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever."

"You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.' I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. 'I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me.' I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. 'That's what makes you my favorite.' He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. 'Every wicked bit of you."

"Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing to slay dragons for the woman who offers it. Take that draught of love from me and I will shrivel to dust. To take it from a man dying of thirst and give it to another whilst he watches is a cruelty I never thought you capable of."

"Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud."

"Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."

"But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever"

"Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water."

"Soul meets soul on lovers lips."

"Love is not finding someone to live with. It's finding someone you can't live without."

"It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone."

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

"Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love"

"But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?"

"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."

"But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed."

"What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it."

"She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day."

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"