Famous Quotes

"Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people."

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

"I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops."

"It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to."

"Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage."

"It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love."

"Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out."

"The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second."

"But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

"Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?"

"Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed."

"Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl."

"Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience"

"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!"

"It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride."

"It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary."

"Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone."

"Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them."

"And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you."

"Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot."

"A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night"

"With you, intimacy colours my voice.even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'."