What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?- Stephen Chbosky
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.- Charlotte Brontë
A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both.- Alessandra Torre
The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.- Shannon Alder
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.- Suzanne Collins
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.- Maya Angelou
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.- Jonathan Safran Foer
You think I'm prettyWithout any make-up onYou think I'm funnyWhen I tell the puch line wrongI know you get meSo I'll let my walls come down, down- Katy Perry
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.- George Eliot
I realized I'm in love. It's always been right in front of me.- Richelle Mead
Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?- Susan Fletcher
Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.- Banana Yoshimoto
sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!- Sophie Kinsella
...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.- Alice Hoffman
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.- Ellen Hopkins
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.- Dalai Lama XIV
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.- Francois Sagan
This desire to govern a woman'it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes'really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.- E.M. Forster
There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.- Amit Ray
What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there."It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.- Cassandra Clare
Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.- Cassandra Clare
Before I fellin love with words,with setting skies and singing birds'it was you I fellin love with first.- Lang Leav
Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.- Francine Rivers
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.- Charles H. Spurgeon
Love is on every side, and no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.- Rick Riordan
As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.- Pythagoras
When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you.- Nicholas Sparks
Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.- Sarah Dessen
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.- Victor Hugo
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.- Dr. Asa Don Brown
A fit, healthy body'that is the best fashion statement- Jess C Scott
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)- Eve Ensler
I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.Maybe we're from the same star.- Emery Allen
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.- Maggie Stiefvater
Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.- Nicholas Sparks
When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.- Caitlyn Siehl
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.- Shannon L. Alder
Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.- Nicholas Sparks
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.- Martha Gellhorn
I've never wanted more, until I met you.- E.L. James
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.- Jodi Picoult
