If I know what love is, it is because of you.- Hermann Hesse
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.- H.L. Mencken
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.- Henry Van Dyke
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.- Madeline Miller
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.- Anne Michaels
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.- Aimee Carter
But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'€™ll be in love with tomorrow.- Gayle Forman
The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.- Anonymous
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.- Virginia Woolf
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.- John Green
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw- Charles Bukowski
In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied "I love you back" and not "I love your back" before you continue the conversation.- Lemony Snicket
Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?''Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.- Patricia Highsmith
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.- Sarah Orne Jewett
But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.- Veronica Roth
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.- Maggie Stiefvater
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.- Leo Tolstoy
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.- Bruce Lee
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.- bell hooks
And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.- Paul McCartney
Love is a serious mental disease.- Plato
He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.- Ann Brashares
I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.- Michael Morpurgo
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.- Jonathan Safran Foer
In love there are two things - bodies and words. - Joyce Carol Oates
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
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}- Leo Tolstoy
If you'€™re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.- Lauren Oliver
I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.- David Levithan
The course of true love never did run smooth.- William Shakespeare
For some people, '€œthe point of no return'€ begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others'€™ existence.- C. JoyBell C.
Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear'€” even as you save something to love...- Margaret Mitchell
My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.- Dora J. Arod
'€¦There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover'€™s whisper, irresistible'€”magic to make the sanest man go mad.- Homer
Don'€™t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.- Dr Roopleen
Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.- Tiffanie DeBartolo