Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.- Niccolò Machiavelli
They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.- Leigh Bardugo
Love was the most savage monster of all.- Rick Riordan
We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind.- Katie McGarry
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.- Dodie Smith
We are made of all those who have built and broken us.- Atticus Poetry
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."(Sonnet 116)- William Shakespeare
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...- Emma Thompson
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.- E.E. Cummings
Love fades. Mine has.- Richelle Mead
I love you, even if there isn't any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.- Zelda Fitzgerald
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.- Laurie Notaro
In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.- Kaori Yuki
Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.- Charlotte Eriksson
Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one- E.L. James
The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.- Joshua Harris
And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not, cannot, be our priority.""She is my priority!" Will shouted.- Cassandra Clare
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.- Jane Austen
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.- Mary Oliver
'¦if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.- Plato
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.- Deb Caletti
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!- C. JoyBell C.
I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?- Audrey Niffenegger
To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.- Santosh Kalwar
Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.- Anne Sexton
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.- William Goldman
Love me like you'll never see me again.- Alicia Keys
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
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.- David Nicholls
You can obsess and obsess over how things ended'what you did wrong or could have done differently'but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?- Jess Rothenberg
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.- Nicholas Sparks
No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.- Paulo Coelho
Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.- Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary.- Jason Mraz
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
Ang great love mo, hindi mo makakatuluyan. Ang makakatuluyan mo ay yung correct love.- Ricky Lee
What you are is a fucking tragedy, Simon Snow. You literally couldn't be a bigger mess."He tries to kiss me, but I pull back- "And you like that?""I love it." He says"Why?""Because we match.- Rainbow Rowell
'I don't want to lose you'Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?- Alexandra Bracken
Love, and you shall be loved.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.- Richelle Mead
Find what you love and let it kill you.- Charles Bukowski
There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.- Gillian Flynn
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.- Sherman Alexie
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?- Elizabeth Gilbert
