Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.- J.R. Ward
Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.- Nicola Yoon
When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.- Rumi Jalalu'l-Din
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything- Katharine Hepburn
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.- William Butler Yeats
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.- Paulo Coelho
Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.- Shannon L. Alder
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight- Lana Del Rey
As your lover describes you, so you are.- Jeanette Winterson
He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me.- Coco J. Ginger
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.- Chuck Palahniuk
You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.- Maggie Stiefvater
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.- Jonathan Tropper
Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.- Ernest Hemingway
Kids chase the love that eludes them.- Mitch Albom
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.- Adolf Hitler
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.- Dali Lama
It'€™s not so much the journey that'€™s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way- Jeremy Aldana
I don't think you can define love.- Harry Styles
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.- Martin Luther King Jr.
Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why.- Lang Leav
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.- Nick Hornby
For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.- Haruki Murakami
You say you'€™re sure? Sure that you'€™re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? - Kazuo Ishiguro
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.- Marcel Proust
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.- Oscar Wilde
And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.- Cassandra Clare
I love you like a fat kid loves cake!- Scott Adams
You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.- Boris Pasternak
I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.- Jeaniene Frost
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.- Hermann Hesse
When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.- Ian McEwan
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now.- Oscar Wilde
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?- Cassandra Clare
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.- Anna Louise Strong
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'€™ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.- Jess C Scott
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.- Robert Goolrick
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.- Khalil Gibran
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.- Cornelia Funke
I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.- Sarah Addison Allen