Famous Quotes

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

~ Harriet Evans

Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on.

~ Rick Riordan

What I was trying to say,” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word for you that means enough, because you’re everything to me.

~ Veronica Rossi

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do forlove.Myrnin.

~ Rachel Caine

Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.

~ Colleen Houck

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

~ John Mayer

I love Jere more than anybody. He’s my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too.” His voice broke.“Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.

~ Jenny Han

It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Right then, I wanted to go back in time and relive every moment with him. One more secret smile, one more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. He’d come into my life too late, and now was leaving too soon. I remembered him telling me he’d give up everything for me. He already had.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

~ Pearl Cleage

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

~ Miguel Ruiz

... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough to me. I taste her and realize I have been starving. I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this.I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.

~ Jodi Picoult

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

~ Haruki Murakami

... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

~ Leonard Cohen

Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.

~ Marie Lu

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

~ Stephen King

Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart.

~ Yolanda Joe

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.

~ Kirstie Alley

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

~ Margaret Atwood

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.

~ Priya Ardis

The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isn’t wrong, when you know exactly how much he’s fought those feelings. People can’t control matters of the heart, Warren. They can only control their actions, which is exactly what Ridge did. He lost control once for ten seconds, but after that, every single time temptation reared its ugly head, he walked in the other direction. The only thing Ridge has done wrong is fail to delete his messages, because by doing so, he failed to protect Maggie. He failed to protect her from the harsh truth that people don’t get to choose who they fall in love with. They only get to choose who they stay in love with.” I look up at the ceiling and blink back tears. “He was choosing to stay in love with her, Warren. Why can’t she see that? This will kill him so much more than it’s killing her.

~ Colleen Hoover

When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call being ‘in love.’ Unfortunately, once they expect this feeling to come from another person, they cut themselves off from the energy in the universe and begin to rely even more on the energy from each other--only now there doesn’t seem to be enough and so they stop giving each other energy and fall back into their dramas in an attempt to control each other and force the other’s energy their way.

~ James Redfield

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.

~ Lemony Snicket

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

~ Deb Caletti

Time has no meaning,Love will endure..

~ Jude Deveraux

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

~ Victor Hugo

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?

~ Matthew Quick

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

~ Sarah Dessen

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

When you want something this badly, you don't just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely can't fight anymore.

~ Gail Mchugh

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

~ Franny Billingsley