“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”

“I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

“You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“Love finds you when you start feeling incomplete in life. Love finds the good in you despite having millions of flaws in you. Love holds your hand and removes the emptiness of your life and you start loving yourself.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

“Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”

Marilyn Hacker (1942) American writer

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

Orhan Pamuk book Snow

“We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.”

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement