Quotes about love
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“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

People, Family, Chance, Time

“It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Sense, Chance

“All is love… All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.”

Brian L. Weiss

Understanding, Time, Patience

“Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

Decision

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

Heart

“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep”

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

General sources Source: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621 Context: The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Deep, Good Night

“HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IV, 20
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

Truth, Law, Beauty, Perfection

“Love turns work into rest.”

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

“Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

God, Children, Family

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

“The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Girl, Boy, Dead

“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Truth, World, Sense, Help

“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Imagination, Learning

“It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.”

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

Source: Downtown Owl

Feeling

“Boo: "Go talk to her."

Callum: "About what?"

Boo: "Anything."

Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"

Boo: "I do that."

Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

“I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Will-"
"I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and when you're this close to me, I forget who you are. I forget you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.
Source: Clockwork Princess

Thinking, Personality, Forgetting

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Color, Feeling

“(a womanist)

3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”

Alice Walker book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Food, Music, Dance

“I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

Source: The Best of Me

People, Hurt

“True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Affliction

Source: Affliction

Personality

“Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

World, Peace

“Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Life, Time, Wedding

“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”

Sheri Reynolds book The Rapture of Canaan

Source: The Rapture of Canaan

Heart

“Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

“Every love story is a ghost story.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King (2011)

“She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

Memory

“In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.”

Mike Gayle (1970) British author

Source: His 'N' Hers

“Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

World

“Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Game

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Kiss, Personality

“The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

Problem

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: The Dead of Night

Life, Happiness, Books, Feeling

“The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Fear

“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Decision, Freedom, Future

“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Very Valentine

“There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

Life, Thinking

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

World, Understanding, Personality

“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

People, Family, Study, Parting

“She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.”

LaVyrle Spencer (1943) American writer

Source: Hummingbird

Life

“… lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Girl, Personality

“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Fear, Faith, Revenge, Drawing

“Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don't love to be loved, we love to love”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

love

“Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.”

Ayelet Waldman book Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Source: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Marriage, Disappointment

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

Myrnin.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Money, People

“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Women, Sadness, Personality

“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

People

“Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Selfishness

“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

“When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Food, Learning, Country

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

World

“All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
An emptiness above--

Know that you aren't alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all your years.”

Vikram Seth (1952) Indian writer

World, Tear, Sleep, Night

“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

Learning, Heart

“I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Beauty, Madness

“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Men

“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)

Faith, Loyalty

“I must have loved you a lot.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

Men, Girl, Strong

“From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

"Dedicatory Ode", stanza 22
Verses (1910)

Home, Laughter

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“I love you.""Sorry… what did you…? The planes noise was…”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 17

“You see how it is with us? You can't fight it any more than I can. You've tried; you've done everything you can to kill it. But you can't kill my love for you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Chase

Fight

“She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Variant: Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Lovers

“Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.”

Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Family, Sleep, Freedom, Science

“You're not sick you're just in love.”

Irving Berlin (1888–1989) American composer

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Sleep

“You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Change

“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 40.

“Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

The Argument
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

Hate

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

Source: Forever Odd

Marriage, Faith, Sense

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Variant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

Deep, Relationship, Cute, Heart Touching

“Jace is in love with the idea of dying,” said Isabelle.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Idea