Quotes about love
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“But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: The Shadow Queen

“… and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Thinking

“I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Hate, Envy

“Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Personality

“Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.”

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor book Incredibly Alice

Source: Incredibly Alice

“It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Sadness, Thinking, Tree

“A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Knowledge, Change, Time, Personality

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Making love, Feeling, Learning

“By all the gods, I desire you, but you must know that you have my love. It's given, sieva. Wholly entrusted to you. Have a care with it.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Source: Dead of Winter

God

“I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

People

“Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Goodbye

“Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”

Dawn Powell (1896–1965) American writer

Beauty

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Like Life

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Imagination

“I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love could end or worst of all, love was not powerful enough to change a life.”

Mona Simpson (1957) American novelist

Life, Hate, People, Memory

“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Time

“Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.”

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress

Source: Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

“You don't get to decide," she said, "where I go, or when."
"I know." His voice was ragged. "I've always known that about you. I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“I must confess. Of all of the brotherhood, he was the one I loved first and he remains the one I love the most. For me, he is just the… one.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist

People, Thinking, Sense

“That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace.
The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?"
"Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Death, Loyalty

“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Life, Beauty, Heart

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Wisdom, Men, God, Deep

“… and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Drawing

“What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

Life, Men, Horse

“… you are loved because I love you.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: How to Fall in Love

“Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Heat

Life, People

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Feeling, Freedom, Water

“On the other side of pain, there is still love.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Pain

“I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand, for there can’t be one without the other, but nonetheless I find myself wondering whether the trade-off is fair.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Ira Levinson, Chapter 17, p. 237
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)
Context: My marriage brought great happiness into my life, but lately there's been nothing but sadness. I understand that love and tragedy go hand in hand, for there can't be one without the other, but nonetheless I find myself wondering whether the tradeoff is fair. A man should die as he had lived, I think; in his final moments, he should be surrounded and comforted by those he's always loved.

Understanding