“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Source: Selected Poems
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Source: Selected Poems
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
Source: Delta of Venus
“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
As quoted in Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939) by George Palmer Putnam, p. 83
Cited as Amelia Earhart, "My Husband," Redbook magazine (Sept. 1933) in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989), p. 101.
“The future was not what it used to be.”
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)
“Everything happens for me, not to me.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11