"To say I love you one must know first how to say the I."

    • Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, its tides and its depths; it has its pearls too."

    • Vincent van Gogh

"When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He just is, I just am, and we just are."

    • Lang Leav, He and I *

"I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory."

    • Lemony Snicket, Beatrice Letters

"She mad but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."

    • Charles Bukowski

"Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss, but every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and once you do, nothing else with ever compare."

    • Flipped

"We are but lovers, we are the last of our kind. And if we let our hearts move outward, we will never die."

    • unknown

"Come to me in my dreams, and then by day I shall be well again..."

    • Matthew Arnold

"Why do we close our eyes when we pray? When we cry? When we dream? Or when we kiss? Because we know that the most beautiful things in life are not seen, but felt by heart."

    • unknown

"We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps."

    • Michael Ondaatje

"Don't choose to love the most beautiful girl in the world. Choose to love the one who makes your world the most beautiful."

"This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take it from you. If only you will accept yourself. Reclaim your body—your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It’s all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back."

    • Jean Hegland

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

    • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"People should fall in love with their eyes closed."

    • Andy Warhol

"I just want your hand to reach across and find mine every single night."

"Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."

    • Sigmund Freud

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

    • Ingrid Bergman

"The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching search-lights."

    • Edith Wharton, The Backward Glance

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

    • Eleanor Roosevelt

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."

    • Judy Garland

"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."

    • e. e. cummings

"I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn’t be you."

    • Jeffrey Eugenide

"Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world."

    • Rumi

"Although I may try to describe Love, when I experience it, I am speechless."

    • Rumi

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

    • F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

    • Oscar Wilde

"Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary."

    • Oscar Wilde

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

    • Aristotle

"I understood the word swoon. It felt that way, like sweep and moon and woo, all those words smashed together in one word that stood for that feeling, right then."

    • Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied *

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."

    • Sam Keen

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

    • Robert Frost

"Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits."

    • Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

    • Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

    • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

    • John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"When I saw you, I fell in love and you smiled because you knew."

    • Arrigo Boito *

"Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter."

    • Lemony Snicket

"I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close."

    • Jeanette Winterson

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing."

    • 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV

"I don't just want you heart. I want your flesh, your skin and blood and bones, your voice, your thoughts, your pulse and most of all your fingerprints, everywhere."

"We kiss. Though it is the same as before, it isn't the same at all. It is more, stronger, weaker, deeper, quieter, louder. It is more, vulnerable, impenetrable, fragile, secure, unprotected, completely protected. It is more, open, deeper, fuller, simpler, true. It is more."

"There's such an empty space when you're gone."

"I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder."

    • Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will."

"...love might look like a shore but turn out to be a desert island, where you roamed alone, talking to yourself, trying to crack open coconuts with your shoe. So thirsty you drank the salt water. So hungry you ate the sand."

    • Leah Stewart, A History of Us

"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."

    • Charles Bukowski

"The sun is 91 million miles away; not too far, not too close. Be like that."

    • Sarah Gorham, Detach

"You have been the last dream of my soul."

    • Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

    • Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

just this. all of it.

aug 17 2011 ∞
apr 12 2014 +