love

"Being a waiter is a waste of time, because think of all that waiting. But it’s better than loving someone who doesn’t love you back, because if you’re going to wait around, you might as well get paid for it."

"I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. The one who gives you four arms, four legs, four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. There's only one of those, so what are all the other things for? Like dating?"

"Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?"

"People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer."

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."

"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."

"You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that."

"They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. He opened his eyes as he kissed the star. Her sky-blue eyes stared back into his, and in her eyes he could see no parting from her."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

"I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws."

"As the ice melted, we fell in love—slowly. I just wish the ice were in two glasses of vodka, and not surrounding our bodies."

"Please,"he says. "I'm begging you to stop."I still. "I can't stomach your pain,"he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please,"he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong.""I'm sorry-""Don't be sorry, either,"he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more."

"One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass."

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

"Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside."

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will"

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."

"One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it."