love

"Everything is clearer when you're in love."

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."

"The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him."

"So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here"

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"True love is born from understanding."

"You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one."

"I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion."

"My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You didn't know it then-you know it now."

"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."

"Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give."

"I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one."

"It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices."

"When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries."

"Love is like a door knob that I’ve mistaken for a shower handle, and I’m trying to turn up the heat on our relationship, but the handle won’t turn and I’ve got shampoo in my eyes and my wetsuit is dry and I started crying just as the zookeeper asked me to leave."

"I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love."

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."