love

"I make love like I make coffins—with my bare hands, alone in my garage. On sale through Thursday—Buy One Funeral, Get A Second One Free!"

"...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before."

"In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again."

"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."

"And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders."

"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

"I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality."

"You are terrifying and strange and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love."

"You can’t put a price tag on love. But if you could, I’d wait for it to go on sale."

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

"Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for."

"The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk."

"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

"He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone...."

"Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love."

"And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."

"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."

"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."

"You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'"