#adoration

"I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles."

"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don’t have it, you cant give it."

"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."

"There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?"

"I went out to eat on a restaurant’s opening night. It was packed! I guess people heard I’d be dining there and came to adore me."

"What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst."

"Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him."

"Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?"

"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."

"We all romanticize the people we adore."

"She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes..."

"My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you."

"When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart."

"You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever."

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear."