#love

"Vodka in the shape of a human body would be an excellent dancing partner. I'm a bring my own chaser kind of lover."

"They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man."

"I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there’s a chance in hell you might want it back."

"Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?""Not always."I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason."Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first."

"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."

"Sometimes, remembering hurts too much."

"I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."

"Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God."

"I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love."

"For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary"

"Love wins, love always wins."

"Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground."

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

"The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples..."

"How could I remain unyielding? His words penetrated the flimsy barriers I’d set up around my heart. I’d meant to set up a barbed wire fence, but the barbs ended up being covered with marshmallows. He slipped through my defenses easily. He touched his forehead to my hand, and my marshmallow heart melted."

"And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross."

"Seduction [10w] Seduction comes from our innate instincts for hunting and killing."

"A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?"

"Rice-a-Roni: The San Francisco treat... ...the other treat, of course, being anal penetration."

"I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me."