#love

"I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied."

"Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it."

"I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."

"The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came."

"My Dearest Julianne,Thank you for your immeasurable gift.The only thing I have of value is my heart.It’s yours,Gabriel."

"Object of Desire A woman knows she's the object of a unknown man's desirelike a game animal becoming aware it is being looked at."

"...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left."

"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."

"To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery."

"Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer."

"Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails."

"He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever."

"This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice."

"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."

"Real love finds you once, if you're lucky."

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

"Metamorphosis [10w] Change. Become the butterfly.Don't stay a caterpillar with wings."

"Love is the most precious gift you could ever possibly hope to steal. Some women foolishly do not leave their rib cages locked at night."

"This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking."

"Self-Contempt [10w] Self-contempt is calling yourself collect and refusing to accept the charges."