#love

"I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me,"he said. "Because I won't be careful with you."

"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."

"Waiting is erotic"

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated."

"That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox."

"I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are."

"Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?Clara: Because I love you."

"Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them."

"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"

"Nursing Homes [10w] Nursing homes are house haunted by the living and half-dead."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die."

"She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch."

"The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs."

"For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room."

"I love you more than I hate everything else."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"Love spiritually, not strategically."

"I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills."