My Love

“My love is pizza shaped. 

Won’t you have a slice? 

It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.”

~ Dora J. Arod, 

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages

I Make Love

 

“I make love with a focus and intensity 

that most people reserve for sleep.”

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo, 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91

He Knew Me

“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: 

the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

~ Justina Chen Headley

Words Were Weapons

“Words were weapons,

 his father had taught him that, 

and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more 

than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. 

In fact, he wasn't sure he had 

ever wanted to hurt a girl before. 

Usually he just wanted them, 

and then he wanted them to leave him alone.”

~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Please, Touch Me

“Please, touch me, I pray.”

~ Jess C Scott, The Intern

Don't Let A Thief

“Don't let a thief into your house three times. 

The first time was enough. 

The second time was a chance. 

The third time means you're stupid.”

~ C. JoyBell C.

One Of The Most Important Of Life's Lessons

“One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independence, 

to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, 

from results, from opinions, and from expectations. 

Breaking attachments lead to freedom, 

but breaking attachments does not mean 

abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship,

 a relationship that nourishes your soul. 

It means ending dependency on any person or thing. 

Love is never a dependency.”

~ Brian Weiss, Messages from the Masters: 

Tapping Into the Power of Love

But Whenever I Meet

“But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, 

I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: 

the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, 

transcendent romantic relationship they 

perceive to be a normal part of living. 

And someone needs to take the fall for this. 

So instead of blaming no one for this 

(which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone 

(which is kind of meaningless), 

I'm going to blame John Cusack.”

~ Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: 

A Low Culture Manifesto

And For That One Moment Of Freedom

“And for that one moment of freedom, 

you have to listen to all that love crap... 

it drives me nuts sometimes... 

I want to kick them out immediately... 

I do now and then. 

But that doesn't keep them away. 

They like it, in fact. 

The less you notice them the more they chase after you. 

There's something perverse about women... 

they're all masochists at heart.”

~ Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

That's The Power of Literature

“That's the power of literature, you know, 

it can act like little love letters between

 two people who can only explain their 

feelings by pointing at other people's.”

~ Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

I Don't Know Someone Could Love Me Like This

“I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. 

"Could love me and love me and love me without... needing space."

Lincoln wasn't asleep. 

He rolled on top of her.

"There's no air in space," he said.

~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

The Wounded Child Inside

“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who,

 when he first spoke his truths, 

was silenced by paternal sadism, 

by a patriarchal world that did not 

want him to claim his true feelings. 

The wounded child inside many females 

is a girl who was taught from early childhood

 that she must become something other than herself, 

deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. 

When men and women punish each other for truth-telling, 

we reinforce the notion that lies are better. 

To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, 

and most importantly, we affirm the value of truth-telling. 

Lies may make people feel better, 

but they do not help them to know love.”

~ Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

We Met Each Other

“We met each other when we were young, 

before we knew enough about disappointment, 

and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”

~ Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

Falling In Love

“Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,

'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. 

I'm signing up for the journey with you. 

Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? 

It's going to be hard but I want to get there.”

~ Timothy Keller

Often Men

“Often men who have been emotionally 

neglected and abused as children by dominating 

mothers bond with assertive women, only to

 have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. 

While they could not 'smash their mommy' and 

still receive love, they find that they can engage 

in intimate violence with partners who respond

 to their acting out by trying harder to connect 

with them emotionally, hoping that the love 

offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. 

If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, 

to create the space of emotional connection,

 the dominator model remains in place 

and the relationship just becomes a 

site for continuous power struggle.”

~ Bell Hooks

When We Fail To Set Boundaries

“When we fail to set boundaries 

and hold people accountable, 

we feel used and mistreated. 

This is why we sometimes attack 

who they are, which is far more hurtful than 

addressing a behavior or a choice.”

~ Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

When Forever Becomes A Place

“When forever becomes a place...

when forever ceases to be just a word… 

when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…

but instead becomes a place 

where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... 

that is a reflection of true love.”

~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Your Absence

“Your absence has not taught me to be alone,

 it merely has shown that when together 

we cast a single shadow on the wall.”

~ Doug Fetherling

I Hope We'll Be Friends Forever

“I hope we'll be friends forever,

 together we'll always be. 

I don't think you understand 

just how much you mean to me. 

And one day when we part our ways, 

we'll think back to the past 

and think about how happy we are 

'cause our friendship will always last.”

~ Bridget Davis

But In The Real World

“But in the real world, you couldn't really 

just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, 

dad on the other, with the child equally divided between.

 It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: 

no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

 It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, 

that were lost in the severing, and their 

absence kept everything from being complete.”

~ Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

Caring About Someone

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. 

It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. 

Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”

~ Jim Butcher, Small Favor

I Don't Understand Dating

“I don't understand dating... 

and the other things that people do... 

all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. 

The one who gives you four arms, four legs, 

four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. 

There's only one of those, 

so what are all the other things for? 

Like dating?”

~ C. JoyBell C.

Caring About Someone

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. 

It isn't easy. 

But it isn't complicated, either. 

Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”

~ Jim Butcher, Small Favor

Siblings

“Siblings: children of the same parents, 

each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

~ Sam Levenson

If A Man

If a man can possess a woman sexually

 -really possess- 

he won't need to control her ideas, 

her opinions, her clothes, 

her friends, even her other lovers.”

~ Toni Bentley

The Love Of Which I Speak

“This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - 

it looks for a way of being constructive.

Love is not possessive.

Love is not anxious to impress nor does it 

cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.

Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.

Love is not touchy.

Love does not keep account of evil or 

gloat over the wickedness of other people. 

On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.

Love knows no limits to its endurance, 

no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; 

it can outlast anything. 

It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.”

~ Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me be a Woman

No Matter How Close We Are

“No matter how close we are to another person, 

few human relationships are as free from strife, 

disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship 

you have with a good dog. 

Few human beings give of themselves to 

another as a dog gives of itself. 

I also suspect that we cherish dogs because 

their unblemished souls make us wish - 

consciously or unconsciously - 

that we were as innocent as they are, 

and make us yearn for a place where innocence 

is universal and where the meanness, 

the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.”

~ Dean Koontz, A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

The Opposite of Love

“...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. 

It's not giving a damn. 

If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... 

or they couldn't possibly hate. 

Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”

~ Leo F. Buscaglia

Making Love

“Making love to me is amazing. 

Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. 

The absence of two little commas 

nearly transformed me into a sex god.”

~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo, 

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91

Contiguous

"contiguous, adj.

I felt silly for even mentioning it, 

but once I did, I knew I had to explain.

"When I was a kid, "I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--

you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. 

And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. 

I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. 

I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--

California and Nevada, completely in love. 

So a lot of the time when we're like this"--

my ankles against the backs of your ankles, 

my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, 

my thighs on the backs of your legs, 

my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--

"I can't help but think about California and Nevada, 

and how we're a lot like them. 

If someone were drawing us from above as a map. 

That's what we'd look like; that's how we are."

For a moment, you were quiet. 

And then you nestled in and whispered.

"Contiguous."

And I knew you understood.”'

~ David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

The End Of A Relationship

“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. 

Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. 

In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. 

Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.”

~ Ashly Lorenzana

I Suppose It's Not A Social Norm

“I suppose it’s not a social norm, 

and not a manly thing to do — 

to feel, discuss feelings. 

So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. 

Social norms and stuff…

what good are social norms, really? 

I think all they do is project a limited 

and harmful image of people. 

It thus impedes a broader 

social acceptance of what someone, 

or a group of people, might actually be like.”

~ Jess C Scott, New Order

Love Without Sacrifice

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: 

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Why Don't We Break Up?

“Why don’t we break up? 

I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. 

And that’s not an easy thing to do.”

~ John Green, Looking for Alaska

Right Now We Are Here

“Right now we are here, 

and nothing can mar our perfection, 

or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”

~ Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

They Lay Silently

“They lay silently. 

She was staring at something across the room. 

She was making him feel uncomfortable. 

'It wouldn't work. 

It's the attraction of opposites,' he said.

We're not opposites.'

I don't mean just you and me. 

Women fall in love when they get to know you. 

Men are just the opposite. 

When they finally know you they're ready to leave.”

~ James Salter

Siblings

“Siblings: children of the same parents, 

each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”

~ Sam Levenson

Some People

“Some people come into our lives and 

leave footprints on our hearts and 

we are never ever the same.”

~ Flavia Weedn

If You Spend Your Life

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings 

and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t 

distinguish what should be respected in them.”

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night 

& The Last Tycoon

Mutual Caring Relationships

“Mutual caring relationships require 

kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism,

 joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, 

and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.”

~ Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers:

Important Things to Remember

A Man is Lucky

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. 

A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

~ Charles Dickens

The Quickest Way

“The quickest way to rectify that mistake 

(choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, 

moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.”

~ Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: 

The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

You Think That

“You think that holding someone 

hard will bring them closer. 

You think that you can hold them so hard 

that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, 

when you pull away. Every time Eleanor pulled 

away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.”

~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

What You Want Most

“What you want most you push away from you.

You want more than you care to admit.”

~ Tarjei Vesaas, The Bridges

Some People

“Some people come into our lives and leave footprints 

on our hearts and we are never ever the same.”

~ Flavia Weedn

If You Spend Your Life

“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings 

and feeding their vanity, you get so you 

can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night & The Last Tycoon

Mutual Caring Relationships

“Mutual caring relationships require 

kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism,

 joy in the other's achievements, 

confidence in oneself, and the ability to give 

without undue thought of gain.”

~ Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: 

Important Things to Remember

You Think That

“You think that holding someone hard 

will bring them closer. 

You think that you can hold them so hard 

that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, 

when you pull away.

Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, 

she felt the gasping loss of him.”

~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

The Quickest Way

“The quickest way to rectify that mistake 

(choosing the wrong person) 

is by learning from that, moving on, 

and choosing much more wisely in the future.”

~ Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: 

The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Yes

“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: 

you're like death, you take everything.”

~ Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves