Quotes About Passion

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.

I mean it, I said, and all at once, I knew: This is what I wanted; I wanted Natalie, not just for tonight, but for a lifetime of days and nights like the one we were having right now. (p. 169, Trevor Benson)

Vorrei avere il talento per dipingere i miei sentimenti per te, perché sento che le mie parole sono sempre inadeguate. Immagino di usare il rosso per la tua passione e l'azzurro per la tua gentilezza; un verde bosco per riflettere la profondità della tua simpatia e un giallo brillante per il tuo incrollabile ottimismo. Però mi chiedo lo stesso: la tavolozza di un artista sarebbe in grado di catturare tutte le sfumature di ciò che significhi per me?

Después de todo, una cosa era ser consciente de que sus sentimientos hacia Amanda no habían cambiado, y otra cosa diferente era enfrentarse al futuro con la certeza de que siempre estaría enamorado de ella.

All that she could think was that she needed him. She needed his arms around her, needed him to hold her and whisper that they'd find a way to be together. pg. 383

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when its over-- Adrienne Willis, Nights in Rodanthe

Tout à coup, j'eus une révélation: voilà ce que je voulais. Je voulais Natalie, et pas juste ce soir, mais pour une vie entière de jours et de nuits comme celle que nous vivions à cet instant.

Cuando sus labios sellaron los míos, supe que podría vivir hasta cumplir los cien años y visitar todos los países del mundo, pero que nada se podría comparar con ese preciso instante, cuando, por primera vez, besé a la chica de mis sueños y supe que mi amor por ella nunca tendría fin,,

un hombre que la miraba con tal intensidad como para hacer que el resto del mundo se desvaneciera a su alrededor. En ese preciso momento fue cuando se enamoró de él.

Nadie ha erigido un monumento en mi honor y mi nombre pronto caerá en el olvido, pero he amado a una persona con toda el alma, y con eso me basta.

The heart wants what it wants.

El amor puede conseguir lo imposible

Él entornó los ojos mientras ella se apoyaba en su hombro, y en un instante, ya nada le importó. Ni la canción, ni el local, ni las otras parejas a su alrededor. Solo ella. Se entregó a la agradable sensación de sentir el cuerpo de Elizabeth tan cerca, pegado al suyo, y se movieron lentamente en pequeños círculos sobre el suelo lleno de serrín, perdidos en un mundo que parecía estar creado solamente para ellos dos.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.

Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I'm not one of them. This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.

What really matters is what you like, not what you are like

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I'm looking for someone, and before I know it I've found her.

Well, I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing Both Sides Now with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.