Quotes About Love

no matter what, when you leave your family tell them you love them. It doesn't matter if you had a disagreement, a fight, if you're still angry even after a good night's sleep. Tell them you love them and you'll work it out, no matter what, because tomorrow is never guaranteed.

That's the problem with dating somebody you're not truly in love with. Every few weeks the pressure builds and you turn into a monster. You're not sure who you hate more for the lie you are living, him or yourself.

When loved ones can't seem to reach you, they'll try until eventually they find a way. I find great solace in knowing that Dad was able to send energy to soothe me through others. We should all be grateful for those kinds of signs and messages; they're priceless.

So how could you ever eat another strawberry and not know that God loves you? I want you to think about that every time you eat a strawberry. Do you hear me?

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

This larder of memories, of sex, of life, of family that we had built up, could always be called upon in the leaner times of our relationship... Everything we had built together over twenty years was there to be tapped into, summoned as evidence that we were made to last... I hadn't realized how much I counted on that trick working until the time came when it didn't.

Jake: I'm not offering up excuses of any kind... I was just saying that sometimes shit happens, and I don't have a choice. Natalie: No, Jake, that's where you're wrong. Me getting cancer? True enough, I had no choice. How you treat the ones you love? Well, there, you always have a choice.

And now here he was. With his love and his hope and, yes, his imperfections, that, in a few months if everything mirrored the events of my prior life, I'd soon trade in for the love and hope of another man who was equally imperfect though in far different ways.

I smiled sweetly and pushed up on my tiptoes, kissing him softly on his too-chapped lips, and agreed. "Yes, to us.

motherhood is like this: a series of tiny moments that add up to an enormous love, with lots of other moments of frustration and misunderstanding and complexity woven in between.

Dearly beloved, We are gathered here today, To get through this thing called life. —Prince, "Let's Go Crazy

I'm better at life with you in it.

being family doesn't mean that you don't hurt each other. It means that you might nick each other from time to time, but you love one another anyway.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. —Zelda Fitzgerald

fell in love with anyone who loved him back.

His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be surprised if they one day throttled one another, had naturally wangled the next best seat in the house: row two, on the aisle.

Love isn't poison. It won't kill you. It's natural, it's complicated, it's crazy-making, but it's a fact of life.

Mathematics is natural. Love is natural. It only makes sense that it's mathematically quantifiable.

The majority of love affairs are temporary. But that doesn't diminish the possibility the next one might become something more.