Quotes About Love

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second.

IN EVERYONE'S LIFE there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken away against their will.

There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do.

They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I'd left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged by love—as who amongst us is not)

Threadbare, ravaged by love – as who amongst us is not.

There are moments when history and memory seem like a mist, as if what really happened matters less than what should have happened. The mist lifts and suddenly there we are, my good parents and their good children, their grateful children who phone for no reason but to talk, say their good-nights with a kiss, and look forward to home on the holidays. I see how, in a family like mine, love doesn't have to be earned and it can't be lost.

We don't choose whom we love," he told Maura, so gently that she knew he knew. If she wasn't going to be loved in return, she would have liked not to be pitied for it. She got neither of these wishes. "But people have this advantage over swans, to put their unwise loves aside and love another. Not me. I'm too much swan for that.

There seemed no end to the insane things fathers did to their families.

It's true that, as my brother grew larger, he also grew dangerous, same as my sister. But they're still ours and we want them back. They're needed here at home.

Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. I'd come to see the heavens, our father always said. But the stars were in her eyes, a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.

One Mother's Day, he gave Mom a music box that played the theme from Swan Lake. She cried for days over it.

You'd think he was a saint," Miss Dixon said. "The way people talk about him. We love dead people. As soon as they die, we start loving them." "Not all of them," said B.J. Miss Dixon looked at him. "Oh, well," she agreed. "Some people are never dead enough.

All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time

She recognized that great love carries a price of great torment if it ends, but it also bestows a greater and more valuable gift.

Love that defied trite words or even description, that carried with it tenderness and passion and laughter and friendship. Love that made her eyes sparkle and her breath stop when she saw him and imbued life with more meaning and more purpose.

Memories of her, however, would remain with him. Everywhere he'd look, she would be there, as if she were a hundred women, all shadow and wraith, marking each place at Tyemorn and Ayleshire. He'd see her on the village road, smiling beneath an oak, straddling a furrow and laughing at something a companion had said. There again, tilting her head in an inquisitive look and offering advice on the line of the barn wall, or at night, when he could only see the outline of her form.

Tu mi hai dato la fede, quando la mia fede era infranta. Mi hai dato la speranza che avevo perduto da tempo. Mi hai dato la pace che non conoscevo più

El emparejamiento de los cuerpos no llevaba necesariamente a la unión de las mentes.

Love is like lightning. You never see it coming. If it strikes you, you know it instantly and it will forever leave its mark.

To you." He kissed her mouth, then nipped her lower lip lightly. "With you, for you. In you.

Io non sono la più importante.» «Ma sei l'unica di cui m'importi.»

Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together

Aliit ori'shya tal'din. Family is more than bloodline. —Mandalorian proverb