Quotes About Love

Crescent illae crescetis amores.

You think your parents are there just to love and irritate you. You see them as satellites spinning round your sun and you try to run away across the universe while they chase you.

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

It is warmth and comfort and safety. A smell of mothers.

I watch a bird as it brings food to its chicks. How it looks after them, how it protects them. And then I say to myself, "You're a better mother than me" ' Hatidza Mehmedovic, mother of two sons murdered at Srebrenica

For Jean Dennis and in memory of John Dennis Prologue

Being a mother isn't easy.

we mothers lose a lot of sleep, I realized.

Already what I remember most is the happiness of seeing you. Having tea. Falling asleep. Waking up with you there awake in the kitchen. It was like being alive twice. I'll try to tell you better when I am stronger.

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

I love you. Didn't you know that? I want to love you the way I wasn't able to before. Without holding back. Without either of us holding back.

Those who loved Ruth--so many--touched her hand, her shoulder, held her lightly, but no one could read the world inside other human bones. They could touch the skin and not feel the grief and pain it held only a skin's-width away.

You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved.

It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?

I'm going to go," he said. "All right." He didn't move. Then: "I don't want to." "Do it anyway." He chuckled. "You're a hard woman, Faith Devlin." "Hardy." "I didn't know him. He isn't real to me. Did you love him?" "Yes." But not the way I love you. Never like that.

Here I was with the guy I maybe-loved, relaxing by the ocean with salty crisp breezes and blue-gray sea curving into a for-ever horizon. We even had background music to add to the romantic ambience. And except for the "can't kiss because he's my brother" thing, this was the perfect romantic moment.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

the suppression of self-interested emotion actually inhibits true connection. Peace, love, and compassion can create social disharmony when worn like masks to cover unresolved anger, fear, sadness, and depression.

Being a McKettrick meant claiming a piece of ground to stand on and putting your roots down deep into it. Holding on, no matter what came at you. It meant loving with passion and taking the rough spots with the smooth. It meant fighting for what you wanted, letting go when that was the best thing to do.

Without a word, Carolyn held him...for a long, long time. Then, presently, she stood up, took hold of his hand and led him back to her bed, where she proceeded to put him back together again, piece by piece.

If you would win a woman's love, give her each day a gift. If you would keep her love, give her each day two gifts. Kwani

The poem presents maternal love as a paradox: monstrous on the one hand and "the only fortress strong enough to trust to" on the other.