Quotes About Love

That's all everyone wants—to be loved. To belong. To be forgiven for their sins.

Charles Dickens once said that "Home" is simply a name, a word, but it's a strong one; stronger than any magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. And when I saw Blake again after we thought he'd died, as I held his son's hand in that hospital room, I finally understood how, sometimes, "Home" is not a place. It's a person . . .

He loves me. I won't let her do this to me—ruin my chances . . . He's going to marry me. Both our families know it. We have our future cut out, and I won't let this stupid fat foreigner kid destroy what the two of us can become. We worked for it.

We . . . all just need to feel worthy, don't we? To be loved. To belong. Because if we don't feel that we belong somewhere, how can we ever call it home? Isn't it a most basic survival thing, because to be cast out of a group, or a herd, can mean death?

Love and pride and a painful protective instinct crunch through her chest. Matthew and Phoebe are Lily's raison d'être. She knows why she wanted kids so badly. Having children is a hopeful, redemptive act. It's not only a literal reinvention of oneself, it's a way to reshape the idea of one's self.

Your father and I, we immigrated, Katarina, so you wouldn't grow up like us. We did it for you. We struggled for you. I cleaned houses and hotel rooms for you. All for you. Everything. And look at what you have done to us." Then my mother got sick. Really sick.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

Sognavo di te. I've dreamed of you. Ti desideravo nelle mia braccia dal primo momento che ti vedi. I've wanted you in my arms since the moment I met you. Ho bisogno di te. I need you

He cleared his throat, "Zoe, i think you said you love me." "I did say it. I do love you with all my heart." "I see." There was a long pause, then he said, "For how long has this been going on?" "I don't know," she said, "Sometimes i think it started a long, long time ago." "You might have mentioned it." "I didn't want to encourage it," she said, "I thought it was a bad idea.

Beaumont wanted Esmond very badly. Esmond wanted Beaumont's wife. And she didn't want anybody.

Clara will break him to bridle," Longmore said. "And if she can't cure his wild ways, who knows? Maybe he'll ride into a ditch or get run over by a post chaise, and she'll be a young widow. Do try to look on the bright side.

Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it." "Of course we will," Sophye said. "He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said. "No, he asked me to marry him." There was a short stunned silence. Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

I love you madly," she said. "I shall make you happy if I have to kill somebody to do it. But that ought not to be necessary.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

You shouldn't have married an elderly man." "Virgil was four and fifty when we wed," she [Daphne] said. "That is not exactly Methuselah." "How old were you?" "Nineteen and a half," she said. ""You'd have done better with two husbands of seven and twenty," he said.

I could not bear to leave you coldly or hurt you in any way, even if it were the smallest hurt." "A small hurt," he said. "That is like saying the guillotine blade nicks a bit.

She set her hand against his chest, to push him away. He laid his hand over hers, and held hers there, over his pounding heart.

Then came her voice in his ear: "I give myself to thee. I give myself to thee. I give myself to thee." And at last she sank onto him, and he wrapped his arms about her and savoured the delicious peace. The stray, funny thought came: we're married , and he laughed out loud.

I love her,' he said. 'I've loved her since we were children. But you-' 'It's my fault, is it?' she said. 'I'm the demon destroying your happiness? Only look at yourself and listen to yourself. Like every other man, you want what you can't have. Like every other man, you'll stay interested - even obsessed - until you get it. You came here this evening because you can't think straight - because it drives you mad not to have something you want.

If he had been an ancient Egyptian, it was her image he'd have painted on the walls of his tomb, so that he could look at her for all eternity. Earl of Lisle, Last Night Scandal

Što te onda zadržava ovdje? upitao je sebe. Koja te je mo?na sila ovamo dovukla, da glupavo zuriš poput mjese?inom o?aranog šteneta u ku?u samo zato jer je ona unutra? I koji su te to lanci držali ovdje, u iš?ekivanju da je samo na?as vidiš? Dodir. Poljubac. To je odvratno, rekao je sebi. I bilo je, ali bilo je istina, i on je to mrzio i mrzio je nju jer je to u?inila istinom.

hacía tiempo que había comprendido que el amor era traicionero. Podía transformar el mundo de cielo en infierno en un instante, y al instante seguiente volver a tranformarlo en sentido contrário, y asi ad infinitum.

Ele é homem – disse Leonie. – O que foi que Byron disse sobre homens e mulheres apaixonados? (…) – "Na vida do homem, o amor é uma coisa à parte; na da mulher, é toda a vida" – citou ele.

Moj, pomislila je, i ta je pomisao bila bolna, gorkoslatka, misao nade i o?aja u jednome. Bio je njezin imenom, i po crkvenom i po svjetovnom zakonu. Ali nijedan ga zakon nije mogao u?initi istinski, potpuno njezinim. Za to ?e se trebati dugo i tvrdokorno boriti.