Quotes About Love

You don't love someone because they're perfect, she says. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Marina sighs. Love's a tidal wave, she says. Because it sweeps you off your feet? I ask. No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.

The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

You did really great up there," I tell her, because I don't know how to say what I really want to: that the people you love can surprise you every day. That maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.

When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.