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Quotes About Love

Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.
~ R. Scott Bakker
The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They march to save their wives and children. Their tribes and their nations. If they learn that the world, their world, slips into ruin behind them, that their wives and daughters may perish for want of their shields, their swords, the Host of Hosts would melt about the edges, then collapse.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Every woman knows there are only two kinds of men: those who feel and those who pretend. Always remember, my dear, though only the former can be loved, only the latter can be trusted. It is passion that blackens eyes, not calculation.
~ R. Scott Bakker
We," she repeated, laughing as though both hurt and astounded. "It really is 'we' now, isn't it?" With a shy, even scared, smile, she helped him pull free his weathered robes. "When I can't find you," he said, "or even when you turn away, I feel … I feel hollow, as though my heart's a thing of smoke … Isn't that 'we'?
~ R. Scott Bakker
He said ... A pause. He cleared his throat. He said that pity was the only love I could hope for. He saw her swallow, blink. Oh, Akka ... Of all the world, only she truly understood. Of all the world.
~ R. Scott Bakker
If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. Who you once were, Leweth, ceased to exist the moment your wife died.
~ R. Scott Bakker
A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There's something sad about that." He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. "There's something sad about all couples," he said.
~ R. Scott Bakker
No, Leweth. You fled to remember. You fled to conserve all the ways your wife had moved you, to shield the ache of her loss from the momentum of others. You fled to make a bulwark of your misery.
~ R. Scott Bakker
A sorcerer and a whore. Perhaps a certain desperation was to be expected of such unions, as though that strange word, "love," became profound in proportion to the degree one was scorned by others.
~ R. Scott Bakker
She understood, and it terrified her, for it was a thing too near to love.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Would you love me if you knew I suck down liver blood in the supermarket?
~ R.L. Stine
What a romantic idea…
~ R.L. Stine
Or your dog?
~ R.L. Stine
mammals, he mutters. can't live with them, can't live without them.
~ R.L. Stine
And she reached her face up for another kiss.
~ R.L. Stine
Thank you, Honey, Becka whispered gratefully.
~ R.L. Stine
In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me, he whispered. I love you, Claire. She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.
~ Rachel Caine
God, I needed you, he murmured. I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more. ~Shane~
~ Rachel Caine
You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.
~ Rachel Caine
I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.
~ Rachel Caine
Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
~ Rachel Caine
Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love." "I hardly think there's any chance of that," Amelie said. I doubt you have the capacity.
~ Rachel Caine
Does it hurt?" He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. "Only when I laugh." "I'll try not to be funny." "Epic fail, beautiful.
~ Rachel Caine
You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you! he called as she ran down the hall. Love you, too, jackass!
~ Rachel Caine