Quotes About Love

Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or T.S. Eliot or, God forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them?

At some point, I'd like to have an origina l idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but I'll wait and see.

And is that what love looks like -- all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?" "Sometimes it is.

It's like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult relationship and still get invited to threesomes?" - Dexter Mayhew

Finally, she loved someone and felt fairly confident that she was loved in return. If someone asked Emma, as they sometimes did at parties, how she and her husband had met, she told them: 'We grew up together.

The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn

Perhaps all families have these fleeting moments when, without ever saying as much, they take each other in and think, we work and we fit together and we love each other, and if we can remain like this, all will be fine.

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions.

I love him, she thought, I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today.

I'd always been under the impression that we were together because we wanted to be together, and because we were happy most of the time. I'd thought that we loved each other. I'd thought … clearly I was mistaken, but I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.' Connie turned to me, her head on the pillow, and said, 'Douglas, why would anyone in their right mind look forward to that?

And is that what love looks like - all wet mouth sand your skirt rucked up?

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately, fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.

Él puso suavemente una mano en la nuca, a la vez que ella le ponía suavemente la suya en la cadera, y se dieron un beso en la calle, rodeados de gente con prisa por volver a casa, en la luz de verano; y sería, para ambos, el beso más dulce de su vida. Aquí empieza todo. Empieza todo aquí, hoy.

She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not being here well it just isn't right

She made you decent. And in return you made her so, so happy.

Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.

But Dexter blinked hard, shook his head then nudged her hand with his. 'So what I thought we'd do for the next couple of days is, you can show me the sights, and I'll just mope about and make stupid remarks.' She smiled and nudged his hand back. 'It's hardly surprising what you've been through, are going through,' and she covered his hand with her own.

Change lives through art, maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that. It wasn't much in the way of a guiding philosophy, and not one your could share, least of all with this man, but it was what she believed.

It had sometimes puzzled me why falling in love should be regarded as some wondrous event, accompanied by soaring strings, when it so often ended in humiliation, despair or acts of awful cruelty.

And there it was. She'd said it and now I could say it back, the most banal and brilliant exchange of dialogue, which we'd repeat, over and over, for just as long as we meant it.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. (Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.)

that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

Maybe they're in love." "And is that what love looks like - all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?" "Sometines it is.