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He whom the gods love dies young.

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MenanderMenander: The Plays and Fragments

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. De...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one y...

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Right, by tomorrow morning everyone will have congregated in Le Havre and you can all pile in the ca...

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Neal StephensonThe Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into hi...

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Liza Hempstock, who had been Bod's friend for the last six years, was different in another way; she ...

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Attraction is not an option.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about somethi...

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I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition."I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too a...

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The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...

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As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his ...

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All they told me was that he was forty-two when he died. I just wanted...to find out more about what...

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It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems ...

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Nicholas SparksA Walk to Remember

When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and ...

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You really love her don't you," she said.With all my heart."She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.W...

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It was... the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and th...

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That's why I don't tell people about us. They wouldn't understand, and 1 don't feel the need to expl...

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She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this wa...

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You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the be...

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Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed...

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You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ev...

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True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

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Nicholas SparksMessage in a Bottle

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories...

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If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend to...

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See me just as I see you.

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the sa...

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I gave you the best of me.

I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.

And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would al...

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Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ...

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That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should...

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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or may...

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They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and chal...

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Every great love starts with a great story...

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding ...

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I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath....

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But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustaine...

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Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself...

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Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world...

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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I...

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Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or t...

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Nicole KraussThe History of Love

When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an ap...

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Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, a...

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I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or...

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If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort...

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Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

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Osamu DazaiBlue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and...

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. ...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving oth...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound...

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With a chaste heart With pure eyes I celebrate your beautyHolding the leash of bloodSo that it might...

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I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are l...

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Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of t...

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Pablo NerudaPassions and Impressions

Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sw...

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Patrick RothfussThe Name of the Wind

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked ...

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It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost ...

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I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ...

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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been writt...

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When love is not madness it is not love.

she allowed herself to dwell on the cause of this strange, apprehensive exultation that she sensed f...

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When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everyth...

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Randy PauschThe Last Lecture

I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain...

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Richard BrautiganLoading Mercury With a Pitchfork

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a p...

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If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take ...

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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...

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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...

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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...

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Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What r...

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For you, I wish for second chances

I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movemen...

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I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

I said, somewhat confused, “What’s the problem?”[Kristy] rolled her eyes. Beside her, Monica said, “...

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I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the ...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

You must be a rich man," she said. "Not much of a warrior, though. You keep letting me sneak up on y...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of and that had come down to her had set a tra...

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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble...

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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.