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Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...

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If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd s...

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...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yours...

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Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a war...

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At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at ...

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Laurie LeeI Can't Stay Long

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

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I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in th...

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It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, ...

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I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

the mother again remarked the simplicity and calmness of their relation to each other. it was hard f...

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We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another ...

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From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, tr...

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Love without sacrifice is like theft

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath....

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They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart ho...

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That's what I don't like about college, by the way. It's like a lot of people don't believe these ye...

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It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wa...

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I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.

Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wis...

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How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

So tel me, Mr. Science Journalist, do you still doubt the existence of miracles?""I just told you. Y...

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My son's mother, the girl I fell in love with when I was ten, died five years ago. I expect to join ...

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Nicole KraussThe History of Love

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...

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Nora EphronI Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

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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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing ...

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Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek...

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Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and...

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I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was j...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overco...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then ...

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I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell ...

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

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You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I wil...

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Isabella." He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. ...

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Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.

A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you look...

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This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately ...

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces...

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One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thou...

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Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if ...

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Art SpiegelmanMaus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other's...

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To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone us...

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All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties a...

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A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter ev...

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The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are....

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

All the romantic lore of our culture has told us when we find true love with a partner it will conti...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That th...

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Love is the great conqueror of lust.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with...

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There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,...

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I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or ...

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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hop...

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I laughed at him as he said this. “I am not an angel,” I asserted; “and I will not be one till I die...

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All over the world are particular people, and you could be happy with probably five or six of them, ...

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Odysseus draped the towel over his shoulders and stretched his back. "You remember practicing with w...

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Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’. . . George Q. Morris [who later became a me...

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He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.

His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that...

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You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was ful...

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He shall never know how I love him

We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.

He felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, abolishing loneliness against...

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Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls

What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it ...

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It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

Love me, beloved; Hades and DeathShall vanish away like a frosty breath;These hands, that now are at...

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And on the endless dusty ribbon of the highway, on sunken roads vaulted over by branches, on paths b...

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The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-y...

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They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have ...

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His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm comi...

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You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to...

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Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his ey...

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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he...

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No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small cre...

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I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly ex...

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The course of true love rarely runs smooth.

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Jasper FfordeLost in a Good Book

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under...

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I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let...

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I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious."Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shut...

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true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a singl...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

You?" I start to laugh. "Look at you. You're a knock-out. You're smarter than I am. You're on a care...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most b...

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…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, ...

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She said she couldn't handle it,’ he told me. ‘I’m about to lose my eyesight and she can’t handle it...

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...everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understan...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...

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