We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.- Marissa Meyer
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.- Paulo Coelho
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.- Albert Einstein
Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?- Susan Fletcher
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.- D.H. Lawrence
I hug him tightly. 'I can't imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me.' 'Me, too,' he breathes. 'My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.- E.L. James
But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--- Hubert Selby Jr.
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.- Shel Silverstein
It's easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.- Colleen Hoover
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.- Arrigo Boito
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?- Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.- Shaun David Hutchinson
Be worthy love, and love will come.- Louisa May Alcott
But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.- Amanda Grace
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?- Richard Rodgers
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.- Truman Capote
I made such a fool of myself,' she lamented.'Love does not make you a fool.''He didn't love me back.''That does not make you a fool, either.''Just tell me '¦' Her voice cracked. 'When does it stop hurting?''Sometimes never.- Mitch Albom
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.- Tess Gerritsen
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.- William Shakespeare
Hmm'¦now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don't pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.- Colleen Houck
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.- Haruki Murakami
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.- Robert A. Heinlein
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.- Nicholas Sparks
And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.- Leonard Cohen
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.- William Goldman
Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?- Kaui Hart Hemmings
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always," said Snape.- J.K. Rowling
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.- David Levithan
Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.- Michelle Hodkin
Love was the most savage monster of all.- Rick Riordan
Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.- Neil Gaiman
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.- Jane Austen
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.- J.R.R. Tolkien
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.- Toni Morrison
I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.- Jamie Weise
When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.- Clary Fray- Cassandra Clare
I realized I'm in love. It's always been right in front of me.- Richelle Mead
Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.- Cassandra Clare
The way you're singing in your sleepThe way you look before you leapThe strange illusions that you keepYou don't knowBut I'm noticingThe way your touch turns into arcsThe way you slide into the darkThe beating of my open heartYou don't knowBut I'm noticing- David Levithan
Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.- Chuck Palahniuk
I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one' that she won't say it back.- Alex Flinn