Love
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I hope to give to you forever.”
The Notebook
“‘Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise…’
‘They made rather pathetic ends, dear.’
‘Pathetic? To die for love? How can you say so? What could be more glorious?’
‘I think that would be taking your romantic sensibilities a little far.’”
Sense & Sensibility
“Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?”
A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zenn
“Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms without an ounce of selfishness in it.”
Waitress
“Will you let me attempt to explain what you mean to me? … Before you, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars — points of light and reason. And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.”
Eclipse, Stephenie Myer
“His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed — that voice was a deathless song.”
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Isn’t it supposed to be like this? The glory of first love, and all that. It’s incredible, isn’t it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?”
Twilight, Stephenie Myer
“And though she wouldn’t describe theirs as a passionate relationship, she had convinced herself long ago that this wasn’t necessary to be fulfilled in a relationship even with a person she intended to marry. Passion would fade in time, and things like companionship and compatibility would take its place. She and Lon had this, and she had assumed this was all she needed. But now as she watched Noah rowing, she questioned this basic assumption.”
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one, and in each of them we’ve found each other.”?
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
“He whispered to her, ‘You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Allie, more than you ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.’”
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
“Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like for me. I didn’t plan on falling on love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created.”
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
“Don’t act so indignant … You’re not the only one who has to make sacrifices when it comes to being a couple. You think you’re getting the short end of the stick? Men have to make sacrificed, too. Correct me if I’m wrong, but you want Jeremy to hold your hand and snuggle as you watch a movie, you want him to share his feelings and listen, you want him to spend time with your daughter and earn enough not only to buy but renovate the house. Well, I’ll tell you straight up that no man says to himself as he’s walking down the aisle, ‘Gee, I’m going to work hard and sacrifice so I can provide a good living for my family, and I’m going to spend hours with my kids even when I’m tired, all the while hugging and kissing and listening to my wife and telling her all my troubles, and meanwhile, I’m not going to expect a single thing … A man promises to do the things to keep you happy in the hopes that you, too, will do the things that keep him happy.”
At First Sight, Nicholas Sparks
“The initial feelings associated with love were always almost like an ocean wave in their intensity, acting as the magnetic force that drew two people together. It was possible to be washed away in the emotion, but the wave wouldn’t last forever. It couldn’t — nor was it meant to be — but if two people were right for each other, a truer kind of love could last forever in its wake.”
The Rescue, Nicholas Sparks
