“It happens to everyone as they grow up.
You find out who you are and what you want,
and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do.
So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
—Nicholas Sparks
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“The smell of her hair,
the taste of her mouth,
the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him,
or into the air all round him.
She had become a physical necessity.”
—George Orwell
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“She wants to know if I love her.
That’s all anyone wants from anyone else,
not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
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“When marrying, ask yourself this question:
Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age?
Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Be careful who you call your friends.
I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.”
—Al Capone
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“What if the Devil doesn’t know he’s the Devil?”
—Cathrine Goldstein
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“Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery — It happens basically never,
but if it does, you really shouldn’t blow it.”
—Jessica Verdi
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“And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive,
and that another human being was there to testify that fact.”
—Rainbow Rowell
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“You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.”
—Sappho
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“I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.”
—Michael Kors
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“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there’s a lot of difference.
I love you — I love you all the time — It’s too much to stand —”
—Ernest Hemingway in a letter to Hadley Richardson
December 1920
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“You deserve to need me, not to have me.”
—Augusten Burroughs
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“I have been waiting all my life to be with you.
My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence.
I need you like life needs life.
I want you bad like a natural disaster.
You are all I see.
You are the only one I want to know.”
—Henry Rollins
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“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
—Ambrose Bierce
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“But my words become stained with your love.
You occupy everything, you occupy everything.”
—Pablo Neruda
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“If you meet somebody and your heart pounds,
your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one.
When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm.
No anxiety, no agitation.”
—Monica Drake
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“Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions,
much more complicated than most people realize.
There are dozens of smiles,
each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.”
—Paul Ekman
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“It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you.
Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs.
It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.”
—Melina Marchetta
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“I see you everywhere, in the stars,
deep in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
—Virginia Woolf
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“There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
—W. Somerset Maugham
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“It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody.
You have to have energy, generosity, blindness.
There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss:
if you think about it you don’t do it.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
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“I long to write you a love letter tonight.
You are all about me.”
—Katherine Mansfield in a letter to John Middleton Murry
1917