Quotes in category: “Love - Misc”:

Dreams, she thought, were like soap bubbles. You could look at them from a distance, and they were lovely. It's when you stuck your face too close that your eyes wound up stinging. 

We all can use a little hope sometimes, you know. That feeling that everything is gonna be okay and that there's gonna be someone there to help make sure of that.

I almost can't believe I'm going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don't last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine. 

Maybe it's not supposed to end up happily ever after . but for once I want to live in that fairy tale world and feel what it feels like to be loved.

"Sometimes you're loved because of your weaknesses," she said. 
"What you can't do is sometimes more compelling than what you can." 
For a second, I felt hope for myself. But loving for 
weaknesses seemed like a weakness in itself. 

The only remedy for love, 
s more love. 

I'd wanted to stay on that porch with him until the sun shone bright on both of us, but I didn't. I stood up and walked down the steps. I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

In first love the soul is taken long before the body; later, the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

We sort of resemble those silent movies, we never say anything but the emotion is there and for some reason, words just aren't needed

Hope was a pathological part of puberty, like acne and surging hormones. You might sound cynical to the world, but that was just a defense mechanism, cover-up coating a zit, because it was too embarassing to admit that in spite of the bum deals you kept getting, you hadn't completely given up.

The only way to appreciate something's value is to distance yourself from it for a while 

I'm falling back to you after all that we've been through

You see, when you know what you want, you know what you want...at least you should.  If you don't know that you want it, then it probably isn't for you.

A girl likes to be crossed in love now and then, it gives her something to think of

Every once in while, people step up. They rise above themselves. Sometimes, they fall short. Life is funny sometimes; it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough, you find hope , in the words of children, in the bars of a song, in the eyes of someone you love... and if you're lucky, I mean if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love, decides to love you back 

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you’re unlike any other?
You’ll always be my thunder, and I said
Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors
I don’t wanna ever love another
You’ll always be my thunder
So bring on the rain 

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn to know the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying. 

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape. I thought he was going to be in my life forever. Then i thought i was wrong. Now he's back. But this time i know what's certain: he will be gone again, and back again and again and again because nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends become lovers. Lovers become strangers. Strangers become friends once more, and over and over.

That's the thing about letting old lovers go. You don't stop loving some of them. There are a couple you love no less than you ever did. Not to mention names...but I'm still in love with a couple. You're not going to try and make it work again, but if they needed you, you'd drop everything.

The act itself never vaires but each kiss carries a feeling all it's own, but whatever it's meaning each kiss reflects a basic human need, a need to connect to another human being

Love isn't material. It's energy. It's the feeling in a room, a situation, a person. Money can't buy it. Sex doesn't guarantee it. It has nothing at all to do with the physical world, but it can be expressed nonetheless. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgement, joining, and intimacy

and it`s two feet on the dashboard
young love in an old ford
cheap shades and a tattoo
and a yohoo bottle on the floorboard 
perfect song on the radio, sing along
cause it`s the only one we know
t`s a smile, it`s a kiss, it`s a sip of wine
it`s summertime, sweet summertime

I know I have to be careful with this kind of relationship we have . And I think the best way of doing that is to just let things ride out on their own , and see what happens next. I don't want to jump into something that still might not be ready to become something more again.

i think that i deserve him. more than anyone deserves anything