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SPRING:

"She wore the scent of early spring on her delicate neck and every kiss I stole tasted of bright yellow flowers and buzzing bees"

-Dirty Pretty Things

"Everything feels sentimental these days, every song feels loaded, feels somehow directed at me. Every emotion is heightened ten fold, your fingertips leaving burn marks on my skin. I think it only feels this way for me when things are beginning or when they're ending. And my love, we started this a long time ago."

-Love looks pretty on you

"Sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do."

"You will never be able to escape from your heart"

-The Alchemist

"We can only hate those who rescue us from loneliness."

-The Language of thorns

"Some things end. Love shouldn't be one of those things."

"Love can get us through the hardest times. It can also be our hardest times"

WITNESS:

"It is the mark of a great poet to write words that feel as though they have stood witness to your most intimate memory of love"

-Sea of strangers

SAND CASTLES:

"The memory of you like a loaded gun in my hand-my finger on the trigger"

-Sea of strangers

"But even the cruelest forms of love were never lost without heartache"

-Grim lovelies

"Avere il cuore in mano"-You hold you heart in your hand.

-Love and Gelato

"I learned that people make mistakes and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them."

-The hate U give

"When you are full and I am full , We are two suns"

-The sun and her flowers

"Sometimes he would forget her, but in forgetting he would remember her again"

-The book of lost things

STILLNESS:

"There is a certain stillness, when even the gentle flutter of a butterfly's wings feels like a hurricane."

-Dirty pretty things

"She had never imagined that curiousity was one of the many masks of love"

-Love in the time of cholera

"When he plays, all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky"

-The sky is everywhere

"If you love someone, you loved him and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love"

-1984

"It was you who made me understand that under the dullness there are things so fine and sensitive and delicate that even those I most cared for in my other life look cheap in comparison"

-Age of Innocence

"Each time you happen to me all over again"

-Age of Innocence

"Love and loss share the same unmade bed"

-Dirty, Pretty things

"Tuqburni-You bury me (arabic word), all encompassing feeling not being able to live without someone"

-Without Merit

"Sometimes he would forget her, but in forgetting he would remember her again" 

-The book of lost things

"The heart overcomes the mind. Hope and/or fear overcomes the reason"

-I'll give you the sun

'When people fall in love, they burst into flames"

-I'll give you the sun

"Love is fickle and fleeting"

-The night circus

"Love is just a word, until someone comes along and gives it meaning"

-Book Club

"You are all the colors in one,at full brightness"

-All the bright places

"Persian saying: Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better and those who suffer don't wish to be cured"

-The Zahir

"Difference of personality were managed in a warm atmosphere of praise, in which her beauty expanded like a flower in sunlight"

-The house of mirth

"But no one has love you will ever ask you to give up more than you are willing. Someone who has your heart is not entitled to your body”

-Love looks pretty on you

“He feels like the culmination of every good deeds I’ve done”

-Love looks pretty on you.

“I have love a love that takes me across oceans. A love that tells me I am home, no matter where I am in the world”

-Love looks pretty on you

 

 

“Love is one of those things that will happen to you when you are not looking”

-Love looks pretty on you

 

“Nothing is safer than the sound of you reading out loud to me”

-Milk and Honey

          

 

“You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”

-Milk and Honey

“Love made the danger in you look like safety”

-Milk and Honey

“I need someone who knows struggle as well as I do. Someone willing to hold my feet in their lap on days it is too difficult to stand, the type of person who gives exactly what I need, before I even know I need it. The type of lover who hears me even when I when I do not speak, is the type of understanding I demand”

-Milk and Honey

“About how we often mistake love for fireworks, for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm-and constant”

-The silent patient

“You turn him into poetry because you can’t have him any other way”

-Love looks pretty on you

“There is no such love that can hold you without you first withholding love. No love that can bind you, until you’ve known love knows no bounds. Love is what makes living worthwhile-a measure of what your life is worth. Love comes to you with loss as its shadow to remind you of what you could lose”

-Love looks pretty on you

“It is not love that you fall into. It is love that falls into you”

-The sky is everywhere

 

 

“Love becomes greater and noble in calamity”

-Love in the time of cholera

 

“There is bound to be someone driven mad by love. Who will give you the chance one of these days and when you do find one, observe with care they almost always have crystals in their heart”

-Love in the time of cholera

 

 

“That love that touches the soul for one moment transcends the mysteries of love that touches the body for decades”

-The nectar of pain

 

 

“Everyone who tells you that they know how love works, tells you what did not work with them”

-The nectar of pain

 

 

“If you love someone, you love them. You don’t allow your pride to stop you from expressing your love to them. If you expect them to understand your love through silence, don’t be surprised when their soul slips out of your hands in silence”

-The nectar of pain

“Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something and if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation-in short, to remain a memory”

-All the bright places

 

“But the world is exhausted, and the only wealth we have left is love”

-Pillow thoughts I

“You will find them one day. They are probably wondering when they will find you, too”

-Pillow Thoughts I

 

“When you’re in bed with someone you love, particularly for the first time, five o’clock seems almost holy”

-Bag of bones

“I think love starts here, everything is just desired and projection of all our wants, needs and fantasies. But those externalities could never work out if we didn’t turn inward and learn how to love ourselves in order to love other people. Love doesn’t look like a person. Love is our actions”

-The sun and her flowers

“There could be one rare kind of that just naturally exists between certain people. Then there’s the more common kinds that’s constructed”

-The Idiot

 

 

“If all else perished and he remained, and I should continue to be, and if all else remained and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a might stranger”

-The Wuthering heights

“You are a mirror. If you continue to starve yourself of love, you’ll only met people who’ll starve you. If you soak yourself in love the universe will hand you those who’ll love you”

-The sun and her flowers

“There are many things in life you can postpone, but love isn’t on eof them”

-Sea of strangers

 

 

“What we once known as conversation, we now know as poetry. When once we made love with our words, we now make words with our love”

-Sea of strangers

"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true. You have to know where you want to go before you get there"

-The six  of crows