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“You can get bad love anywhere. But letting good love in is an entirely different thing.”
— Ryan O'Connell, Know What’s Sexy? A Boy with Cerebral Palsy Who Owns It: Ryan O'Connelly
Tagged: Love, romance, good love, Life, Motivational
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
— Gloria Steinem, 81 Gloria Steinem Quotes to Celebrate Her 81st Birthday
Tagged: Love, romance, Right Person, Finding The Right Person, self, Self Care, self control, Self-Trust, Self-Love, Human Behavior, Life
“I don't just want to take your breath away. I want to rip it from your mouth and keep it locked away between my teeth. You can only have it back if you kiss me again.”
— Meggie Royer, Literary Sexts
Tagged: Love, romance, Sext, kiss
“I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Tagged: Unsaid words, Unsaid, Unsaid Feelings, Love, romance, Life
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the cream is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by God, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
— Rosemarie Urquico, Date A Girl Who Reads
Tagged: Love, romance, Dating, Girl Who Reads, person who reads, Book Lover, Bookworm, writer
“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others' darkness into the corner, believing in each others' light, each others' dream.”
— Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream: A Novel
Tagged: Love, romance, kiss
“Goofy, my darling, hasn’t it been a lovely day? I woke up this morning and then sun was lying like a birth-day parcel on my table so I opened it up and so many happy things went fluttering into the air: love to Doo-do and the remembered feel of our skins cool against each other in other mornings like a school-mistress. And you ‘phoned and said I had written something that pleased you and so I don’t believe I’ve ever been so heavy with happiness. The moon slips into the mountains like a lost penny and the fields are black and pungent and I want you so near so that I could touch you in the autumn stillness even a little bit like the last echo of summer. The horizon lies over the road to Lausanne and the succulent fields like a guillotine and the moon bleeds over the water and you are not so far away that I can’t smell your hair in the drying breeze. Darling — I love these velvet nights. I’ve never been able to decide whether the night was a bitter enemie or a ‘grand patron’ — or whether I love you most in the eternal classic half-lights where it blends with day or in the full religious fan-fare of mid-night or perhaps in the lux of noon — Anyway, I love you most and you ‘phoned me just because you ‘phoned me to-night — I walked on those telephone wires for two hours after holding your love like a parasol to balance me. My dear — I'm so glad you finished your story — Please let me read it Friday. And I will be very sad if we have to have two rooms. Please. Dear. Are you sort of feeling aimless, surprised, and looking rather reproachful that no melo-drama comes to pass when your work is over — as if you (had) ridden very hard with a message to save your army and found the enemy had decided not to attack — the way you sometimes feel — or are you just a darling little boy with a holiday on his hands in the middle of the week — the way you sometimes are — or are you organizing and dynamic and mending things — the way you sometimes are —
I love — the way you always are.
Dear —
Good-night —
Dear — dear dear dear dear dear dear...”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, Zelda: A Biography
Tagged: Love, romance, Special Someone, Love Letter
“I play my cards as best I can, but I lose my luck when you're not here. My darling heart, won't you please give in? I may be strong, but I want you back again.”
— Dave Matthews, Angel
Tagged: Losing, Unlucky, Luck, Love, romance, Longing, Regret
“Oh, I watch you there through the window and I stare as you wear nothing but you wear it so well. Tied up and twisted the way I'd like to be, for you, for me, come crash into me.”
— Dave Matthews, Crash Into Me
Tagged: Crash Into Me, Watching Her, Love, In love, romance
“Darling heart, our fairy tale is almost ended, and we’re going to marry and live happily ever afterward just like the princess in the tower who worried you so much—and made me so very cross by her constant recurrence — I'm so sorry for all the times I've been mean and hateful — for all the miserable minutes I've caused you when we could have been so happy. You deserve so much — so very much — I think our life together wil be like these last four days — adn I do want to marry you — even if you do think I dread it — I wish you hadn't said that — I'm not afraid of anything. To be afraid a person has either to be a coward or very great and big. I am neither.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, Zelda: A Biography
Tagged: Love, romance, Marriage, affection, In love, Love & Marriage
“And theres always my infinite love—You are a sweet person—the sweetest and dearest of all and I love you as I love my vanished youth— which is as much as a human heart can hold— filled with copper clouds like the after-math of cannon-fire, pre-war, civil-war clouds and I feel all empty and bored and very much in love with you, my dear one, my own. I wish you were here so we could stretch our legs down beside one another and feel all warm and hidden in the bed, like seeds beaten into the earth. Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world, and why is there a sleepy tremulo in the air when you are near that’s promising and living like a vibrating fecundity?

…excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, Zelda: A Biography
Tagged: Love, romance, affection, deeply in love, In love, Loving Deeply, Missing A Lover, Love Letter
“You are the only person on earth, Lover, who has ever known and loved all of me — Men love me 'cause I'm pretty — and they're always afraid of mental wickedness — and men love 'cause I'm clever, and they're always afraid of my prettines — One or two have even loved me 'cause I'm lovable, and then of course I was acting — But you just do, darling — and I do — very very very much”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, Zelda: A Biography
Tagged: Love, romance, Lovers, affection, In love
“...we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Tagged: Love, romance, visions in love, wish in love, Wishful Thinking
“I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”
— Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase
Tagged: Love, romance, affection, In love, poem, Poetry
“I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.”
— Clementine Von Radics, Home
Tagged: Love, romance, memories from the past love, Past Love, poem, Poetry
“little dark girl with
kind eyes
when it comes time to
use the knife
I won't flinch and
I won't blame
you,
as I drive along the shore alone
as the palms wave,
the ugly heavy palms,
as the living does not arrive
as the dead do not leave,
I won't blame you,
instead
I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.
little dark girl with kind eyes
you have no
knife. the knife is
mine and I won't use it
yet.”
— Charles Bukowski, Raw with Love
Tagged: Love, romance, memories from the past love, Past Love, Lovers, poem, Poetry
“You drive me insane. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don’t you? Billions of people will come and go in this world. but there will never be another like you.”
— Marie Lu, Champion: A Legend Novel
Tagged: Love, romance, admiration, Attraction
“Maybe it's not the first kisses that are supposed to be special. Maybe it's the last ones.”
— Kiera Cass, The Crown
Tagged: Love, romance, kiss, first kiss, last kiss, affection
“I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.”
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, Love & Connection
“But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.”
— Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Tagged: Love, romance, Love & Connection, love & relationship, Love & Contentment

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