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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: romance
399 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,703 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,591 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,735 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,840 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,786 people liked it

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,282 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,436 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,153 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,220 people liked it

"You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

tags: fiction, romance
533 people liked it

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays)

tags: love, romance
257 people liked it

"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
— Diana Gabaldon (Dragonfly in Amber)

tags: claire, fiction, fraser, historical, romance, scotland, time, travel
313 people liked it

"The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE."
— Meg Cabot (Princess in Training)

tags: romance
196 people liked it

"There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: romance, teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
383 people liked it

"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
— Jane Austen (Love and Friendship: And Other Early Works)

tags: romance
166 people liked it

"My soul will find yours."
— Jude Deveraux (A Knight in Shining Armor)

tags: romance
266 people liked it

"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

tags: friendship, humor, romance
213 people liked it

"You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!"
— J.R. Ward (Dark Lover)

tags: paranormal, romance
137 people liked it

"You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful."
— Charlaine Harris (Club Dead)

tags: eric-northman, humor, romance, sookie-stackhouse, true-blood
157 people liked it

"thus with a kiss I die"
— William Shakespeare

tags: history, romance
164 people liked it

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
— Albert Camus (The Fall)

tags: romance
153 people liked it

" And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: gondor, romance
172 people liked it

"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a bottle)

tags: love, romance
117 people liked it

"Everyone says you only fall in love once, but that's not true, because every time I see you, I fall in love all over again."
"
— Unknown Person

tags: love, romance
109 people liked it

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: romance
103 people liked it

""You really love her don't you," she said.
"With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.
"What's your heart telling you to do?"
"I don't know."
"Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it.""
— Nicholas Sparks

tags: love, romance
97 people liked it

"I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition."
I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful.
"Yes?"
"You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me."
I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor.
I smiled and gave her my word."
— Nicholas Sparks

tags: love, romance
97 people liked it

"And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

tags: romance, teen-fantasy, the-mortal-instruments-series
190 people liked it

"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: love, marriage, romance
68 people liked it

"One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends."
— Charlie Huston (Already Dead)

tags: love, romance
90 people liked it

"Sometimes just holding hands is holding on to everything."
— Unknown Person

tags: hands, holding, love, romance
74 people liked it

"Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere."
— Groucho Marx

tags: marriage, romance, sex
71 people liked it

""By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.
"I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."
I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation.
"Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me."
"That's more like it.""
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

tags: fiction, maenad, paranormal, romance, sookie, stackhouse, vampire
87 people liked it

""Before I sleep and after I wake up and all the hours in between ... you occupy my mind. So, practically every moment of the day you are in my thoughts. I miss you.""
— Unknown Person

tags: love, missing, romance
79 people liked it

"But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

tags: fiction, romance
81 people liked it

"Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. "
— Drew Barrymore

tags: love, romance
61 people liked it

"Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror.

"Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me."
— Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas)

tags: eric-northman, humor, romance, sookie-stackhouse, true-blood
63 people liked it

""Did we have sex?" he asked directly.
For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. "Eric," I said, "we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldn’t. We had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best you’d ever had." (At the time he couldn’t recall all the sex he’d ever had. But he’d paid me a compliment.) "Too bad you can’t remember it," I concluded with a modest smile.
Eric looked like I’d hit him in the forehead with a mallet. For all of thirty seconds his reaction was completely gratifying."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail)

tags: fiction, paranormal, romance, sookie, stackhouse, vampire
79 people liked it

"'I was ninety percent sure'
'I see' Clary said. There must have been something in her voice because he turned to look at her. Her hand crossed across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain.
'What the hell was that for?'
'The other ten percent'"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

tags: fiction, humor, novel, paranormal, romance
136 people liked it

" "One ring to show our love, One ring to bind us, One ring to seal our love and forever to entwine us""
— Evangaline (a computer persona)

tags: love, romance
85 people liked it

"Sometimes you have to do the right thing instead of the romantic thing; it's when you listen to your head instead of your heart. "
— Donna Schoenrock

tags: love, romance
44 people liked it

"'Still after all this time?'
'Always.'
A silver tear dropped into Dumbledore's beard."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: love
42 people liked it

""Things work out the way they're meant to""
— Danielle Steel (No Greater Love)

tags: danielle, romance, steel, titanic
33 people liked it

"Nice dress. Take it off."
— Janet Evanovich

tags: humor, morelli, romance
38 people liked it

"Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: romance
66 people liked it

"One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone."
— C. T. Davis

tags: romance
27 people liked it

"A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.

No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. "
— Diana Gabaldon (Outlander)

tags: historical, romance
26 people liked it

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