"I don't suppose you believe love could last forever."
I'd hurt him. I looked away, chagrined.
"You're mistaken," I said. "I do believe it could. But it would depend upon the lovers."
He folded his arms and watched me, forcing me to return his gaze. Oh, those eyes.
"And what kind of lovers must they be?" he asked.
The You-and-Me kind?"
— Julie Berry (The Amaranth Enchantment)

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."
— Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)

"I am not picky when it comes to having a relationship with someone; I'm just careful not to get hurt again."
— http://yaneygirl.blogspot.com/

"I love making friends. It is the people I can't stand."
— Linus

"I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you."
— Jodi Picoult (The Pact: A Love Story)

"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time."
— Haruki Murakami

"I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks, I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence? "
— Audrey Niffenegger

"Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control."
— Deb Caletti

""Give me your love or I kill you" say a pair of dark eyes'
"Give me your love or I die" say a pair of blue eyes."
— traditional Spanish copla

"May those who love us love us.And those that don't love us,May God turn their hearts.And if He doesn't turn their hearts,May he turn their ankles,So we'll know them by their limping."
— Irish Curse

"I am like an apple,
You are like an apricot
I have a heart inside me,
Only a stone you've got!"
— traditional Spanish copla translated into English

"You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together"
— Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat)

"You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence."
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."
— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel)

""I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last."
-George from If We Kiss"
— Rachel Vail

"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
— Chuck Palahnuik

"If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
— Mary Pickford

"The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It's not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know its happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir'. It just happens."
— Robert R. McCammon (Boy's Life)

""..do you know that the first time I ever held you, I looked into your eyes and lost my heart? The same way I'm sure every father does when he holds his child for the first time. I knew then and there-right there on that very spot-that you were meant to be my little girl...""
— Holly Kennedy

""The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.""
— Jonathan Antin

"It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"Don't make a girl a promise, if you know you can't keep it. "
— Cortana, Halo 3

"...I've made it my business to observe fathers and daughters. And I've seen some incredible, beautiful things. Like the little girl who's not very cute - her teeth are funny, and her hair doesn't grow right, and she's got on thick glasses - but her father holds her hand and walks with her like she's a tiny angel that no one can touch. He gives her the best gift a woman can get in this world: protection. And the little girl learns to trust the man in her life. And all the things that the world expects from women - to be beautiful, to soothe the troubled spirit, heal the sick, care for the dying, send the greeting card, bake the cake - allof those things become the way we pay the father back for protecting us..."
— Adriana Trigiani (Big Stone Gap)

"For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life."
— Lisa See (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)

"Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street."
— Gabrielle Zevin (Elsewhere)

"I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because I am a queen"
— india arie

"You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair..."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

"What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright."
— Brian Morton/Breakable You

"Girls,always say he broke my heart but if he did youd be dead"
— Whoever

"You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see. "
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Because I'm Worth It)

"One girl is worth more use than 20 boys."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time. "
— Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)

""From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty"
— Jody Gehrman

"Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (I Like It Like That)

""Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.""
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)

"life would be perfect if girls had a mute button, guys had an delete button, bad times had a fast forward button, and good times had a pause button."
— Julie Stone

""A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True"
"
— Robert Benson (Between the Dreaming and the Coming True: The Road Home to God)

"I want to be remembered as the girl who was always smiling even if she was dying on the inside, and i want to be remembed as the girl who could brighten up your day even if she couldnt brighten up her own."
— annonomys

"You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens."
— Stephen King

"A man can see a hundred women, lust for a thousand more, but it is one scent that will open his eyes and turn him to love."
— Cs Richardson (The End of The Alphabet: A Novel)

"People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. --Margaret Lea"
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

"I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius"
— Anne Rice

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
— Ambrose Bierce

"always smile in the morning, it makes people wonder what you did the night before..."
— i have no idea

"Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers. "
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"There's a saying that goes "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Okay, how about "nobody should throw stones?" That's crappy behavior! My policy is "No stone throwing regardless of housing situation." There is one exception though. If you're trapped in a glass house and you have a stone then throw it! So really, it's only people in glass houses should throw stones... provided they are trapped."
— Demetri Martin

"I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had."
— Susan Fletcher (Eve Green: A Novel)