Raven NHS's favorite quotes

"He’s like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can’t live without him now. It’s too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: twilight

5,732 people liked it

"Live like you were dying, Love becuase you are"
— Mark Green

tags: romance

102 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love

2,720 people liked it

"I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

tags: dear, john, nicholas, sparks

322 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

119 people liked it

"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: love

150 people liked it

"I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. "
— Sarah Dessen

655 people liked it

"Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
— Sarah Dessen

564 people liked it

"They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now"
— Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: longing, love, missing, sadness

108 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

8,453 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength

3,783 people liked it

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 09: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love

2,885 people liked it

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

tags: love

1,173 people liked it

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

tags: love

717 people liked it

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

560 people liked it

"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

467 people liked it

"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."
— Nicholas Sparks (Nights in Rodanthe)

tags: love

142 people liked it

"It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away"
— Barry Gibb

tags: authors, inspirational, music, romance, songwriters, writing

226 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

543 people liked it

"I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you"
— Roy Croft

tags: romance

5 people liked it

"'But do we know how to make love stay?'
'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.'"
— Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)

tags: honesty, love, reality, romance

3 people liked it

"do you really think he likes me lizzi?"
"jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you the rest of it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: attraction, guys, humor, love, men, movie

259 people liked it

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
— Judy Garland

tags: love

139 people liked it

"A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

tags: kiss, love

26 people liked it

"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

tags: love

162 people liked it

"I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

-Della Lee"
— Sarah Addison Allen (The Sugar Queen)

tags: first, heaven, kiss, kisses, love

41 people liked it

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

tags: love

43 people liked it

"And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

142 people liked it

"Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

88 people liked it

"I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be."
— Nicholas Sparks (A Walk to Remember)

79 people liked it

"...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together."
— Emily Giffin (Love the One You're With)

tags: love

47 people liked it

"He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked."
— Ann Brashares

tags: love

37 people liked it

"some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once."
— Ann Brashares (Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood)

tags: love

39 people liked it

"When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)

tags: love

101 people liked it

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."
— John Lennon

tags: love

37 people liked it

"the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by."
— Nikki Giovanni

tags: friendship, life, love

27 people liked it

"I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be."
— Nicholas Sparks

tags: love

60 people liked it

"“Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.” "
— Lauren Conrad

tags: celebrities, love

23 people liked it

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

1,173 people liked it

"The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: love

410 people liked it

"Your first kiss is destiny knocking."
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

12 people liked it

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