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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,492 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,234 people liked it

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
5,556 people liked it

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
3,018 people liked it

"I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart - I've left it with you."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: edward-s-note-to-bella, love-notes
2,681 people liked it

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
1,765 people liked it

"I'm here . . . which roughly translated means I would rather die than stay away from you. I'm an idiot."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: love
1,664 people liked it

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: death, love, movies
1,165 people liked it

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

1,118 people liked it

"Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: love
1,016 people liked it

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

900 people liked it

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: girls, love
828 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,630 people liked it

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: opportunity, work
121 people liked it

"Quil: "You missed the party. Princess theme. She made me wear a crown, and then Emily suggested they all try out her new play makeup on me."
Jacob: "Wow, I'm really sorry I wasn't around to see that."
Quil: "Don't worry, Emily has pictures. Actually, I look pretty hot."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

112 people liked it

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
— Groucho Marx

77 people liked it

"She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened."
— Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition)

tags: romance
19 people liked it

"I held him close to me with my eyes closed, wondering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time it didn't."
— Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)

tags: hug, love-, sparks
26 people liked it

""A kiss is just a kiss until it happens to you A hug is just a hug until you do it with the one your thinking of A dream is just a dream until it comes true Love is just a word until it's proven to you""
— tanya maya

tags: hey, me, that-s
9 people liked it

"I'm sorry you're dying. I'm going to hug you now."
— Dr. Robert Chase

tags: humour
7 people liked it

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

185 people liked it

"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
— Charles Bukowski

87 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,193 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2,007 people liked it

"What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

202 people liked it

"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.'"
— George Carlin

tags: flame
140 people liked it

"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: love
130 people liked it

"The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter."
— Dave Barry

tags: football, humor, ice-fishing, ice-skating, skiing, snow-camping, snowboarding, sports
60 people liked it

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."
— Leo Buscaglia

tags: love
60 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. 9: The Kindly Ones)

tags: love
2,618 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,361 people liked it

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobodies worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

tags: music, sad
448 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)

477 people liked it

"What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead. Take mine. Take everything I have. "
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: jacob-black
333 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
278 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
286 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
202 people liked it

"and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: death, heart, love, mourning, suicide
173 people liked it

"After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?"
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heartbreak
157 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
158 people liked it

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"
— Anaïs Nin

148 people liked it

"You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out your heart is another story."
— (From the Movie Eternal Sunshine and Spotless Mind)

tags: inspirational, love
112 people liked it

"Edward - I wasn't about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive.
Bella - So let's say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly were you going to do about it?
Edward - Why is the plane crashing?
He was trying to hide a smile now.
Bella - The pilots are passed out drunk.
Edward - Easy. I'd fly the plane.
Of course. I pursed my lips and tried again.
Bella - Both engines have exploded and we're falling in a death spiral toward the earth.
Edward - I'd wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I'd run you back to the scene of the accident, and we'd stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history.
I stared at him wordlessly.
"What?" he whispered."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

tags: humor
1,428 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
146 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
101 people liked it

"Death should take me while I am in the mood."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Blithedale Romance)

tags: death, humor
74 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
83 people liked it

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