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“Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war?”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it’s a sin–I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb. I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”
― Salma Deera

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
― richard siken

“You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn’t want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Do I dazzle you?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“And, by the way, I adore you.... in frightening, dangerous ways.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“So, Bella, I was following your scent through the woods after I'd left your room where I was watching you sleep...Yes that would be quite the ice breaker.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried.
Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you.
Keep it light.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]