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“I'll eat you up I love you so.”
― Maurice Sendak

“But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose— What is gone is gone.”
― Anonymous

“The eyes would never be joyous, any more than they could ever turn green or blue, but they too had wakened in the earth.”
― Anonymous

“Then she would run until morning to ease the ache; swifter than rain, swift as loss, racing to catch up with the time when she had known nothing at all but the sweetness of being herself.”
― Anonymous

“for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain.”
― Thomas Malory, Le Mort d'Arthur, Volume 1

“To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
― Mae West

“I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”
― Russell Brand

“Hate to sound sleazy,
but tease me,
I don't want it if it's that easy”
― Tupac Shakur

“Blind is he who will not see!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Even the best die suddenly on the battlefield. Death is death.”
― Anonymous

“If she were his woman, he’d never allow it. He’d never let her out of his sight for fear something bad could happen to her. He’d protect her day and night.”
― Tina Folsom, Venice Vampyr

“Civilization gets too large, it finds a way to destroy itself.”
― Anonymous

“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

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules. You must play by them, or you will surely die by them.”
― Anonymous

“we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings.”
― Anonymous

“religion, like all things of a civilized, long-settled people, was intricate and complex and had lost most of the pristine essence in a maze of formulas and rituals.”
― Anonymous

“The moment of the kiss could have been no longer than a breath’s space, but to her it was timeless.”
― Anonymous

“if you have not strength, there are three things which will serve as well: deceit, surprise and speed.”
― Anonymous

“A new skill is another hedge against Fate’s whimsy.”
― Anonymous