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#1

“Love me like Saturday night, like three glasses of champagne, like the room is spinning, like you're drunk on my love.”
― C.J. Carlyon

tags: champagne, drunk, first-love, happiness, love, love-quotes, romance, romantic, saturday, saturday-night, true-love, weekend

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#2

“She was the wish of his life. He didn’t know how else to say it. He didn’t even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: first-love, heartache, heartbreak, longing, love, love-hurts, romance, romance-novels, romantic, the-cherry-house, true-love, wish, yearning

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#3

“He loved her like the first time every time. Like the first time all the time.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: cherry, falling-in-love, first-love, first-time, love, romance, romance-book-quotes, romance-novels, the-cherry-house

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#4

“It is more than love, barely less than madness. It’s never close enough.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: first-love, first-time, forever, love, madness, romance, romance-book-quotes, romance-novels, romantic, the-cherry-house, true-love

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#5

“The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: dreamy, forever-young, love, love-quotes, seasons, summer, summer-love, summer-nights

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#6

“I’m jealous of the cherries that have been in your mouth,” he said, “that they get to make your lips so red.” He kissed her softly, teasing her tongue with his, a lustful wet caress, and Austen was suspended in air. “I’m jealous of every single day before today that I didn’t get to spend with you.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: cherries, first-love, forever, forever-love, jealous, jealousy, kiss, lips, love, romance-novel, romance-novels, romantic, true-love

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#7

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: happiness, love

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#8

“You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of
the next moment. All the immense
images in me -- the far-off, deeply-felt landscape,
cities, towers, and bridges, and un-
suspected turns in the path,
and those powerful lands that were once
pulsing with the life of the gods--
all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.

You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house-- , and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced
upon,--
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back
my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same
bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening... ”
― rainer maria rilke

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#9

“We were together. I forget the rest.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: cute, euphoria, nostalgic

2430 likes

#10

“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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#11

“...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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#12

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

tags: fruits-basket, haru, try

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#13

“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything you had
and how I
offered you what was left of
me,
and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.”
― Charles Bukowski

3364 likes

#14

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

1870 likes

#15

“When she remembered a summer it would be this one. When she remembered love it would be his.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: first-love, love-quotes, memories, remember, romance, summer, summer-love, true-love

7 likes

#16

“Lips that have tasted the salt of tears always give the sweetest kiss.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: cry, don-t-cry, first-love, heartache, heartbreak, kiss, love, love-story, romance, romance-novels, romantic, tears, true-love

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#17

“He didn't pick her; you don't choose who you fall in love with any more than you choose the shape of your bones.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: first-love, forever, forever-love, love, love-story, romance, romance-novels, romantic, romantic-quotes, true-love

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#18

“He kisses me like he misses me, even before I have to go.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: first-love, kiss, kissing-quotes, love, love-quotes, love-story, missing-you, romance, romance-novels, romantic, romantic-quotes, true-love

11 likes

#19

“I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul ... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.”
― Klaus Kinski

tags: price, submission

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#20

“Sometimes too late is just in time.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: don-t-give-up, don-t-give-up-quotes, falling-in-love, falling-in-love-quotes, inspirational-quotes, just-in-time, love, love-quotes, motivational-inspirational, motivational-quotes, never-too-late, never-too-late-quotes, never-too-old, romance, time, yes-you-can, you-can-do-it

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#21

“I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: first-love, heartache, heartbreak, jealous, jealousy, love, love-hurts, love-story, romance, romance-novels, romantic, true-love

16 likes

#22

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

3727 likes

#23

“I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: love, passion, romance

23 likes

#24

“... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are
pouring slowly toward a curve and around it
through something dark and soft, and we are bound to
each other.”
― Sharon Olds

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#25

“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
― Nora Ephron

tags: autumn, fall, new-york-city

500 likes

#26

“french kisses
french fries
him
tonight”
― C.J. Carlyon

tags: falling-in-love, french-fries, french-kisses, fries, kiss, kisses, love, love-quotes, tonight, young-love, young-lovers

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#27

“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”
― Julio Cortazar

214 likes

#28

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#29

“I still think about you at night
you come back to me with the stars.”
― C.J. Carlyon

tags: come-back-to-me, forever-love, love, love-quotes, memories, memories-quotes, night, night-quotes, star-quotes, stars, unforgettable

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#30

“Just remember that people who are known for their looks are rarely known for anything else.”
― C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

tags: advice, appearance, appearances, be-yourself, be-yourself-quotes, beauty, beauty-quotes, heart, looks, looks-can-be-decieving, looks-don-t-matter, love, moms-advice, moms-saying, remember, romance, romantic-fiction, wisdom, wise

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