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“Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can only pray is strong enough to survive the rest.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“He slowly turned around. “What is love? In English.” I raised my brows. “Love, in English, is love?” “What is it in Spanish?” I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. “Amore?” He shook his head ever so slightly. “No. Love in Spanish is you.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“You can fall in love in a second,” she said with a snap of her fingers. “The heart has no regard for time.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Sometimes you are stuck being the person you are and not the person you were. Or could be.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Design your own universe, make your own stars, write your own stories, and create your own destiny.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“But I’m starting to think that most villains aren’t evil—they are just misunderstood. Or victims of that most manipulative force: love.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“One minute we were a memory in the making, and in the next we were just a memory. Something to haunt me for the rest of my life.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“You burn so brightly,” he said, his voice low and rough to raise the hair on my arms. “I would like to burn with you.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“I'm starting to think that most villains aren't evil - they are just misundertood.
Or victims of that manipulative force: Love.
Love causes war and causes death, breaks souls and breaks lives. It runs people into the ground, makes them behave like moronic, immoral beasts, before it dances off, leaving only destruction in its wake - hearts blown wide open for the whole world to see.
Love puts the blame on the poor souls who succumb to it.
Love, that ultimate villainess. She makes examples of us all.
And yet we still come back for more.
We keep playing the role she gives us.
For one more chance to feel alive.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Love, our love, had been a shooting star, burning in the darkness, unseen until it got too close, too bright and too quick to capture. It burned out, lost to the deep cold and darkness, to the brutality of space, the infinity above us and in the new emptiness inside of me.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“That was just existing. That was just chasing down the next day so I could feel it pass under me.” He placed his large hand over my heart. “You made me stop chasing the days. You made me hold onto them.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Take a seat,” I said. “I’m about to go all Nicolas Sparks on your ass.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn’t stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars —Gilbert Parker”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Sometimes you don't need everyone on your side, you only need a few.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“The stars may place us in each other's paths-I dare say that everyone here has been a victim of some sort of celestial fate. Perhaps we were all fated to meet, to be here with each other, but it is up to us to decide to shine or not. The stars are not unreachable. They are not untouchable. And they do not control us.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“You shine brighter than the sun"

"But even the sun goes away every night"

"But it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't replace. That is why we hang on to each day we are given.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“You and I, we were always a memory in the making.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“The heart had no regard for time, no regard for pain.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“He looks at you like... like you’re his favorite food.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“You are loney, but you say you like to be alone" I nodded. "I do. I prefer it. But... it doesn't mean I don't want someone to love me. It doesn't mean that I don't have a lot of love in me to give someone”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're idiots. We all deserve it. And if people get hurt along the way, that's life. We've all been hurt. Doesn't that make love more crucial to our lives?”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“You can’t fall in love in a week,” I told her heatedly. “You can fall in love in a second,” she said with a snap of her fingers. “The heart has no regard for time.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“His fingertips felt like whispers, telling my skin secrets.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“I love you because you are you. You’re a little bit crazy, and I find that more interesting than being normal. You’re passionate and I find that more fascinating than being calm. You’re curious and adventurous and sexual, and you’re full of life and you make me want to be a better man, to live louder, to bend and break all the damn rules.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Every family needs a black sheep to call them on their bullshit.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Dedication For anyone who has ever taken a chance on uncertainty”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“Any last minute advice?” She raised a brow. “Try not to fall in love with anyone,”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“I did not want to live a life with regrets. You only regretted the shit you didn’t do.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English
“You’re saying we can write our own destiny,” I said, feeling too jaded and stubborn in the moment to believe it.
“I am saying,” he said carefully, “that this is not the end of the story. Not the way I am writing it.”
Karina Halle, Love, in English

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