Ned Parminter was in love. He assumed it must be love…

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The…

— Jean Rhys

The deceit in loving a woman sometimes, is that most women fall in love with assumed personality, but eventually live with their true character.

— Self

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”

— Arundhati Roy

“He's on the verge of it--we can tell. He is on the verge of finding that very hard truth--that it will never be complete,…

— David Levithan

“For the past year, Neil has assumed that love was like a liquid pouring into a vessel, and that the longer you loved, the…

— David Levithan

I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you…

— Mark Gatiss

“She had never before met a man who spoke of the world—of what it was, and how it came to be, or what he…

— Arundhati Roy

“what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”

— Arundhati Roy

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

— H. Emilie Cady

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

— Beth Moore

I love going to Columbia, Missouri. That is a really underrated campus. It shocked me when I went there because I really didn't know…

— Kirk Herbstreit

I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the…

— Karen Hawkins

Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

— Anonymous

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been…

— John Denver