The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots?… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“How many lovers?” He could have given her a straight answer. Dozens. Or, more specifically: Thirty-seven. Thirty-seven, if you counted mutual versions… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“In this world . . . It's Heaven when: The French are chefs The British are police The Germans are engineers The… — Hidekaz Himaruya Copy Share Image
“Relationships are never complicated. You’re either together or you’re not. If someone says it’s complicated, it really just means someone’s killing time… — Teresa Lo Copy Share Image
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
The Greeks believed that once there were no male and female, that all souls were one. Then the souls were torn apart,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
So lovers of life, don't keep your hopes up high. Why? Cause it's just a matter of time before it's your turn… — Kirk Jones Copy Share Image
All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator… — Adrian Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his… — Rachel A. Marks Copy Share Image
“And though they may be miles apart and indeed have never met, yet they have never been separate, because they are lovers… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I will love you as a thief loves a gallery and as a crow loves a murder, as a cloud loves bats… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Love is always master everywhere. It shapes the soul, the heart, and the mind wherever it exists. What matters is not the… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“Love had a thousand shapes. There might be lovers whose gift it was to choose out the elements of things and place… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Morgan closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “Maybe you’re right,” she sighed, “We should probably wait.” Owen drew back, and… — Kristen Casey Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he… — John Barth Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a diehard animal lover - I've always loved animals - but it was just one of those trips that I felt… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
“It’s a duress I’ll never regret succumbing to,” he murmured as his hands caressed the soft skin of her shoulders. “It gave… — Monica Burns Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
If a girl Luvs me her parents won't Lyk me wen they see me they wil ask from wich planet he is… — Raveen Copy Share Image
God is not about using the mighty but the willing. He is not into using amazing people, just ones who prepared to… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
“My heart is torn in tiny pieces scattered throughout the years. I exist in several places because you carry those pieces with… — Moryah DeMott Copy Share Image
“But my heart is an old house (the kind my mother grew up in) hell to heat and cool and faulty in… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that person, but with… — Fiona Zedde Copy Share Image
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable… — William James Copy Share Image
