“for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects that can really be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
“I hope that one day, I can again believe in you and sing a song for you while holding you in my… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
“I imagined/felt their palms sweating, their sweat mingling, mutually fertilized, and dripping to the ground, where it gave birth to a scolopendra,… — Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis Copy Share Image
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I like you. But I have no idea how you feel about me. And if we became lovers how different would our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while… — Thoinot Arbeau Copy Share Image
“I don’t like seeing you hit.” “Well, to be quite honest, I don’t like being hit unless it’s by you.” As soon… — Tammy Blackwell Copy Share Image
“How stupid, I thought dreamily, to have ever thought I could give this up. Not just the kissing, although, as Archer’s hands… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“If I could read people’s minds, I would not invade your privacy. Instead I would eavesdrop on every passerby. tattoo my arms… — Jared Singer Copy Share Image
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long.… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I didn’t even know you looked at him like that.” “Well, things feel more forbidden when you keep them secret, don’t they,… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I find running life quite hard and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I… — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when… — Concha Buika Copy Share Image
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
