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have you ever been in love with the idea of someone?
say there's someone in your life, and you know you can't be in
love with them, you don't really know them. maybe you know that you're not
really right for them. you know that whatever it is you're feeling is really
just an attraction towards an image of that person you've created in your mind..
From the movie The Vicious Kind

there is something about words. in expert hands, manipulated deftly,
they take you prisoner -wind themselves around your limbs like spider milk,
and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin,
enter your blood, numb your thoughts. inside you, they work their magic.
The Thirteen Tale

i learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long
as you please, and taking note of what you do not say. T.S. Eliot

when i like people immensely, i never tell their names to anyone. it is like
surrendering a part of them. i have grown to love secrecy. it seems to be the
one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us.
the commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

to be great, be whole; exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
be whole in everything. put all you are into the smallest thing you do.
the whole moon gleams in every pool. it rides so high. Fernando Pessoa

i postpone death by living, by suffering, by error,
by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin

it is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting,
and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
John Green, Paper Towns

your eyes were empty honey jars, crystalline and translucent, but filled
with some soft of transient, soft, corduroy warmth. April Gregory

i acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment,
endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts,
and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Alex Grey

instead of thinking that there was no future, all i did was plan for the future,
treating the present tense and all its tension like a lengthy, labored preamble
to a real life that awaited me somewhere, anywhere else but here.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

being listened to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world.
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

i was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allen Poe

desire is full of endless distances. Robert Hass

there comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust
someone enough to let them keep their secrets. Robert Brault

i believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really
good gets built when everything's easy. i believe that loss and emptiness and
confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom. Shauna Niequist

love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

one day, you realize that there are some people
you'll never see again. at least, not in the same way.
I Wrote This You: The Age At Which It Happens

imagine you could love me even if i am not the one you imagined
you'd love. it is all that i ask, all that i dream. Dark Raven

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i used to think i was the strangest person in the world but then i thought there
are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels
bizarre and  flawed in the same ways i do. i would imagine her, and imagine
that  she must be out  there thinking of me too. well, i hope that if you
are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true i'm here,
and i'm just as strange as you. Frida Kahlo

he closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciousness
and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where
creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all
things are possible. Christopher Paolini

the world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. the curve
of your lips rewrite history. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

every day i discover more and more beautiful things. it's enough to drive one mad.
i have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
Claude Monet

like the dragonfly alit on my fingertip, long red body throbbing with the
rhythm of an autumn morning, i ponder what in all this great world is next,
what is next, and then take flight into the heart of the sun. Dark Raven

he stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun,
yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. Leo Tolstoy

i exist. it is soft, so soft, so slow. and light: it seems as though
it suspends in the air. it moves. Jean-Paul Sartre

today you became a yesterday, when once you
were a tomorrow. I Wrote This For You

perhaps love is the process of leading you gently
back to yourself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

even i cannot put a finger on my own mind for it seems everywhere and
nowhere at once, even though the flesh sits in one place. Dark Raven

i meant the words that traced my lips - i love you.
Brittany Carey, Surviving You

slow down and enjoy life. it's not only the scenery you miss by going too
fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor

as i am rain, you are the rainbow. Mindy Halkins

the more images i gathered from the past, i said, the more unlikely it seemed to
me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about
it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if
not absurd, then appalling. W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

the moment when a kiss ends-it was like awakening reluctantly from sleep,
struggling drowsily against the glare of the morning sun as it struck
their eyelids, as they yearned to hold on to the fragment of unconsciousness
left to them. that is the moment when sleep is sweetest.
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

i have forgotten the sound of seasons passing, your
voice when you loved me. Michele

this kiss is a million kisses. this kiss is every kiss. our lips seem to press
together with the force of ten thousand hurricanes, and when his tongue
meets mine it feels like the softest electricity; a million-volt shock happening
in slow motion, one electron at a time, where each electron
is the size of the sun. Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

you are a still shot of lips on an eyelid, my eyes
remember you sweeter than i do. Hannah DeVaue

the taste of her flesh lingers on my lips and i am sent far down memory's
shaded alleys searching for the color of her eyes
and the light that was her smile. Dark Raven
 
eventually you will come to understand that love heals
everything, and love is all there is. Gary Zukav

how thin the distance made you. in your cheek one day, appeared the true
shape of your bone no longer padded. still your mind,alone, explored this
emptying intermediate state for what holds and rests
were hidden in it. Thom Gunn, Lament

love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only what you
are expecting to give - which is everything. what you will receive in
return varies. but it really has no connection with what you give.
you give because you love and cannot help giving.
Katharine Hepburn

never wanted to be anyone but myself, although figuring out who i was
was sometimes a problem. but in the end, i discovered that no one
could offer me any more than i could offer myself. Dark Raven

your skin: unfamiliar, beautiful, strange. Rose Vealina

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. Charles Bukowsk

i am all my flaws, mistakes, heartbreaks, and failures. do you love me still?
Tyler Knott Gregson

you have a heart of gold and i am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for
the only thing that has ever felt like home. Andrea Gibson, Staircase

to define is to limit. Oscar Wilde

keep love in your heart. a life without it is like a sunless
garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde

rest in reason; move in passion. Kahlil Gibran

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but more than that, my eyes were drawn to her perfect loveliness. i looked at her,
a stranger,and every other breath strained to force its way out. legends say that
we know her by her wings - the wings that only we can see - and because wanting
her kills every other desire of love. Shantaram, Gregory David Robert

she was rare, a perfect creation, a work of purest art. a delicate flower
that bloomed in the liquid light of the moon. a nature not of this world,
a personality like that of some biblical maiden, gracious and queenly.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings
real meaning to our everyday lives...but the love i mean is the fire that burns
inside us all, the inner warmth that prevents our souls from freezing in the
winters of despair. Bradley Travor Grieve, The Meaning Of Life

a strange and seeing time, the front steps of sleep.
John Steinbeck, The Winters Of Our Discontent

he moves toward her knowing he is about to spoil the way
they don't know each other. Jack Gilbert, Adults

we delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes
it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou

i hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something
you do not understand for someone you love. Jonathan Safran Foer

i wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected
to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world
around them. i realized this is how i am all day; for me, unlike other people,
there doesn't come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when
i suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. if it were
always breakfast, i would be fine. Peter Cameron

never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost
hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy
seldom heard of day. Virginia Woolf, Night And Day

i believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. made up of
 seconds and years and the no space between hands on skin. i cannot believe
how much goes on. i can't even cut out enough red
hearts to keep up. Sarah Mimnaugh

there is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything.
negative people find their walls. so never apologize for
your enthusiasm. never. ever. never. Ryan Adams

a wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted
to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.
when two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. they can stay together for
hours, even days. they begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such
is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it.
no eleven minutes for them. Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

i come to realize that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and
the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and stars. Dogen

who are we? we find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum
star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in
which there are far more galaxies than people. Carl Sagan

when you plant a tree every leaf that grows will tell you, what you sow
will bear fruit. so if you have any sense, my friend, don't plant anything but love.
you show your worth by what you seek. water flows to those who want purity;
wash your hands of all desires and come to the table of love. Rumi

yes, the physicality of language. the tongue married to the heart,
and emotions defined by flesh. Yusef Komunyakaa

the best way out, is always through. Robert Frost

nothing you love is lost. not really. things, people - they always go away
sooner or later. you can't hold them anymore than you can hold moonlight.
but if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they're still yours.
the only things you ever really have are the ones you hold
inside your heart. Bruce Coville

when i saw you, i fell in love and you smiled because you knew.
William Shakespeare

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you know, i always said the two driving forces in life are two feelings;
love and freedom. these two feelings are a compilation of everything,
and are exactly the same in every way, but one is with the world, and
the other is with a person.i always thought that freedom was what i wanted.
the whole world. but then i met you. and everyday i took a step closer to you,
and away from freedom. everyday i was more and more yours. then suddenly
i hit a half-point. and it was awful. i was confused. i was hitting everything bad.
but you were so beautiful. so i kept walking. pulled by you - your world.
every step from half-way became a familiar one. steps towards good feelings.
endless knowledge. endless growth. time within you. with you. this is me
telling you i chose you. i chose love. because a world not made by you and
me would never be enough for me. Aran Armutlu

the air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great,
that i thought i was in a dream. Jack Kerouac, On The Road

perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch
the year repeat its days. Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

i don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank

and still it is not enough to have memories. one must be able to forget them
when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until
they come again. for it is not yet the memories themselves. not until they
have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer
to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most
rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge

in which one are stars brighter than they are. when we have come to this decision.
we mention many thousands of buds. and when i close my eyes i see them.
Gertrude Stein, Idem The Same

sometimes at night in bed i dream, dream of all my life could be and
all i could do.  i think about my future and the possibilities that lay
before me. there is always a moment in this thought. a moment where
i realize that in order to do it all, in order to really love ad not merely exist,
i cannot go on living the way i have done. i must fight it with all my strength.
Lucy Sparrow

when i was in love i hardly thought of myself; i thought of her and how
beautiful she looked and whether or not she was cold and how i could
make her laugh. it was wonderful because i forgot my own problems.
i owned her problems instead, and her problems seemed
romantic and beautiful. Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz

fame or integrity: which one is more important? money or happiness:
which is more valuable?success or failure: which is more destructive?
if you look at others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled.
if your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself.
be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. when you realize
there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu




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i may sound old-fashioned, but i want to think all women should be treated
like i want my wife, daughters, and granddaughters to be treated. i notice today
that good manners—like standing up when a woman enters the room, helping
a woman with her coat, letting her enter an elevator first, taking her arm to
cross the street—are sometimes considered unnecessary or a throwback. they’re
habits i could never break, nor would i want to. i realize today a lot more women
are taking care of themselves than in the past, but no
woman is offended by politeness. Frank Sinatra

the past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it's
like the sliding surface of a deep river. then one sees through the
surface to the depths. in those moments i find one of my greatest satisfactions,
not that i am thinking of the past; but that it is then that i am living
most fully in the present. Virginia Woolf, Moments Of Being

every creative event that ever happened in the world was an interruption.
unexpected. unplanned for. the only people who ever get anyplace interesting
are the people who get lost. that's why the planets are so much better company
than the stars -they keep wandering back and forth across the sky and you never
know where you're going to find them. The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail

caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. but once
we get drunk on that love, whatever will be, will be. Rumi

if you want only one thing too much, it's likely to turn out a disappointment.
the only healthy way to live, as i see it, is to learn to like all
the little everyday things. Lonesome Dove

i will love the light for it shows me the way, yet i will endure the
darkness because it shows me the stars. Mandino

i am, and always will be, the optimist. the hoper of far-flung hopes,
and the dreamer of improbable dreams. Doctor Who, The Almost People

do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason,
no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin

i have to believe in a world outside my own mind. i have to believe that my
actions still have meaning, even if i cant remember them. i have to believe
that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. do i believe the
world's still there? is it still out there? yeah..we all need mirrors to
remind ourselves who we are. i'm no different.
From The Movie - Memento

of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. these artifacts.
memory cues. useless souvenirs. nothing you could auction.
the scars left from happiness. Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

i can't remember to forget you. From The Movie - Memento

we construct reality in our own image. our desires always multiply
as  our ideas do. Ugo Foscolo, The Last Letters Of Jacopo Ortis

i would like to be able to breathe - to be able to love her by memory or fidelity.
but my heart aches. i love you continuously, intensely. Albert Camus

why didn't i learn to treat everything like it was the last time?
my greatest regret was how much i believed in the future.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close