Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster. Just like me. —Michelle Hodkin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. —Billy, age four From Breathing Together, edited by Richard Kehl More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know those people you could go years without seeing and when you finally get together it felt like no time had passed? Hold on to those people. —Brittainy C. Cherry in Loving Mr. Daniels More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would've done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that's why I'm sick of love. —Gregory David Roberts in Shantaram More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, beat differently. —Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You learn a lot when you know no one else is going to do things for you. —Megan Crewe in The Way We Fall More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. —Robert Byrne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. —Nicolas Chamfort More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. —Paul Klee More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Isn't it amazing how life is one thing, and then, in an instant, it becomes something else? —Gayle Forman in If I Stay More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't know what would have happened. But whatever would have happened wasn't supposed to happen. —Taylor Jenkins Reid in Maybe in Another Life More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is too short to waste time on people who don't lift you up, who don't inspire you—they'll eventually drain you. —Katie Kacvinsky in First Comes Love More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. —Will Rogers More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. —Dan Quayle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email