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she allowed herself to dwell on the cause of this strange, apprehensive exultation that she sensed f...

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When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everyth...

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Randy PauschThe Last Lecture

I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain...

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Richard BrautiganLoading Mercury With a Pitchfork

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a p...

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If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take ...

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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...

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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...

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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...

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Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

Everything in life had its phases, and if you were smart, you learned to appreciate them all. What r...

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For you, I wish for second chances

I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movemen...

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I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

I said, somewhat confused, “What’s the problem?”[Kristy] rolled her eyes. Beside her, Monica said, “...

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I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the ...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

You must be a rich man," she said. "Not much of a warrior, though. You keep letting me sneak up on y...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of and that had come down to her had set a tra...

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My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble...

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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

I don't care so much about what you can stand or what you can manage as I do about what you like and...

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Several times we had been very close to "it," but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew ba...

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Bella: I love you. Edward: You are my life now.

We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection....

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Stephen VizinczeyIn Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of András Vajda

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

That's certainly a problem. But that's not what I was thinking of. It's just that you are so soft, s...

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And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him

She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.

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Steven SpielbergClose Encounters of the Third Kind

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.“I don't know. I don't think I c...

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No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway.""To make sure Katniss is still here?...

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And here, finally here in this place, in these circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Sn...

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Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...

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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour.""Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you...

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Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever ...

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You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...

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Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.

I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making an...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him ...

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Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

And one day Amber takes her troll’s dinner down to the cave and finds him—” Rock waved his hands in ...

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Haven’t you got any romance in your soul?’ said Magrat plaintively. ‘No,’ said Granny. 'I ain’t. And...

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She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seeme...

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I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfaste...

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You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

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Thomas HardyA Pair of Blue Eyes

This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately ...

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He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than ...

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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much o...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.

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Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree

Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other wit...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows pass...

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because being with you makes perfect sense

But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day ...

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Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker

Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought ther...

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Tom StoppardThe Invention of Love

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously...

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Tom WaitsThe Early Years: The Lyrics

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very lit...

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You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It...

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She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had de...

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the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her sid...

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.But he never liked anyone who--our friends...

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I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of he...

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The heart has its own reasons that reason can't understand.

If you want romance, fuck a journalist.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He woul...

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What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time...

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My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.

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Walter ScottThe Lady of the Lake

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating ...

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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

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Wole SoyinkaThe Lion and the Jewel

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lo...

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Émile ZolaThe Fortune of the Rougons

You are safe with me.""I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more o...

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How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skie...

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all ot...

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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth lik...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that the...

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Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of ...

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Agatha ChristieThe Secret Adversary

We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults ...

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Ajahn BrahmWho Ordered This Truckload of Dung?: Inspiring Stories for Welcoming Life's Difficulties

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down perm...

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… I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stra...

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