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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spon...

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her we...

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A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the ...

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person t...

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C'mon, Amory. Your romance is overYou don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole troubl...

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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the ...

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He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly incon...

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Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateu...

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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton,...

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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal ang...

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Françoise SaganBonjour tristesse

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn...

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Friedrich NietzscheThe Portable Nietzsche

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century ...

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He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to ...

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The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most o...

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If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from among those which live...

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I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.

Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle int...

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It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my th...

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I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before...

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You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell ...

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I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you a...

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Gertrude SteinThree Lives & Tender Buttons

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have...

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As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys wit...

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Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk...

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Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean...

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Gwendolyn BrooksThe Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...

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The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hi...

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Just at that moment, Lucilla happened to cross the lawn at a distance. At sight of her, I could not,...

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The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned ...

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Hannah ArendtThe Human Condition

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyway...

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When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anythi...

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Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South A...

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I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feat...

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But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

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I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in ...

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Who are you?" I asked."You know who I am," he replied. "I'm yours."~Clea / Sage, pg. 105

And empty words are evil.

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the ...

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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely...

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I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countl...

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Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that wo...

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What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away ...

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Italo CalvinoThe Baron in the Trees

I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they'r...

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Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

Ma è commovente, Severus» osservò Silente, serio.«Ti sei affezionato al ragazzo, dopotutto?»«A lui?»...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears.‘…then I declare you bonded f...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed t...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood hi...

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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flo...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuadin...

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Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner.

You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong ...

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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

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Jane AustenLove and Friendship

Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigad...

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t...

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Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you,and by those who resemble y...

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They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so ...

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But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, inste...

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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural s...

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She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her f...

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is t...

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I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pie...

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is ...

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young ...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossibl...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make som...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been as...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice