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When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often con...

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Jean grinned down at her, and she handed him something in a small silk bag.'What's this?''Lock of my...

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Scott LynchRed Seas Under Red Skies

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. T...

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had e...

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Stephen KingThe Drawing of the Three

Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together."I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own word...

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You seem more...optimistic than usual," I observed. "I haven't seen you like this before.""Isn't it ...

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I hate you for making me want you so much.(Edward)

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think...

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My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ...

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Stacks on deckPatrone on iceAnd we can pop bottles all nightAnd baby you could have whatever you lik...

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There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular ...

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Tamora PierceThe Woman Who Rides Like a Man

I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're her...

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You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.'Gabriel...

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The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else whe...

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It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but ...

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Chose your love, love your choice.

To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an e...

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You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there...

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The...

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Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. D...

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I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.

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Veronica RothFree Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt li...

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I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the...

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Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city...

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Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and ca...

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He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, t...

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He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, though not necessarily rare, tr...

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My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of ...

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...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very t...

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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of r...

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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because withi...

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Yukio MishimaConfessions of a Mask

The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually get...

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Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna ...

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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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There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there...

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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by lif...

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the...

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Once taken by her, you glowedAnd you drank her poisons, content. Because all the stars seemed to gro...

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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly sup...

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I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.'Let's go to...

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He was perfect, was how she'd put it to herself. And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shin...

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The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make t...

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Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with...

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All the romantic lore of our culture has told us when we find true love with a partner it will conti...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart e...

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In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for year...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.We find an ho...

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Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, ...

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I found the words at the back of a drawer,wrapped in black cloth, like three ringsslipped from a dea...

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Give me, you said, on our very first night,the forest. I rose from the bed and went out,and when I r...

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I found the words at the back of a drawer,wrapped in black cloth, like three ringsslipped from a dea...

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When did your namechange from a proper nounto a charm?Its three vowelslike jewelson the thread of my...

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I tend the mobile nowlike an injured birdWe text, text, textour significant words.I re-read your fir...

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Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, f...

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Jace stood up, knocking his chair back violently. "You are not taking Clary to the Seelie Court with...

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Yes...and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll win...

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There's no pretending, I love you and I will love you until the day i die and if there's a life afte...

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It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.

One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter to his dictation, he came and ben...

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, ...

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Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The S...

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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover ...

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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to...

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Phillip Murray and Wanda Saxton meet in the last scene under the rainy awning, their wrong wife and ...

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I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Islan...

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I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here...

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There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cotta...

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I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint.

In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan A...

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You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you.

I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye lik...

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Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart."Come to me. Cover me. Shelter ...

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Diana GabaldonThe Fiery Cross

Much more. We're joined at the heart.""Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky.""Too ...

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Diane AckermanOne Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke

And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by roman...

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I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

... (lady i willtouch you with my mind.) Touchyou, that is all/lightly and you utterly will becomewi...

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You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.

I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with t...

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Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, an...

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And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least ...

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There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and...

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Moon, that against the lintel of the westYour forehead lean until the gate be swung,Longing to leave...

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We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of...

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When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which wa...

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our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

Love means never having to say you're sorry.