"I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back."
Karen Joy Fowler
"The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism."
Henri Barbusse
"Mile's fingers pressed into the small of my back. 'Basorexia,' he mumbled.'Gesundheit.'He laughed. 'It's an overwhelming desire to kiss.'I thought you weren't good at figuring out what you felt.'I'm probably using the word in the wrong context. But I'm pretty sure that's what this is."
Francesca Zappia
"Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them."
Radhe Maa
"He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be."
Colin Clark
"Simply give to yourselves that which you need – which is love and appreciation without judgment."
Réné Gaudette
"And you’re a tall drink of water because we’re so fucking thirsty."
Andrew Faulkner
"If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young."
Caroline Kepnes
"Young ladies ... Who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient 'to make the pot boil' - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food."
Frederick Marryat
"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."
Joseph Addison
"Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness,' I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. 'We're getting married, and that's that."
Rae Carson
"All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarcely dare say it -- but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?"
Thornton Wilder
"May we embrace one another with love, a smile and a warm hug?"
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you."
Kamand Kojouri
"I’d rather straighten my pubes with a flat iron than go on another blind date."
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