#love

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #julian #lauren-oliver #lena #requiem

It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#lindsay #lost-love #love #yearning #love

...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#hatred #love #relationships #love

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#love #truth #love

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward #love #midnight-sun #love

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#reality #sacrifice #selflessness #well-being #love

Love you,” Xavier said just before he drifted back to sleep. “Love you more,” I said playfully. “Not a chance,” Xavier said, fully awake now. “I’m bigger, I can contain more love.” “I’m smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.” Xavier laughed. “That argument makes no sense. Overruled.” “I’m just basing it on how much I miss you when you’re not around,” I countered. “How can you possibly know how much I miss you ?” he said. “Have you got some sort of built-in miss-o-meter that can give us a reading?” “I’m a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#love #love

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#love

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#hurt #love #love

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson ↗

— Taylor Swift

#quote #taylor-swift #love