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Love Quotes From Books
“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.” – Jack Kerouac (On The Road)
“…a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved” – Kurt Vonnegut (Cat’s Cradle)
“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” – Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” – W. Somerset Maugham (A Writer’s Notebook)
“…the law of attraction is the most powerful law in the Universe.” – Rhonda Byrne (The Secret)
“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now I am at the liberty to do so, that my heart is and will always be yours.” – Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, that laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” – Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)
“That is all to be forgot. Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.” – Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
“I am the happiest creature in all the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” – Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
“You’re getting damned romantic.” “No, bored.” – Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
“He calls her Circe,” Mike said. “He claims she turns men into swine.” – Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
“When you’re older you’ll know what people who love suffer…The agony. It’s better to be cold and young than to love” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is The Night)
“I’m afraid I’m in love with you,’ said Dick, ‘and that’s not the best thing that could happen” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is The Night)
“It excited him, too, that many men had already loved … Daisy – it increased her value in his eyes. He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
“”It was a strange coincidence,” I said.
“But it … wasn’t a coincidence at all.”
“Why not?”
“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
“She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” – F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“You are exactly my brand of heroin.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“When I said I didn’t want you, it was the blackest kind of blashphemy.” – Stephanie Meyer (New Moon)
“I’ll never criticize Romeo again.” – Stephanie Meyer (New Moon)
“I can’t live in a world where you don’t exist.” – Stephanie Meyer (New Moon)
“The worst the Volturi can do is kill me. You can leave me.” – Stephanie Meyer (New Moon)
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“You are exactly my brand of heroin.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“Good luck tended to avoid me.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“My mother is part albino.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I’ve never seen him act like that.” Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“That’s Edward. He’s gorgeous, of course, but don’t waste your time. He doesn’t date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him.” – Stephanie Meyer (Twilight)
“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“A light through yonder window breaks. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here
Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog
And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” – William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright.” – William Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet)
“If it be love indeed, tell me how much.” – William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
“There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” – William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
“O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!” – William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
“I’ the east my pleasure lies.” – William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
“Give me some music – music, moody food of us that trade in love.” – William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.” – William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” – William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
“Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,…Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.” – William Shakespeare (Othello)
“Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.” – William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)
“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.” – William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)
“This is the way to kill a wife with kindness.” – William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)
“I am ashamed that women are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace.” – William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” – William Shakespeare (All’s Well That Ends Well)
“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.” – William Shakespeare (All’s Well That Ends Well)
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.” – William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
“‘Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on:
Lady, you are the cruell’st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.” – William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
“I may command where I adore.” – William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” – William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
“Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
“In my youth thou wast as true a lover as ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
“Dear shepherd, now I find thy saw of might: ‘Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?’” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
“Down on your knees, and thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
“No sooner met but they looked;
no sooner looked but they loved;
no sooner loved but they sighed;
no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;
no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
“Hope is a waking dream.” – William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
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