Romance

"Everyone thinks to the extent of their depravity.” #Henrietta Ledyanova, #Fateful Italian Passion"

"Never, baby. Between us, the sun is never going down."

". She was beautiful, and her temperament seemed much better than his first wife did. Arman stopped in the middle of the Windsor knot on his tie. Who was he trying to kid, he thought. An enraged rabid pit bull in heat would have had a better temperament then his first wife."

"I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love."

"You've got drama too' 'Doesn't everyone' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess."

"The big-ass hole, all of the wreckage and mess. I'd done that. Me,"

"He became so gloomy that she asked him, at last, if he was worried about anything. He assured her, instantly, that he was the happiest man in the world. And he was. At times he was almost bewildered by his own bliss in being there, with Tony, so terribly dear, beside him; really his own for the rest of his life. It was not her fault if the insatiable sorrows of an unequal love tormented him, the hungry demand for more, for a fuller return, for a feeling which it was not in her nature to give. As she leaned forward, absorbed in the passions staged beneath her, he felt suddenly that their box contained just himself and a wraith, a ghost; as if the real Antonia, whom he loved, was an imagined woman living only in his sad fancy."

"The letter had been crumpled up and tossed onto the grate. It had burned all around the edges, so the names at the top and bottom had gone up in smoke. But there was enough of the bold black scrawl to reveal that it had indeed been a love letter. And as Hannah read the singed and half-destroyed parchment, she was forced to turn away to hide the trembling of her"

"We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves..."

"Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without..."

"Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth..."

"I thought I would die without you, in reality I was reborn..."

"Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them."

"If you want to know the truth,” he says, leaning forward like he’s getting ready to tell a really good story, “it has to do with Kelsey. And the biggest lie of all.”And that’s when I realize the thing about the truth. It always comes out, no matter what you do."

"Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation."

"I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations."

"We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person"

"We all know I’m marrying you, as soon as you get over your thing with dog tags and realize a stethoscope is way sexier, anyway.” - Tanner"

"Never expect anything less than devotion from someone who has claim on your heart."

"She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of beauty and virtue so incredibly combined. And all perhaps wrenched from my grasp because of a war I had no real interest in nor knowledge of. In that moment I did not care who won, if only it would end and I could be with her. I would accept the whole responsibility of defeat if I had to, if only it meant a life with her by my side. I just wanted her. Needed her. As simply and clearly as one needs food and oxygen and light, I needed her in my life. And above us, flittering tranquilly in the trees above, the finches and skylarks continued to sing peacefully into the fading sun."