Romance

"On Valentine’s Day, we are reminded what our relationships could be like the other 364."

"I’m twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I’m the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all."

"When she bites my lips,I see stars dancing right next to the sun."

"Love starts when peace begins."

"When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person."

"What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn’t ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture."

"You see her for who she really is, past all the disillusions most people get tangled up in when they think they are falling in love. You accept her flaws, and you love her just as much because of them as you do in spite of them."

"I'll always choose you. Gabe Willoughby"

"Tallis is a beautiful and terrible thing. Fearsome and alluring. Just like the forest in many ways... but it's written all over that handsome, pale face of yours; you like her."

"She wasn't his girlfriend. She was his bubblegum girl--only fun until she lost her flavor."

"She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish."

"The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours."

"Authentic love is deciding to live on a one-way street where all the arrows point down the street and not a single one of them point back up to where I’m standing."

"Love Has a way of wilting Or blossoming At the strangest,Most unpredictable hour. This is how love is,An uncontrollable beast In the form of a flower."

"When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past."

"It was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really turned me on: I was all he could think of, as his lust got the better of"

"Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm, you were full of optimism for what it would be like in the field, and you couldn't wait to try it out. Except those first couple of nights out were usually awkward as you got used to it and it got used to you. Over time, the steel lost its brand-new gleam, and the hilt became stained, and maybe you nicked the shit out of the thing a couple of times. What you got in return, however, saved your life: Once the pair of you were well acquainted, it became such a part of you that it was an extension of your own arm. It protected you and gave you a means to protect your brothers; it provided you with the confidnece and the power to face whatever came out of the night; and wherever you went, it stayed with you, right over your heart, always there when you needed it. You had to keep the blade up, however. And rewrap the hilt from time to time. And double-check the w"

"You don't have to feel grateful in order to be grateful."

"My faith gives me the ability to say, whatever is next, I'm ready. If it is Hillary or Trump I am ready because they might sit on the desk but they do not sit on the throne."

"There is a throne up there and someone is sitting on it. It is not you, the economy or your government. My God is still on the throne and I shall not worry."