To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
James Buchan
Related You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals wi... RUTH REICHL There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... GRAEME SIMSION Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of... DANIEL YANEZ They tell us the greatest love story is how water fell in love with fire. Or how satan fell in love ... KAMAND KOJOURI You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. NICHOLAS SPARKS I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature e... ANTHONY MARRA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They... KIRSTEN DUNST Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that... C. JOYBELL C. ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love. The first thing you ... CARLA BUCKLEY Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w... TOM ALTHOUSE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an esca... DIANA GALBADON In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I ... GARTH NIX There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bas... DYLAN MORAN It was the love of love,the love that swallows up all else,a grateful love,a love of nature, of peop... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, al... C. JOYBELL C. Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond. ANGELICA HOPES Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu... DORIS J TORRES Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedent... CAROLINE GEORGE Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK If i thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac... MARGARET ATWOOD After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy? EMILY GIFFIN I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thin... NICOLE LYONS We want to play with the fact that she's still in love with him, but she knows it's a disaster and h... DAVID SHORE I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make ... MORGAN WOOTTEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli... C. JOYBELL C. A lot of people fall in love because you're sharing your body with someone. And sometimes you ge... JESSICA WHITE From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end. JENNIFER HARRISON Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Mass is not proportional to volume. A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower peta... KIM IN-YOOK, “THE PHYSICS OF LOVE” I never knew what real love was. I knew nothing about it. I saw it from time to time, I just never k... SHELLIE PALMER Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That... CLAUDIA GRAY You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time... KIRSTEN DUNST Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The first thing I fell in love with would have to be my mothers breast milk. Food for life. Then I f... NERISSA IRVING I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with ... NATASHA TSAKOS The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the lov... C. JOYBELL C. We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose dar... C. JOYBELL C. These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a... AVIJEET DAS I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a no... DAVID BENIOFF I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creati... JOHN WELLS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I wanted to take care of him, have him move in, but he said he was heading back south. I fell in lov... WINONA RYDER Love doesn't need to last a lifetime for it to be real. You can't judge the quality of a love by the... KRYSTAL SUTHERLAND The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever ne... CEELO GREEN When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN but my dad said it was no excuse. "But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much. STEPHEN CHBOSKY When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. MADELINE MILLER Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el. GIOVANNI ARPINO Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi? GIOVANNI ARPINO I just wouldn’t want to hook up with a guy unless I really, really like him, and in my experi... DARIA SNADOWSKY Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Lovi... DARIA SNADOWSKY One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you. V.E. SCHWAB It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it ... WASHINGTON IRVING given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that whi... MILAN KUNDERA I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, wit... GAVIN O'CONNOR If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other... PARUL WADHWA I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... JULIANNE MOORE The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love w... PATRICK NESS There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they... AVIJEET DAS You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, l... AVIJEET DAS Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love wha... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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