If I had ever had any doubt about whether I would love and admire her eternally, that doubt disappeared at that very moment.

Or make her blushing cheek a pillow for thy head

When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really seen or felt it. So I would try and catch it in jars. When that failed, I captured jars...

"When the time is right, you might consider telling Theo that you've been in love with him for a long time now." Lucy sniffed. "And I'm supposed to do this without Milk Duds? As if!"

I want to lay my kill at your feet.

I'm here because she's here, and she belongs to me. ~Rephaim

His daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now,...

I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Pierre made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make...

You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.

Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real...

I'm just going to try to save the woman I love, and that's as good as the world to me.

I would do anything to make you happy because no one had ever smelled like you did. It was candy canes and pinecones. It was epic and awesome. and it was home.

The second message is one that I have saved for weeks. It's Otter, and he simply says, I love you.

So he pressed his forehead against mine and breathed me in and there was that sun, okay? That sun between us, that bond that burned and burned and burned because he'd given it to me. Because he'd...

That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary...

I love you, he told her. Sweet joy rushed through her. But there was a distinct smugness about his words. He'd sensed her feelings in return, and was pleased with himself for doing so. Turns out I...

Books loved everyone who opened them, offered comfort and friendship, and asked for nothing in return, never leaving, not even when mistreated.

... and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions - - it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make...

Losing through you what seemed myself, I find myself unimaginably mine, beyond sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my...

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide and this is the wonder that's keeping the...

He reaches over a goat that's come between us and grabs my hand. "Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before. I think...

For a time you can be alone and doing fine and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived...

Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well.

Equality today means sameness rather than oneness.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are...

And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without....

I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the...

I'm twenty years too old, and I'm pretty sure I've got the wrong plumbing, but I like that gal.

We are never through with the requirement for acceptance. This isn't a curse limited to the inadequate and the weak. Insecurity may even be a peculiar sign of well-being. It means we haven't allowed...