You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I'd dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the...

I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this

Don't even think about dying and leaving me infinitely orphaned.

She had had to weave love with memories...

Everyone regrets later the love messages they wrote.

Cool air and hard work are a sure cure for the foolishness of love

Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake—really suffering—I learned that love, especially the...

She had this laugh. I swear it's why I married her, Laila, for that laugh! It bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.

In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love's illusion. And...

Well it is said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.

How sweet are the days of love! And how delightful are its dreams! And how bitter are the nights of sorrow, and how numerous are their fears!

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have...

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that...

both of us hope and trust that our daughters, whether married or single, will be the pride and comfort of our lives.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

The ones we love most are those we trust least.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

You changed what was between us. You took the step, and I didn't see it coming. I can't be sorry for that when I'm so damn grateful for it. I don't know if you were always the one, but I know you're...

In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you.

Your author has found love to be the full trip, emotionally speaking; the grand tour: fall in love, visit both Heaven and Hell for the price of one.

His examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning... to conclude once again...

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

I love you, Matt said.I love you, too, Maria replied. I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it.If I have a soul, I'll go with you, promised Matt.

I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. For I will not turn tail and run the other way as he did, oh no. I will find you, and I will drag...

Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it-he's a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting.

... continue to love each other, something I discover is not an automatic state but must be worked at, like an ever-changing tactical problem, though I would never describe it that way to my beloved

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!