If I
Had a Flower
1
“I'm
in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus,"
I said.
"I
am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his
eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of
denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you,
and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is
inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all
our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only
earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
―
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
2
“I
am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts
and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name
will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and
to me, this has always been enough..”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
3
“Love
looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid
painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes
figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in
choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
4
“Love
is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
5
“There
is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion
of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
―
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
6
“People
think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a
true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding
you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change
your life.
A
true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because
they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate
forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal
another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A
soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show
you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get
in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your
life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
7
“You
don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact
that they're not.”
―
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
8
“Love
never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its
source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and
wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
―
Anais Nin
9
“If
you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
―
Marilyn Monroe
10
“We’re
all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose
weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually
satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
―
Robert Fulghum, True Love
11
“If
I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden
forever.”
―
Alfred Tennyson
12
“To
love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and
possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it
to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little
luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of
your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will
change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable,
irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
―
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
13
“The
real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling
into your eyes or just staring into space.”
―
Marilyn Monroe
14
“When
someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and
comfortable.”
―
Jess C. Scott, The Intern
15
“Dumbledore
watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape,
and his eyes were full of tears.
"After
all this time?"
"Always,"
said Snape.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
16
“I've
been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't
teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They
don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to
walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to
know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say
to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
17
“A
lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love
to matrimony in a moment.”
―
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
18
“To
die will be an awfully big adventure.”
―
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
19
“So
it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work
at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you,
forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
20
“I
love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in
secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
―
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
