Lovers Quotes - Page 13

• An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

  E. M. Forster

  Husband, And Love, Might

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.151, 谷月社

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• There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

  Cyril Connolly

  Hurt, Pain, Hate

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• I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

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• Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.

  Bob Dylan

  Baby, Boss, Frost

  Song: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

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• We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Heart, Wine

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• Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

  Theophile Gautier

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

  Tom Stoppard

  Passion, Way, Distinction

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.

  Christine Feehan

  Mother, Children, Night

  Christine Feehan (2003). “Shadow Game”, p.118, Penguin

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• I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.

  Helene Hanff

  Book, Leaving, Sprinkles

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• Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Lying, Simple, Cities

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• Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Beloved, Without Love

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• When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at the end of your rope, panicked, alone, and losing your mind, you know you'd give anything to make your problems go away. Then, desperate and eager, you will come to Unicorn Lane, seeking salvation in its magics and secrets. You'll do anything, pay any price. Unicorn Lane will take you in, shroud you in its power, fix your problems, and exact its price. And then you will learn what 'anything' really means.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mean, Giving, Magic

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.34, Penguin

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• It...is for me?" "Aye. So what say you, lover mine.

  J.R. Ward

  Mines

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.342, Penguin

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• If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Accomplishment, Lasting Impressions

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.152, Macmillan

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• I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me.

  Maya Banks

  Men, Please Me, Touching

  Leanne Banks, Catherine Mann, Sara Orwig, Olivia Gates, Katherine Garbera (2009). “One-Click Buy: May 2009 Silhouette Desire: Billionaire Extraordinaire\Propositioned Into a Foreign Affair\Montana Mistress\The Once and Future Prince\The Moretti Arrangement\The Tycoon's Rebel Bride”, p.547, Silhouette

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• ..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

  Sarah MacLean

  Men, Hesitation, Wanted

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• If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

  Richard Brautigan

  Two, Clothes, Together

  Richard Brautigan, “Romeo And Juliet”

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• Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

  Margaret George

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan

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• In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Blue, Hands, Names

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.150, A&C Black

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• You should always judge a book by its lovers.

  Ashok K. Banker

  Book, Judging, Should

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• It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Night, Names

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

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• When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

  David Levithan

  Ideas, Numbers, Principles

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• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, Mean, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

  Virginia Woolf

  Two, People, Details

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1260, Delphi Classics

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• Death is my lover and he wants to move in.

  Sarah Kane

  Moving, Want, My Lover

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.180, A&C Black

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