Oscar Wilde

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

Oscar Wilde

Stephenie Meyer

"I told you I'm not going anywhere. Don't be afraid. As long as it makes you happy, I'll be here."

Stephenie Meyer

Jane Austen

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."

Jane Austen

Stephenie Meyer

"A kiss like that should be illegal."

"I told you I'm not going anywhere. Don't be afraid. As long as it makes you happy, I'll be here."

"You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever."

Stephenie Meyer

Sarah Dessen

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens, accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment"

Sarah Dessen

Louis de Bernières

"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to make love every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."

Louis de Bernières

Marilyn Monroe

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."

"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"

"Who said nights were for sleep?"

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."

"If your gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."

"If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere."

"Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."

"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!"

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."

"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ... "

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend."

"Everyone is a star and deserves a chance to shine."

"Women who seek to be equal with mean lack ambition"

"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."

"All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. "

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

""The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space""

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

Marilyn Monroe

Isabel Allende

"Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars."

"When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity."

Isabel Allende

Paul Leppin

"She shuddered because she was seized--suddenly and almost hauntingly--by the knowledge that love was magic, more wonderful than all that had gone before, deep, painful, and inescapable..."

Paul Leppin

On love

"We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us."

Pat Conroy (Beach Music)

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

George Sand

"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Woody Allen

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

Nikki Giovanni

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

Anaïs Nin


"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."

Bertrand Russell

"Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love. "

Josephine Hart

"In vain have I struggled but it will not do, my feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you, how much I love and admire you."

Jane Austen

Mick Jagger

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need."

Mick Jagger

Aidan Chambers

"Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy."

Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)

Kate Chopin

"For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early teens, and later as a young woman. The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability. The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded."

Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

Danica Cooper

"Infatuation is blind, love is seeing all of someone and loving them anyway."

Danica Cooper

Matthew Sturges

"It’s the longing that ultimately undoes you. When it finds you, it gnaws at your bones and tugs at your chest. It fills you up inside and makes you dream dreams and then it drowns you. It keeps you in bed, clutching at your sheets while the world goes on outside. It smells like old leaves and cigarette smoke, mixed with the scent of far-off places you will hear of, but never see. It’s the gloss on a lover’s lips the moment you realize you will never actually kiss them. It is the bittersweet, unrequited love of creation and it will break your heart again and again and again. If you know the longing the way I do, then these words are redundant. We understand each other perfectly, you and I."

Matthew Sturges

Marilyn French

"Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire."

Marilyn French

e.e cummings

"i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(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 stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"

e.e. cummings

Kim Edwards

"...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood."

Kim Edwards

Charlotte Brontë

"Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go ... with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed ... "

Charlotte Brontë

Orson Scott-Card

"To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you."

Orson Scott-Card