Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.
I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.
"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."
There is always some madness in love.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart.
We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.
So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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