Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. BaldwinRead
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity.
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life
A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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