She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
– Edna O’Brien – Saints and Sinners
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How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you’ll be.
– Jaclyn Moriarty – The Cracks in the Kingdom
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky – White Nights
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
– Neil Gaiman –
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
– Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
– Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
The place where the sea kisses the sky is a beautiful beginning to a painful end.
– Vanshika Dhyani –
Drink up baby, look at the stars
I’ll kiss you again between the bars …
Drink up one more time
And I’ll make you mine
Keep you apart,
Deep in my heart
Separate from the rest,
Where I like you the best
And keep the things you forgot …
I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I’m seeing we don’t live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It’s an infinite playlist.
– David Levithan – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?
– JoAnne Kenrick –
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