Love is the hardest thing I have ever had to shake
It's not like you have a choice of who you love and who you don't. You just love someone. It doesn't mean that everyone else has to understand or approve of it. That's not love. Love is something special between two people that doesn't change or alter for anyone.
It's time I learned to fall
To say the word goodbye
To feel the sunlight on my face
Maybe that means
I'm ready to fly
Ready to Fly - Amy Pearson
I was in his arms, and he was kissing me, and
everything was fine. More than fine even.
Everything was perfect. Because he loved me.
my hands were freezing
and your hands were in your pockets;
i shoved mine in with yours
just to feel your thumb caress my skin.
nothing else, just the light touch
nothing else, just a little love.
"When you're in love you don't have to do a damn thing.
You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world.
You don't have to move an inch."
- 'Feast of Love' by Charles Baxter
I think that's what's wrong with the world; no one says what they feel, they always hold it inside. They're sad, but they don't cry. They're happy, but they don't sing or dance. They're angry, but they don't scream. 'Cause if they do, they feel ashamed. And that's the worst feeling in the world. So everyone walks with their heads down and no one sees how beautiful the sky really is.
I feel all the same things when I do things alone as when ole golly was here. The bath feels hot, the bed feels soft, but I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
"It's just ... I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
She plays guitar with her fingertips
She'll play your heart with her tender lips
She'll work it out until she makes the tips
And it's alright, yeah it's alright
Holding her tight in late December
I look in the stars and I remember
She doesn't mind when you offend her
And it's alright, yeah it's alright
Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.
-Atonement
it's the kind of intimacy that you just can't fake. it's the kind of intense, supernatural feeling that only comes around when all a person needs to do is brush a fingertip against your arm, and you feel like you may never breathe again.
"I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
-The Great Gatsby; Fitzgerald
Some people fall in love.
I had to crash into it.
- How to Deal
So, you want a heart. You don`t
know how lucky you are not to have
one. Hearts will never be practical
until they can be made unbreakable.
-The Wizard of Oz
& there weren't any fireworks
Or shining stars in our eyes.
Just a boy and a girl holding hands
& that's all that we needed
We crossed the
friendship line a
long time ago; we're
heading straight for
head over heels
Oh how you laughed at my complete lack of grace.
But I could not recall a more perfect fall
Cause when I looked up into your eyes, it didn't hurt at all.
I got a lecture about behavior, and how if we wanted boys to be gentlemen we should act like ladies, which was idiotic because we didn't want the boys to be gentlemen. We wanted them to think we're pretty and ask us to dance and hold our hands, and maybe kiss us in the corner and send us clever instant messages.
-The Boyfriend List
“Ever since I was young I never understood anything about the world, and I never understood anything that happened in my life. The only thing that ever made sense to me was you, and how I felt about you. That's all I've ever known and that's enough...that's enough for me, for the rest of my life."
-Boy Meets World
Young Melanie: What do you want to be married to me for, anyhow?
Young Jake: So I can kiss you anytime I want.
-Sweet Home Alabama
What did it feel like, I wondered to be kissed like that right out in public?
Not like some passionate tongue-wrestling thing,
Just a kiss to declare that we are each other's
I'd never been kissed like that.
No one had declared me his, not for the world to see, anyway.
they said we stood a little too close,
stared a little bit too long;
they probably thought we had a
little thing for each other,
but no, that would be silly.
Well I didn't mean for this to go as far as it did.
And I didn't mean to get so close and share what we did
and I didn't mean to fall in love, but I did.
And you didn't mean to love me back, but I know you did.
He stumbles over his words, closes his eyes tightly.
Breathes in, breathes out. Almost loses his courage.
"I love you," he says. "I love you so much it hurts."
That's life. If nothing else, its life.
It's real, and sometimes it hurts, but it's sort of all we have
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.
They say we'll never see half as much as they did.
& It's true that we never saw Vietnam or World War Two.
We didn't see our mother's cry when John F. Kennedy died, but we've lived our
whole lives being told that we're just not good enough.
we've seen anorexia and bulimia because skinny just isn't skinny enough.
We saw Columbine and watched the Twin Towers fall.
We've seen a lot of greed and even more hate.
Our generation fights a different kind of war but we've seen just as much as them
... and maybe even more.
I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now.
The kisses you put on my forehead
when you think I'm off dreaming in my sleep,
those are the ones that mean the most,
because you did it because you wanted to,
not because you feel you have to.
"That's the thing about girls. Everytime they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
-catcher in the rye
A heart is a fragile thing. That’s why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile than others. Purer, somehow. Like crystal in a world of glass, even the way they shatter is beautiful.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise.
It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint like a heart beat
And pure love, why some days it's so quiet,
you don't even know it's there.
i just wish i knew what you’re thinking
when you look at me and smile.
Somehow, you find beauty in me.
And that completely takes my breath away.