All Quotes By Tag: Love

“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”

“How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn’t have any substance after all?Like when you’ve split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. “Plenty more fish in the sea,” they’ll say, or “You’re better off without them,” or “Do you want some of these potato chips?” They never really understand, because they haven’t been there, every day, every hour. They don’t know the way things have been, the way that it’s made you, the way it has structured your world. They’ll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don’t understand the history, the background, don’t know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don’t know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone’s alone in their world, because everybody’s life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.”

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don’t let it spoil you, for it’s wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can’t have the one you want.”

“Oh Jake,” Brett said, “We could have had such a damned good time together.”Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“At the end of the day it’s about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“As your lover describes you, so you are.”

“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”

“So don’t you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]”

“But I have to confess, I’m glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together.”I’m not glad,” says Peeta. “I wish we had waited until the whole thing was done officially.”This takes even Caesar aback. “Surely even a brief time is better than no time?”Maybe I’d think that, too, Caesar,” says Peeta bitterly, “If it weren’t for the baby.”