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I think we ought to live happily ever after.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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We are all worthy of one another.
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Edward P. Jones (The Known World)
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Passion is...it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jonesβs Diary (Bridget Jones, #1))
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No matter who you choose to go down the road with, you're gonna get hurt. That's just the nature of caring about someone. No matter who you love, they will break your heart along the way.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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I wish someone had told me that love isnβt torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didnβt know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war. I didnβt know it was supposed toβ¦ I didnβt know it was supposed to be peace.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.
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Carrie Jones (Captivate (Need, #2))
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We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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I love you as much as I'm willing to love anybody.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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But loving somebody isn't perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it's a gut punch. That's why it's a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn't deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else's. It's sacred.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Fire and Hemlock)
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That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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You can't control another person. It doesn't matter how much you love them. You can't love someone back to health and you can't hate someone back to health and no matter how right you are about something, it doesn't mean they will change their mind.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.
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Carrie Jones (Captivate (Need, #2))
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I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."
~ Hardy Cates
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Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1))
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It's the ones who never loved you enough that come to you when you can't sleep. You always wonder what the future might have held for you and you'll never know. Maybe you almost don't want to know.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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I'm not saying that I didnβt care. I cared a lot. Iβm saying that when you really love someone, sometimes the things they need may hurt you, and some people are worth hurting for.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jonesβs Diary (Bridget Jones, #1))
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People say it's hard to be away from the people you love but it was so hard to be right next to him.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jonesβs Diary (Bridget Jones, #1))
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Love and pride don't mix.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I loved about the world, Daisy loved about the world. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don't love you... I was burning.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.
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Darynda Jones (Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson, #2))
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But at some point, you have to recognize that you have no control over anybody and you have to step back and be ready to catch them when they fall and that's all you can do. It feels like throwing yourself to sea. Or, maybe not that. Maybe it's more like throwing someone you love out to sea and then praying they float on their own, knowing they might well drown and you'll have to watch.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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I want you to want me because you want me, not because of grief, not because he is not here. I want you to love me for me. I want you to kiss me first and not because you need me to help you, but because you need to kiss me.
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Carrie Jones (Entice (Need, #3))
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Oh, my. What a lovely shade of bitch you're wearing today. --T-SHIRT
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Darynda Jones (Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davidson, #6))
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It is what I have always loved about music. Not the sounds or the crowds or the good times as much as the words -- the emotions, the stories, the truth -- that you can let flow right out of your mouth.
Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until you hit something.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.
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Lisa Unger (Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, #1))
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Denial is like an old blanket. I loved to get on under that thing and curl up and sleep.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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When people asked me for my autograph, I used to write, "Stay Solid, Daisy J." But when it was a young girl - which wasn't often but it did happen from time to time - I used to write, "Dream big, little bird. Love, Daisy
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.
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Robin Jones Gunn (Gardenias for Breakfast)
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When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.
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Lisa Unger (Beautiful Lies (Ridley Jones, #1))
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God I loved Sammy. Iβd considered marrying him, but his wife got upset when I asked for his hand.
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Darynda Jones (Third Grave Dead Ahead (Charley Davidson, #3))
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When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart...
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jonesβs Diary (Bridget Jones, #1))
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But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.
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Tayari Jones (An American Marriage)
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You are the monster I claim, mein Herr.
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S. Jae-Jones (Wintersong (Wintersong, #1))
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I love children, but I don't think I can eat a whole one.- Bumper sticker
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Darynda Jones (First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1))
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To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.
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Jenny B. Jones (There You'll Find Me)
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Is it love, or is it convenience?... She explained that connivence, habit, comfort, obligation- these are all things that wear the same clothing as love sometimes.
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Tayari Jones (An American Marriage)
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Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyondβ¦ why canβt it seem to find me?
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Jenny B. Jones (There You'll Find Me)
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Oh, I love period dramas, especially period dramas starring Colin Firth. I'm like Bridget Jones if she were actually fat."
"Oh... Colin Firth. He should only do period dramas. And period dramas should only star Colin Firth. (One-star upgrade for Colin Firth. Two stars for Colin Firth in a waistcoat.)
"Keep typing his name, even his name is handsome.
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Rainbow Rowell (Attachments)
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I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other.
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Lisa Renee Jones (Being Me (Inside Out, #2))
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If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!
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Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2))
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Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours."
"He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything."
"Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies."
"What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!
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Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2))
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In all these things, I am more than victorious through Him who loves me.
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Jenny B. Jones (There You'll Find Me)
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Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?
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Robin Jones Gunn (As You Wish (Christy and Todd: College Years #2))
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You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.
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Carrie Jones (Entice (Need, #3))
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I travelled across the world. From the ruins of New York, to the fusion mills of China, right across the radiation pits of Europe. And everywhere I went I saw people just like you, living as slaves! But if Martha Jones became a legend then that's wrong, because my name isn't important. There's someone else. The man who sent me out there, the man who told me to walk the Earth. And his name is The Doctor. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him, I know him... I love him... And I know what he can do. - Martha Jones
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Russell T. Davies
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You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck is like the tower of David.' Oh, now, that sounds real attractive! If some guy tried those lines on me, I'm sure I'd fall instantly in love with him.
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Robin Jones Gunn (As You Wish (Christy and Todd: College Years #2))
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Iβll love you forever G, wherever I am in the world, whatever Iβm doing, it will always be you, Iβm yours, for as long as you want me, for as long as Iβm good for you, Iβm all yours.
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Lesley Jones (The Story of Us (Carnage, #1))
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Kara do you love Brad?'
All my heart.'
Then how can you let him leave next year?'
I guess love isnβt enough sometimes.
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Patrick Jones (Things Change)
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You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords."
"Only for you.
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Darynda Jones (First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1))
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Write a list of things youβll regret/Iβd be on top smoking a cigarette.β I loved that line.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.
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Stephen Graham Jones (My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1))
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Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before."
Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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Cookie dropped her purse and tried to catch it midair. In the process, she knocked over a vase. When she lunged for the vase, she slipped on the tile and overturned an entire table. A lovely handblown piece of glass flew in my direction, and all I could think as I caught it was, Really? Again? We were going to have to practice muscle control.
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Darynda Jones (Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson, #2))
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Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?
Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still have sex?
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jonesβs Diary (Bridget Jones, #1))
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When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.
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Robin Jones Gunn (Echoes (Glenbrooke, #3))
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I think most people are just trying to be happy, and that most of their actions, however misguided, are in line with that goal. Most people just want to feel they belong somewhere, want to be loved, and want to feel they're important to someone. If you really examine all the wrongheaded and messed-up things they do, they can most often be traced back to that basic desire. The abusers, the addicted, the cruel and unpleasant, the manipulators --these are just people who started this quest for happiness in the basement of their lives. Someone communicated to them through word or deed that they were undeserving, so they think they have to claw their way there over the backs of others, leaving scars and creating damage. Of course, they only create more misery for themselves and others.
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Lisa Unger (Sliver of Truth (Ridley Jones, #2))
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I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.
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Robin Jones Gunn (As You Wish (Christy and Todd: College Years #2))
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Yes, you have the very soul of me, Elisabeth.β
βThen your name, mein Herr.β
He laughed softly, but it was a gasp of pain, not of joy. βNo.β
βWhy?β
βSo you will forget me,β he said simply. βYou cannot love a man with no name.
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S. Jae-Jones (Wintersong (Wintersong, #1))
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Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, itβs a gut punch.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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I was eleven years old, but I knew without a shadow of a doubt I was staring into the eyes of the boy I was going to love forever,
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Lesley Jones (The Story of Us (Carnage, #1))
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Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry.
'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...'
'But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!'
'Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in the right order, and youβve created a moment in time where the reader forgets about the late car payment, the dirty dishes, the impending workweek. You have created a state of bliss. Or negligence, depending on your perspective.
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Darynda Jones
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We are nothing but space dust, trying to find its way back to the stars.
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David Jones (Love and Space Dust)
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I'm saying that when you really love someone, sometimes the things they need may hurt you, and some people are worth hurting for.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Love is the bridge that spans the world above and below, and keeps the wheel of life turning.
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S. Jae-Jones (Wintersong (Wintersong, #1))
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What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
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Carrie Jones (Entice (Need, #3))
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A woman doesn't always have a choice, not in a meaningful way. Sometimes there is a debt that must be paid, a comfort that she is obliged to provide, a safe passage that must be secured. Everyone of us has lain down for a reason that was not love.
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Tayari Jones (An American Marriage)
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That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
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Carrie Jones (Endure (Need, #4))
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Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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I made myself a promise: Even if it meant becoming a stranger to my loved ones, even if it meant keeping secrets, I would have a life of my own.
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Saeed Jones (How We Fight For Our Lives)
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Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school."
Todd: "I never knew that."
Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on the floor."
Todd: "Uh-oh. Is this one of those issues they talked about in our premarital counseling? Should I hang up towels so you feel more loved?
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Robin Jones Gunn (I Promise (Christy and Todd, The College Years #3))
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Jesus may love you, but i'm his favourite
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Darynda Jones
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If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert where your remains lay decomposing for several decades until they're accidentally discovered by some guy on a journey to awaken his spirit at the Salinas Pueblo Missions, can I have your iMac?"
I gaped at her. "You've really thought this out.
"I love your iMac."
"I love my iMac too, and you're not getting her."
"But you'll be decomposing.
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Darynda Jones (Death and the Girl Next Door (Darklight, #1))
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Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would make a good deal more eventful than any story made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me," added Howl.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven't you heard? Sometimes it's hard to decipher exactly which emotion is strongest."
I raised my chin. "I don't love you either."
He lowered his head and watched me from underneath his dark lashes. "Are you certain? Because the emotion pouring out of you every time I'm near you is certainly not disinterest."
"That doesn't mean it's love."
"It could be, I promise you. Take off that sweater and give me ten minutes, and you'll believe beyond a shadow of a doubt you're in love.
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Darynda Jones (Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Charley Davidson, #4))
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Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better to pretend there is no one else involved? Do they think it will be less hurtful for their partners to think they just walked out because they couldn't stand them any more and then had the good fortune to meet some tall Omar Sharif-figure with a gentleman's handbag two weeks afterwards while the ex-partner is spending his evenings bursting into tears at the sight of the toothbrush mug? It's like those people who invent a lie as an excuse rather than the truth, even when the truth is better than the lie.
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jonesβs Diary (Bridget Jones, #1))
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Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there are times that if we don't rock the boat, too often the one we lose is ourselves...It feels good to be accepted, loved, and approved of by others, but often the membership fee to belong to that club is far too high of a price to pay.
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Dennis Merritt Jones
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Sometimes it's exhausting for me to simply walk into the house. I try and calm myself, remember that I've lived alone before. Sleeping by myself didn't kill me then and will not kill me now. But this what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
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Tayari Jones (An American Marriage)
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God has brought a very wise Japanese lady into my life who lives in Calif. We've never met, but she has shared a tremendous amount of wisdom with me concerning unconditional love within relationships. Here is one of the things she said to me this evening when we were discussing "Soul Mates."
"Soul mates aren't perfect people. They can come into your life and provide polar emotional experiences from intense love to intense pain. Growth comes from both. And a soul mate helps you grow. It isn't just "...and they lived happily ever after" but "...and they lived!" ~ From my mentor ~ Lori Chidori Phillips
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Dianne Rosena Jones
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Keep thinking back about what Mum said about being real and the Velveteen Rabbit book (though frankly have had enough trouble with rabbits in this particular house). My favorite book, she claims of which I have no memory was about how little kids get one toy that they love more than all the others, and even when its fur has been rubbed off, and it's gone saggy with bits missing, the little child still thinks it's the most beautiful toy in the world, and can't bear to be parted from it.
That's how it works, when people really love each other, Mum whispered on the way out in the Debenhams lift, as if she was confessing some hideous and embarrassing secret. But, the thing is, darling, it doesn't happen to ones who have sharp edges, or break if they get dropped, or ones made of silly synthetic stuff that doesn't last. You have to be brave and let the other person know who you are and what you feel.
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2))
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Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours". Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2))
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Howl pointed a shaky hand up toward the canopy of his bed. βThatβs why I love spiders. βIf at first you donβt succeed, try, try, try, again.β I keep trying,β he said with great sadness. βBut I brought it on myself by making a bargain some years ago, and I know I shall never be able to love anyone properly now.β
The water running out of Howlβs eyes was definitely tears now.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2))
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I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere of his mothers prayers. Among the women of the future, there was one who would know his secrets and bear his children, and witness the changes the years worked on him. And it wouldnt be me.
-Liberty Jones
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Lisa Kleypas (Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1))
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Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.
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Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)
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Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I loved about the world, Daisy loved about the world. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same. In that way you're only the same with a few other people. In that way that you don't even feel like you have to say your own thoughts because you know the other person is already thinking them. How could I be around Daisy Jones and not be mesmerized by her? Not fall in love with her?
I couldn't.
I just couldn't.
But Camila meant more. That's just the deepest truth. My family meant more to me. Camila meant more to me. Maybe, for a little while there, Camila wasn't the person I was the most drawn to.
Or...
...
...
Maybe Camila wasn't the person I was the most in love with. At that time, I don't know. You can't...maybe she wasn't. But she was always the person I loved the most. She was always the person I would choose.
It is Camila, for me. Always.
Passion is...it's fire. And fire is great, man. But we're made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn't be it (288-289).
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six)
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Tell me of this wizard Howl of yours."
Sophie's teeth chattered, but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to do anything."
"Indded?" asked Abdullah. "Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies."
"What do you mean, vices?" Sophie asked angrily. "I was just describing Howl!
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Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2))
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Typical!β he said to Sophie. β I break my neck to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!β
Sophie looked up at him. As she had feared, the hard black-and white light coming through the broken wall showed her that Howl had not bothered to shave or tidy his hair. His eyes were still red-rimmed and his black sleeves were torn in several place. There was not much to choose between Howl and the scarecrow. Oh, dear! Sophie thought. He must love Miss Angorian very much. βI came for Miss Angorian,β she explained.
βAnd I thought if I arranged for your family to visit you, it would keep you quiet for once!β Howl said disgustedly. βBut no---β.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Howlβs Moving Castle (Howlβs Moving Castle, #1))
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Junction nineteen! Una, she came off at Junction nineteen! You've added an hour to your journey before you even started. Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?"
Oh GOD. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to THEM and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still having sex?" Everyone knows that dating in your thirties is not the happy-go-lucky free-for-it-all it was when you were twenty-two and that the honest answer is more likely to be, "Actually, last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little Angora crop-top, told me he was gay/a sex addict/a narcotic addict/a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo," than, "Super, thanks.
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Helen Fielding (Bridget Jonesβs Diary (Bridget Jones, #1))
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Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart.
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Robin Jones Gunn (I Promise (Christy and Todd, The College Years #3))
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Time is a funny thing, it can give and it can take away; and a single moment in time can truly change oneβs life forever!
The best kind of love is unexpected, unexplainable, undeniable, and unimaginable.
Your sweet scent will forever be with me, reminding me of the love we once shared. I will breathe in the memories until we meet again.
Before you act on what you have been told, consider your source. It may simply be assumption on their part, and that can be far from fact.
Why stand back and wait for someone to fail when you can stand up and offer your support?
Love is when the sound of your partnerβs snoring lulls you to sleep, and it acts as a reminder that they are there by your side.
Building a wall around your heart is a voluntary imprisonment to which only you have the key. Open your heart to lifeβs possibilities!
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Donna L. Jones
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I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You were supposed to study criticism. Some professor wrote a book 'proving' that TOM JONES was really a Marxist parable. Some other professor wrote a book 'proving' that TOM JONES was really a Christian parable. Some other professor wrote a book 'proving' that TOM JONES was really a parable of the Industrial Revolution. . . . Nobody seemed to give a shit about your reading TOM JONES as long as you could reel off the names of the various theories and who invented them. . . . My response was to sleep through as much of it as possible.
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Erica Jong (Fear of Flying)
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I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be linked unto a system of gears where teeth have been filed off at random. Such snaggle-toothed thought machine, driven by a standard or even by a substandard libido, whirls with the jerky, noisy, gaudy pointlessness of a cuckoo clock in Hell.
The boss G-man concluded wrongly that there were no teeth on the gears in the mind of Jones. 'You're completely crazy,' he said.
Jones wasn't completely crazy. The dismaying thing about classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, thought mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined.
Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell - keeping perfect time for eight minutes and twenty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year.
The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten-year-olds, in most cases.
The wilful filling off a gear teeth, the wilful doing without certain obvious pieces of information -
That was how a household as contradictory as one composed of Jones, Father Keeley, Vice-Bundesfuehrer Krapptauer, and the Black Fuehrer could exist in relative harmony -
That was how my father-in-law could contain in one mind an indifference toward slave women and love fora a blue vase -
That was how Rudolf Hess, Commandant of Auschwitz, could alternate over the loudspeakers of Auschwitz great music and calls for corpse-carriers -
That was how Nazi Germany sense no important difference between civilization and hydrophobia -
That is the closest I can come to explaining the legions, the nations of lunatics I've seen in my time.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Mother Night)