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Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

— Becca Fitzpatrick
Humor Relationships

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.

— Jane Austen
Relationships

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

— Albert Camus
Relationships

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

— Coco Chanel
Self & Identity Love Courage & Strength Relationships Women Freedom

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

— Suzanne Collins
Humor Relationships

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

— Charles Dickens
Life Sadness & Pain Change & Growth Relationships

Happiness [is] only real when shared

— Jon Krakauer
Inspirational Love Relationships Happiness Family

Every great love starts with a great story...

— Nicholas Sparks
Relationships

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

— Mae West
Relationships Women

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

— Leigh Bardugo
Relationships

Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my lifeAnd you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have rootsRememberThat on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my armsAnd my roots will set off to seek another land

— Pablo Neruda
Inspirational Life Love Change & Growth Relationships

There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. "I know, mate," said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, "so it's now or never, isn't it?" "Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?" Harry shouted. "D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?" "Yeah --- right --- sorry ---" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.

— J.K. Rowling
Love Society & Politics Relationships

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Kindness Positive Thinking Relationships

Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Art & Beauty Positive Thinking Relationships

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

— Charles Dickens
Love Relationships

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.