Romantic quotes
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"You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."
"She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love ."
"Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery."
"Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music."
"If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'."
"I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved."
"Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed."
"I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion."
"Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved."
"Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon."
"Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it."
"The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed."
"Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be."
"I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took"
"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
"Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love."
"Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love."
"Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well."
"You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail."
