Let Me Tell You a Story...

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughing was a question he wanted to spend his whole life to answering.

[thehopefulquotes]

“What do you say when you’re not enough to make someone stay? What do you do when you meet the love of your life and realize it’s all about timing? How do you accept that no matter how perfect you are for each other, circumstances get in the way? How do you compete with that kind of fate?”

— Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love

[quotationsworld]

'I think I've loved you since I met you,' he says as we draw apart. 'I just mistook it for curiosity.'

— Alice Oseman, Solitaire

[quotationsworld]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

— J. Krishnamurti

[quotationsworld]

I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia — and great deal of love.

— Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956

[quotationsworld]

“You know, love doesn’t mean ‘I never want you to change’. But I don’t think it means ‘I don’t care if you change’ either. So I suppose it might mean, ‘I believe that you’ll always be the person I adore’. A declaration of faith, perhaps.”

— Sayaka Saeki, やがて君になる (Bloom into You).

[quotationsworld]

Once a first grader asked me how long a poem had to be and when I said it could be just one word he wrote a poem that was just his best friend’s phone number.

— from Heather Christle's tweet

[quotationsworld]

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

— Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2)

[quotationsworld]

I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.

— Julia quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4)

[quotationsworld]

In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.

— Donna Tartt, in this 2013 interview by Laurie Grassi for Chatelaine

[quotationsworld]

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

— T.H. White, The Once and Future King

[quotationsworld]

I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behavior. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee.

— Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

[quotationsworld]

She “loved me” in quotations

She kissed me in bold

I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps

She left with an ellipsis…

— Benjamin James Kessler

[quotationsworld]

But I miss you to the point of anguish. I'd like to see you and have you to myself - just to myself - for a long, long while.

— Letters to Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir

[quotationsworld]

terrified again

of not loving

of loving and not you

of being loved and not by you

— Cascando, Samuel Beckett

[quotationsworld]

Sometimes when we’re alone, he looks at me in a way that makes me feel empty when he looks away.

— Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

[quotationsworld]

I want all the memories with you, Noah Jarvis. Soul-wrenching and life-changing memories. I’m desperate for them.

— Brynne Asher, Veils

[quotationsworld]

I want to crawl inside of you sometimes,' I whisper. 'Sometimes I want you to be all that I can see and hear. So that nothing exists in the world to me but the feel of you...'

— Penelope Douglas, Falls Boys