A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
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DORIS LESSING Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that ... CHARLES DICKENS he had never imagined she would leave him for messing around with girls he would never have married ... DOROTHY ALLISON In a few minutes she would be alone with him; she would run down the ladder, and let him see her; th... BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him o... ANNA GODBERSEN I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ... ROBERT BLAKE But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize... THOMAS HARDY She knew she was in love with him. She loved everything about him too. He was more than a fantasy. F... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG The woman knows from living with the abusive man that there are no simple answers. Friends say: “H... LUNDY BANCROFT Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.” She wasn’t sure he could hear h... RICK RIORDAN It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstanc... MILAN KUNDERA Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better th... CHARLES DICKENS (She) tells him that she loves him, tells him that she wants to be with him again sexually, so she d... BARBARA MATTHEWS Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... STIEG LARSSON He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL She looks at him (Andrew) with such love in her eyes. APRIL GODRA He would give up his wings and heaven for her, a woman he loved but would never truly belong to him,... J.L. SHEPPARD Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy's ear. "I love you". She wasn't sure he could hear her -but if th... RICK RIORDAN She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't ... GARTH RISK HALLBERG Michael,” she whispered, wishing he would kiss her. “I love the way you say my name. You’re th... SARAH MACLEAN She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes. GIOVANNIE DE SADELEER He offered his love ... she could not bother, She gives her love to the other! The other! E.A. BUCCHIANERI And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality th... GRAHAM GREENE I would do anything for you. Anything." With that, he pushed his way out...and as the doo... J.R. WARD The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be ... UMBERTO ECO The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be ... UMBERTO ECO Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more an... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Elektra met Matt, and she fell in love with him. And I think he brought some good out of her at some... ELODIE YUNG He was her life. She loved that boy, did everything for him. She never said a word about him being v... AUTRAULIA HARRIS Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... LEO TOLSTOY That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a stairca... ANTONIA MICHAELIS All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him... CHARLES YU She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-... KIMBERLY KINRADE I fell in love with her; she was just adorable, WENDY WHITE When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN What does Éloa mean?” He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name... SARAH MACLEAN Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin... NICHOLAS SPARKS She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt li... LISA JEWELL If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE She said that he picked up her son and threw him on the floor. He said that the little boy had fell ... DEMETRA BLEVINS He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But... ANNA GODBERSEN If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she cou... M.F. MOONZAJER As he clutched her in his shaking hands and wept against her, he whispered into her ear, the words t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE She wasn't sure what she hoped her words would accomplish. She always fantasized that they would be ... LAUREN VALENCIA Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo... PATSY KENSIT There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand ... LAINI TAYLOR She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and s... AKSHAY VASU Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... LATIKA TEOTIA God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she migh... ELAYNE BOOSLER God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she migh... WOODROW WYATT I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good... JOHN GREEN His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't. ZSA ZSA GABOR If she could explore and heal his injuries with her fingers, it would be another type of magic, her ... NATALIA JASTER Almost every day, for years now, he has taken pen in hand to write to her. He has no names or addres... ALESSANDRO BARICCO I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that... UMBERTO ECO She tried to think of the right thing to say - something that would make him leave her alone. If she... CAROLINE HANSON She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she... CHERYL STRAYED She did not think it was love. She did not think it was love when she felt a curious ache and anxiet... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, t... JERRY HALL He has realized the relationship is over and it?s time to move on. She would never call him to check... KATRINA SZISH She hadn’t needed him to escape that place. But rather than making him angry, it only made him pro... D.B. REYNOLDS The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort... ORHAN PAMUK When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of he... MILAN KUNDERA She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and exc... JODI PICOULT He loved her. Jay Heaton, her best friend since childhood was in love with her. He didn't say i... KIMBERLY DERTING They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you." He closed his eyes. And when he opened th... ELIZABETH HOYT An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as h... NICHOLAS SPARKS . . . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with Davi... ZELDA FITZGERALD An unspoken rivalry threaded their relationship, in which Tiger Lily thought that if she could keep ... 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abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He wanted to remain with her, ... She did not want to be with him, she says, and that gave rise to h... BARRY HAZEN He laughed and was about to retort when she grabbed his collar and pulled him into her. She clamped ... DEREK LANDY She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him e... JOHN BARTH He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of f... TERESA OF ÁVILA She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY She was just in love with the Lord. She would never say anything bad about anyone; she was loving to... JENNIFER CZAJKA Prove it!" she hissed. "Prove you are who you are!" "We don't have time for this! You really wa... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and... NEIL GAIMAN Her arms reached up to wrap around his neck, holding on as if she would never let go. She kissed him... DEBORAH BLAKE The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dre... TED HUGHES
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ANAïS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ANAïS NIN The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest. ANAïS NIN My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness. ANAïS NIN She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don’t have a language fo... ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ANAïS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ANAïS NIN I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. ANAïS NIN I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the botto... ANAïS NIN When one is pretending, the entire body revolts. ANAïS NIN Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. Ther... ANAïS NIN People living deeply have no fear of death. ANAïS NIN From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to... ANAïS NIN Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is t... ANAïS NIN The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. ANAïS NIN She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t... ANAïS NIN For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to ... ANAïS NIN The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. ANAïS NIN When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h... ANAïS NIN You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence... ANAïS NIN Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m... ANAïS NIN I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a foo... ANAïS NIN You cannot do any more for me," I said. "Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever... ANAïS NIN In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p... ANAïS NIN We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are ANAïS NIN Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are... ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp... ANAïS NIN I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. ANAïS NIN Pain is something to master, not to wallow in. ANAïS NIN [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful... ANAïS NIN Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. ANAïS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAïS NIN I write emotional algebra. ANAïS NIN She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ... ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ANAIS NIN The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ... ANAIS NIN How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it... ANAIS NIN Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o... ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ANAIS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ANAIS NIN There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ANAIS NIN What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ANAIS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ANAIS NIN Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d... ANAIS NIN