You want to know what love is?
It's the thing that ruins you.
Alice Hoffman
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You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.
ALICE HOFFMAN Alice! You know I love you like a sister!"
"Words." she growled.
STEPHENIE MEYER Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replie...
LEWIS CARROLL Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”
The c...
LEWIS CARROLL Alice asked the Cheshire Cat who was sitting in a tree "What road do I take?"
The cat ask...
LEWIS CARROLL What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'
Be yourself,...
ORHAN PAMUK But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said t...
LEWIS CARROLL The big thing is that you know what you want.
EARL NIGHTINGALE Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?"
"That's stupid."
"What is? Love, or my ...
RICK YANCEY We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are...
LEWIS CARROLL 'But I dont want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you cant help that,' said the...
LEWIS CARROLL And the thing about love," Wally said to Angel, "is that you can’t force anyone. It’s natural to...
JOHN IRVING Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That dep...
LEWIS CARROLL Do you know?
What the fuck do women want?
l know what you want: everything.
CHRIS ROCK I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI You know what?” His breath was warm against my cheek. “There are a lot of stupid things to do, b...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on: 'And how do you know that you're mad...
LEWIS CARROLL But whatever
However
Whenever this ends I want you to know
That right now
I love...
ANDREA GIBSON What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'll love you to ruins.
MICHELLE HODKIN Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothin...
NICOLA YOON I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses...
If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."
Jasper chuckled and E...
STEPHENIE MEYER I don’t know everything about life and marriage and happiness. But I do know what love is. And I d...
MORDRED How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk...
OMAR KHAYYáM You will love him to ruins.
MICHELLE HODKIN Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -"
"Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had...
LEWIS CARROLL Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name...
LEWIS CARROLL If you don’t ask for what you want, you will most certainly not get it. But the first thing is to ...
MARTHA LEE How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know wh...
LAO TZU ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.
The first thing you ...
CARLA BUCKLEY Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ...
DEYTH BANGER everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA You're so beautiful
But that's not why I love you
And I'm not sure you know
That t...
AVRIL LAVIGNE In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi...
GARY F EVANS... Of everything I have seen,
it's you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I've touched, ...
PABLO NERUDA You can't just decide to be happy."
"No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be...
LEV GROSSMAN We don't even love each other.
I do a bit, you know.
You do what a bit?
You know. Lik...
MELINA MARCHETTA What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don’t see anywhere you want to ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Ca...
LEWIS CARROLL But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on whe...
LEWIS CARROLL Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER You know love is everything you say;
a whisper, a word,
promises you give.
You feel it ...
ENYA Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, �...
LEWIS CARROLL THE INVITATION
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn't interest me what you do for a li...
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant
3 beers in. Believe me, even I’m surprised <...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Life is more than love and pleasure,
I came to dig for treasure.
If you want to play, you ...
STEPHEN KING The only thing that holds you back from getting what you want is paying attention to what you don’...
ABRAHAM-HICKS My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never lo...
OSCAR WILDE i want to be
in love with you
the same way
i am in
love with the moon SANOBER KHAN Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st...
GENE WILDER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.
LEWIS CARROLL Being in love isn't always the fairytale we want it to be, but guess what? Fairytales aren't real. L...
CAROL LYNNE I can't fathom my love for you,
but I know that it makes me want to drown inside of you.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You know I wanna stay with you, right? I mean forever... we agree on that, right?
Are you...
ARNE BELLSTORF Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously....
LEWIS CARROLL I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, b...
ELIZABETH SCOTT Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color.
Just as God too lets ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You have to come downstairs now!" panted Alice.
"What's wrong?"
"Everything! Izzy's floati...
KATIE MATTIE America: You didn't have to do that.
Maxon: I know. But sometimes it's about what you want to d...
KIERA CASS I don't have all of the answers to the world. I don't know everything about life and marriage and ha...
MORDRED I don't have a ring. I don't have a pretty speech prepared. All I know is that I love you more than ...
JAY CROWNOVER The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir...
JOHN C. PARKIN What if you died?"
"I'd sit up there on the edge of my cloud and throw stuff at you."
GRASSHOPPER You love me,” he said. “That’s all I need to know.”
“You always say the right thing,...
SUZANNE BROCKMANN Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror refle...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what i...
TRENTON OLDFIELD Sometimes things will go incredibly well and then you might find that you need to do the whole thing...
LILY CHATTERJEE You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!
RALPH W. SOCKMAN You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!
KAY KNUDSEN I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard w...
JACK MCCARTHY They don’t want me. They’re curious why you want me. And anyway, I feel sorry for anyone that th...
JAMIE MCGUIRE I care for you, darling, I love you,
the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
TONI BRAXTON What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that...
MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that...
MARINA TSVETAEVA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON It's the most wonderful and terrible thing that can ever happen to you," she said simply. "You know ...
KIERA CASS And in case I forget everything, including to come back, I want you to know that I still love you."<...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?"
"I want to look at you and remember wha...
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REID HOFFMAN If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumpi...
PAUL HOFFMAN Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in...
PAUL HOFFMAN There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then...
MARY HOFFMAN The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe...
ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year.
ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500...
ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ...
ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w...
ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone....
ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.
ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN