Lauren Bachman > Lauren's Quotes

“His eyes warm at that- it kills me. What are we going to do with all this love?”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“For a moment, in his arms, with my mind so close to his heart, I listen to the wind pick up and think it just might lift us off our feet and take us with it.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.”
― Jandy Nelson

“Each time someone dies, a library burns.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“When he plays
all the flowers swap colors
and years and decades and centuries
of rain pour back into the sky”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

“they tell me there are four seasons
but I live in a fifth one
which is your space
and your time”
― Etel Adnan

“And love isn't a fact. It's a hunch at first. And then later it's a series of decisions, a lifetime of decisions. That's love.”
― Welcome to Night Vale

“He laughed. 'Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I'm going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks are going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Sometimes he wished he could be the wind and touch all of her at once.”
― Greg Sellers

“With you, intimacy colours my voice.
even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.”
― Warsan Shire

“You came into my life-not as one comes to visit (you know, “not taking one’s hat off”) but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“Stars have cried for a love like ours.”
― Eleanor Russell

“He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

“From the beginning of this love I’ve felt that unless I threw myself into it unreservedly, committing myself to it whole-heartedly, fully and forever, there would be absolutely no chance for me, and if I’ve thrown myself into it in the above-mentioned way, that doesn’t alter the fact that the chance is very small. But does it matter to me if the chance is larger or smaller? I mean, must I, can I, take that into account when I love? No — no thought to the winnings — one loves because one loves.
To love — what a business!”
― Vincent van Gogh

“I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you – better than anyone else in the world ever can.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

“If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persever,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.”
― Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar