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• Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Teenage, Book, Reading

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• In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Art, Memories

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.117, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

  Scott Snyder

  Night, Long, Together

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• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feet, Long, Broken

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.176, Virginia Woolf

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• A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Heart, Night, Imagination

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• To Love is to be God.
  Never will a Lover's chest
  feel any sorrow.
  Never will a Lover's robe
  be touched by mortals.
  Never will a Lover's body
  be found buried in the earth.
  To Love is to be God.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Sorrow

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

  Thomas Hardy

  Secret, Advent

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “A Pair Of Blue Eyes (Annotated Edition)”, p.300, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Husband, Thinking, Men

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me”, p.308, St. Martin's Griffin

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• You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Names, Mouths

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• The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

  A. E. Housman

  Light, Luck, Lovers Meeting

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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• All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Ties, Sweetheart

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• ...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Real, People

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.139, Vintage

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Lying, Eye

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• In case you haven't noticed, I'm a lover not a fighter.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fighter, Cases, Havens

  "Flutter". Book by Amanda Hocking, May 3, 2016.

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• "Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

  Lauren Oliver

  Tired, Sleep, Eye

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

  Thomas Mann

  Secret, Arches, Beloved

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.45, Vintage

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• Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Moon, Keys, Blood

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.58, Bantam

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• She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her.

  Christine Feehan

  Pain, Eye, Dark

  Christine Feehan (2008). “Turbulent Sea”, p.145, Penguin

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• It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Horse, Moving, Eye

  "Scenes from a provincial life" by AS Byatt, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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• incurable lover of the grotesque

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Grotesque

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. Lovecraft Complete Collection”, p.884, H. P. Lovecraft

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• It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Character, Forever, Lost

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.427, Macmillan

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• Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

  Lionel Shriver

  Passion, Bricks, Communicate

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper

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• She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.

  David Gilmour

  Oxygen, Talking, People

  David Gilmour (2008). “Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son”, p.73, Dundurn

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• There would be no wedding for me. No bridal hopes. Not with Seth, not with anyone. Those things were lost to me forever. There was only an eternity alone, no lifelong lovers, only those I shared a night with…. - Georgina

  Richelle Mead

  Night, Forever, Would Be

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• If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Hands, Different

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