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  • #1
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: ignorance, innocence, wickedness
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    Graham Greene
    “Innocence is a kind of insanity”
    ― Graham Greene, The Quiet American
    tags: innocence, innocent, insanity
    350 likes

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  • #3
    “YOU YOU YOU

    your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook
    crackling and yellow, curling at the edges
    a book of myths
    in which i do not appear.”
    ― Clint Catalyst, Caresses Soft as Sandpaper
    tags: absence, clint-catalyst, eyes, poem, short, unrequited-love
    30 likes

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  • #4
    “When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within.”
    ― Johnathan Jena
    tags: beauty, darkness, darkness-and-light, inner-strength, inspirational, light, night, pain, resilience
    29 likes

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  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    1363 likes

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  • #6
    E.E. Cummings
    “Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: love, moon, stars, sun
    2401 likes

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  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: light, moon, sense-of-wonder, stars
    2443 likes

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  • #8
    Jarod Kintz
    “Love has a certain weightlessness to it, much as my meaty penis would on the moon.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
    73 likes

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  • #9
    Langston Hughes
    “Cheap little rhymes
    A cheap little tune
    Are sometimes as dangerous
    As a sliver of the moon.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: danger, moon, poem, poetry, rhymes, tunes
    87 likes

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  • #10
    Sanober Khan
    “when I finally begin to drift
    into sleep
    your memory is the...first
    and the moonlight
    the last, to kiss my face.”
    ― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
    tags: dreaming, kiss, memories, midnight, moonlight, night, peaceful, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, serenity, sleep, stars
    25 likes

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  • #11
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: desire, loneliness, love, lust, passion, sex
    2478 likes

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  • #12
    Mother Teresa
    “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, love, smile
    582 likes

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  • #13
    Jeremy Aldana
    “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”
    ― Jeremy Aldana
    644 likes

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    Kristan Higgins
    “She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.”
    ― Kristan Higgins, Somebody to Love
    118 likes

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    Jarod Kintz
    “She has a sly smile, and eyes that seem to see my essence as they explore my soul and implore my spirit to enter her. I look at her and I see love.”
    ― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
    139 likes

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  • #16
    Brad Thor
    “... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.”
    ― Brad Thor, The Apostle
    tags: kill, smile
    99 likes

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  • #17
    Ann Brashares
    “She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time”
    ― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
    tags: infatuation, smile
    97 likes

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  • #18
    John Green
    “I thought you hung the moon.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: infatuation
    170 likes

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  • #19
    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “It seemed as though Theodore's passion for Alice far exceeded his genuine knowledge of her.”
    ― Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    tags: adolescence, college-romance, infatuation
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    John Green
    “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: unrequited-love
    8558 likes

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  • #21
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma
    tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love
    4516 likes

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  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: fidelity, infatuation, love, unrequited-love
    1413 likes

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  • #23
    “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
    ― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly
    tags: kill-me-softly, love, real-love, sarah-cross, unrequited-love
    1655 likes

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  • #24
    Ai Yazawa
    “His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him”
    ― Ai Yazawa, 天使なんかじゃない―完全版 1 [Tenshi nanka janai - Kanzenban 1]
    tags: romance, unrequited-love
    350 likes

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  • #26
    Francesca Lia Block
    “I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels
    tags: love, unrequited-love
    257 likes

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  • #27
    Shannon L. Alder
    “True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    371 likes

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  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: beauty, flowers, happiness, joy
    453 likes

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  • #29
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: beauty, imperfections
    3898 likes

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  • #30
    Anne Brontë
    “But he who dares not grasp the thorn
    Should never crave the rose.”
    ― Anne Bronte
    tags: beauty, defenses, roses, thorns
    3438 likes

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  • #31
    William Goldman
    “Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: absurd, beauty, conceit, humor, love
    1797 likes



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