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    E.R. Wade
    “As soon as I saw her, I knew I had to stay far away from her. Being with her makes me feel like I’ve been starving for so long. Sofia has given me a taste of something I didn’t know I wanted. Something I am now desperate for. Her.”
    ― E.R. Wade
    tags: adult-romance, contemporary-romance, forbidden-love, love, love-story, office-romance, romance, secret
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    Robert James Waller
    “It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.”
    ― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
    tags: love
    205 likes

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    Robert James Waller
    “The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
    ― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
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    Julie Garwood
    “One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent”
    ― Julie Garwood
    tags: roar-of-discontent, the-secret, whisper
    62 likes

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    Julia Quinn
    “You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
    ― Julia Quinn
    tags: romance, writing
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    Tabitha Suzuma
    “It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.”
    ― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
    tags: desire
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
    tags: desire, disatisfaction, life
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    Dark Jar Tin Zoo
    “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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    ― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
    tags: alibi, crazy, desire, funny, humor, husband, insane, justification, justify, love, murder, necessity, need, relationships, time, want, wife, woman, women, word-junkies, yearn
    288 likes

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    Ann Aguirre
    “I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”
    ― Ann Aguirre, Doubleblind
    tags: desire, love
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    Lisa Kleypas
    “I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life...to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.”
    ― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
    tags: longing, love, lovers, reunion
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    Robert Goolrick
    “If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
    ― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
    tags: longing, love, sad, searching, unrequited-love
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    Stephanie Laurens
    “Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”
    ― Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal
    tags: apart, demon-cynster, longing, love, romance
    675 likes

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    Stephanie Laurens
    “My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.”
    ― Stephanie Laurens, The Edge of Desire
    tags: adoration, dream, longing, love, need, romance, yearning
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    Stephanie Laurens
    “Climb every mountain , Ford Every stream
    Follow every rainbow ,'Till you find your dream”
    ― Stephanie Laurens, A Rake's Vow
    tags: climb, dreams, finding-love, rainbow
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    Stephanie Laurens
    “You, me---we're not the same, but we---our lives---somehow fit together.”
    ― Stephanie Laurens, Where the Heart Leads
    tags: romance
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    Stephanie Laurens
    “She drew a swift breath, and let it out on the words: "I love you—more than I've ever loved anyone. I love you so profoundly it goes beyond all reason. And I could never let you go—let you be taken from me—that would be the same as letting life itself go, because you are life to me.”
    ― Stephanie Laurens, Devil's Bride
    tags: i-love-you, let-go
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    Stephanie Laurens
    “My heart only have one thought, one want. One néed. Despite all, in spite of all....All my heart has ever wanted is you.”
    ― Stephanie Laurens
    tags: inperational
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    tags: lie, scarlett, unrequited-love
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    Melissa Jensen
    “sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”
    ― Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
    tags: love, unrequited-love
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    Robert Fulghum
    “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
    tags: love, weirdness
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  • #21
    John Lennon
    “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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  • #24
    Maya Angelou
    “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: being-loved, courage, laugh, love, loving
    1614 likes

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  • #25
    “He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.”
    ― Demi Lovato
    tags: being-loved, life, love, true-love
    1133 likes



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