“Love is like a thief, it robs you of all thought and logic, and all you have left is a heart that you can only pray is strong enough to survive the rest.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“He slowly turned around. “What is love? In English.” I raised my brows. “Love, in English, is love?” “What is it in Spanish?” I was so enthralled by his hypnotic eyes, I could barely remember. “Amore?” He shook his head ever so slightly. “No. Love in Spanish is you.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You can fall in love in a second,” she said with a snap of her fingers. “The heart has no regard for time.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Sometimes you are stuck being the person you are and not the person you were. Or could be.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Design your own universe, make your own stars, write your own stories, and create your own destiny.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“But I’m starting to think that most villains aren’t evil—they are just misunderstood. Or victims of that most manipulative force: love.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“One minute we were a memory in the making, and in the next we were just a memory. Something to haunt me for the rest of my life.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You burn so brightly,” he said, his voice low and rough to raise the hair on my arms. “I would like to burn with you.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Love, our love, had been a shooting star, burning in the darkness, unseen until it got too close, too bright and too quick to capture. It burned out, lost to the deep cold and darkness, to the brutality of space, the infinity above us and in the new emptiness inside of me.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“I'm starting to think that most villains aren't evil - they are just misundertood.
Or victims of that manipulative force: Love.
Love causes war and causes death, breaks souls and breaks lives. It runs people into the ground, makes them behave like moronic, immoral beasts, before it dances off, leaving only destruction in its wake - hearts blown wide open for the whole world to see.
Love puts the blame on the poor souls who succumb to it.
Love, that ultimate villainess. She makes examples of us all.
And yet we still come back for more.
We keep playing the role she gives us.
For one more chance to feel alive.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“That was just existing. That was just chasing down the next day so I could feel it pass under me.” He placed his large hand over my heart. “You made me stop chasing the days. You made me hold onto them.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Take a seat,” I said. “I’m about to go all Nicolas Sparks on your ass.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Hope was a dangerous thing, I knew, but it didn’t stop your heart from latching on to it like a life raft.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars —Gilbert Parker”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“The stars may place us in each other's paths-I dare say that everyone here has been a victim of some sort of celestial fate. Perhaps we were all fated to meet, to be here with each other, but it is up to us to decide to shine or not. The stars are not unreachable. They are not untouchable. And they do not control us.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Sometimes you don't need everyone on your side, you only need a few.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“He looks at you like... like you’re his favorite food.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You shine brighter than the sun"
"But even the sun goes away every night"
"But it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't replace. That is why we hang on to each day we are given.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“The heart had no regard for time, no regard for pain.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You are loney, but you say you like to be alone" I nodded. "I do. I prefer it. But... it doesn't mean I don't want someone to love me. It doesn't mean that I don't have a lot of love in me to give someone”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“His fingertips felt like whispers, telling my skin secrets.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You and I, we were always a memory in the making.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You can’t fall in love in a week,” I told her heatedly. “You can fall in love in a second,” she said with a snap of her fingers. “The heart has no regard for time.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're idiots. We all deserve it. And if people get hurt along the way, that's life. We've all been hurt. Doesn't that make love more crucial to our lives?”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Any last minute advice?” She raised a brow. “Try not to fall in love with anyone,”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“I did not want to live a life with regrets. You only regretted the shit you didn’t do.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“I love you because you are you. You’re a little bit crazy, and I find that more interesting than being normal. You’re passionate and I find that more fascinating than being calm. You’re curious and adventurous and sexual, and you’re full of life and you make me want to be a better man, to live louder, to bend and break all the damn rules.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“You’re saying we can write our own destiny,” I said, feeling too jaded and stubborn in the moment to believe it.
“I am saying,” he said carefully, “that this is not the end of the story. Not the way I am writing it.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Every family needs a black sheep to call them on their bullshit.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
“Dedication For anyone who has ever taken a chance on uncertainty”
― Karina Halle, quote from Love, in English
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“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Nausea
“Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'
A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Two Towers
“A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.”
― Catherine Marshall, quote from Christy
“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from The Wedding
“Dear daughter, I won't try to call my feeling for Arty love. Call it focus. My focus on Art was an ailment, noncommunicable, and, even to me all these years later, incomprehensible. Now I despise myself. But even so I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me.
He saw no use for you and you interfered with his use of me. I sent you away to please him, to prove my dedication to him, and to prevent him from killing you...
My job was to come back [from the convent] directly, with nothing leaking from beneath my dark glasses, to give Arty his rubdown and then paint him for the next show, nodding cheerfully all the while, never showing anything but attentive care for his muscular wonderfulness. Because he could have killed you. He could have cut off the money that schooled and fed you. He could have erased you so entirely that I never would have had those letters and report cards and photos, or your crayon pictures, or the chance to spy on you, and to love you secretly when everything else was gone.”
― Katherine Dunn, quote from Geek Love
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