“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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“Squee.” 1 (verb): To emit an onomatopoetic girlish swooning sound out of pure fanboy adulation. 2 (noun): the sound itself.”
― Neil Patrick Harris, quote from Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
“A fun thing to do to let off steam after layoffs began was to go into someone's office and send an email from their computer addressed to the entire agency. It might say something simple like "My name is Shaw-NEE! You are captured, Ha! I poopie I poopie I poopie." People came in in the morning and their reaction was so varied.
Jim Jackers read it and immediately sent out an email that we read, "Obviously someone come into my office last night and compossed an email in my name and sent it out to everyone. I apologise for any inconvenience or offence, although it wasn't my fault, and I would appreciate from whoever did this a public apology. I have read that email five times now and I still don't understand it.”
― Joshua Ferris, quote from Then We Came to the End
“They say in the old tales that when a man and a woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. Their gaze is a rope of gold binding each to the other. Even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. They can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, quote from Sister of My Heart
“La ley básica del universo es la ley de economía. El universo no desperdicia ni un solo quark; todo sirve a un propósito y encaja en un equilibrio; no”
― David R. Hawkins, quote from Power vs. Force
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