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Speaking to my heart today.

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers

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“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”

— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

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“There’s no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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“A girl who feels needed is already a quarter way in love.”

— John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

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“Loving you meant loving every part of you, the good and the bad, the easy and the hard.”

— Tara Sivec, Fisher’s Light

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“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”

— Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate

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“I would like you to stay and talk with me but I don’t want you to feel that you have to just because I’m here.”

— W.S. Merwin, Yesterday

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“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

— Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There’s no getting over that.”

— Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

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“In my head I know I’ve been in love before, but it doesn’t feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.”

— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

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“Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”

— Mia Sheridan, Archer’s Voice

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“I don’t just want to take your breath away. I want to rip it from your mouth and keep it locked away between my teeth. You can only have it back if you kiss me again.”

— Meggie Royer, Literary Sexts

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“I’d cry, if only I had the time to do it.”

— Kathyrn Stockett, The Help