Night had fallen, and Diane admired the deep sky behind Steve’s calm countenance. They looked into each other’s eyes again and felt the spark and excitement of discovery. As if to celebrate the perfect, life-enabling distance of the earth from the sun, Diane and Steve kissed again.””-The Grand Unified Story (a Short Story) from Stories...

In this life I choose you.

If my time loving you has taught me anything, it’s that love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it’s finished nothing destroys it.

Leo, I have another secret. I’ve fallen in love with you.” “I’ve always loved you.

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,’I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I’m signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It’s going to be hard but I want to...

I remain exquisitely still. Anytime the eagle of another heart soars, whatever you are-mouse, toad, snake- don’t move. From such great heights, it might not see you.

God is such a cruel godfor making you so wonderful,and for making me so weak.

my lovefor youwill always belike a mountain stream.quiet. persistent. continuous.

your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.

To fall in love with someone’s thoughts – the most intimate, splendid romance.

[…] when you know, you know. And you don’t fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there’s someone there to catch you on the other side.

You’ll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen times…the wrong way…to love THAT ONE…the right way…YOU!

It’s the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy.It’s what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth. I’m seeing her for the first time. Not Ava Garden Wilder, the rags-to-riches granddaughter of Clyde Jones. Not a tragic, romantic heroine. Just Ava.And I am utterly in love.

He is my unicorn, though… That’s how I felt falling in love with him, as if I’d found a creature of myth.

When did I start feeling so safe with him? I guess knowing that my friends wouldn’t set me up with some psycho criminal helps.

I suspect she will be like air. Like knowing how to breathe.

If I get that girl’s number I will never ask another girl for her number again.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

Don’t you see what’s happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn’t intend to keep.

I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don’t pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. 

Everywhere I read, I see a rush for love, if it comes knocking and your not ready you’ll miss it; bla bla fucking bla… If love is, LOVE it wouldn’t miss me and if it did, it wasn’t worth my time to begin with. Never should the most important emotion of our journey be rushed.

Today’s problem is that people are quickly falling in love and falling out of it just as quickly.

You came to my lifewith what you were bringing,madeof light and bread and shadow I expected you,and Like this I need you,Like this I love you,and to those who want to hear tomorrowthat which I will not tell them, let them read it here,and let them back off today because it is earlyfor these arguments.

A perfect night… a perfect forever

What they have been teaching us is wrong. Yes, we do have control over our choices. Why? Because life gave us the freedom to choose. The only downside to this freedom are the insatiable consequences we shall have to face because of the choices we learned to embrace.

His gaze was so soft that she would like to wrap herself with it.

It’s like all my life I’ve been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I’m not a tower at all. I’m a lighthouse. It’s like waking up. I am incandescent.

… i didn’t fall in love of courseit’s never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through

You know you’re in love the moment you can touch the stars without reaching. -Morgan

I have made twice mistake in my whole life; both falling in love with the wrong people.

It is great joy to love and be loved.

There’s not protocol for falling in love with someone. There’s no game plan to tell you when it’s appropriate to do certain things, say other things.

Of all the misconceptions about love the most powerful and pervasive is the belief that “falling in love” is love or at least one of the manifestations of love. It is a potent misconception, because falling in love is subjectively experienced in a very powerful fashion as an experience of love. When a person falls...

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits. The tornado’s intensity doesn’t abate for a second as...

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.

To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As when, before a masterpiece, the acid throat contracts, and words are millstones, so when the supernaturally outlandish happens and a...

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Men know the damage a few words can do to girls’ hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us

Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.

Falling in love is not a spur of the moment thing. There wasn’t love at first sight as I always believed there to be. It crept and overpowered me. Once I was in its power, it was the most amazing feeling in the world.

Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can’t move.

How do you not fall in love with him?”The tears begin flowing just as quickly as they were ceasing. I grab yet another tissue. “I don’t not fall in love with him. I don’t not fall in love with him a lot!

He looked up and I realised how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly light-headed, but not like before when I’d passed out. Being so close to the smooth dark skin of his face, getting lost in the shifting shades of his green eyes, it felt like...

Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.

I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I’d sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you.

One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can’t be.

It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it’s powerful. Like gravity–an unstoppable force.

Fall in love, not fool in love.