William Alexander Percy Quotes

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly. "I'm not crazy," I whispered. "I know." Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me. And I kind of loved him for it.

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

You are the one, I think I'm in love... life has begun.

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

Our love is God, let's go get a Slushie.

Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.

We can't stop the world, but there's so much more that we could do You can't stop this girl from falling more in love with you You said nobody has to know Give us time to grow, and take it slow but I'd stop the world if it finally let us be alone Let us be alone oooo ohhh oh

You were perfect.” Cam dipped his mouth to mine. “Only because I was with you.

I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.