Amelie Nothomb Quotes

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

I love thee, and it is my love that speaks

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

Fang, fang. I love you. I looooove you. I love you thiiiiiiiiiis much!

I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."

12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.

I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin

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

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

What will always remain is love, passion and family time.

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.