Alice Munro Quotes

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.

I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Love is a very strong emotion and a very powerful emotion.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead against her hard snout and held her as tightly as he could, her scales sharp against his fingers. Hot tears began to slide down his cheeks. 'Why do you cry?' she asked. 'Because... I'm lucky enough to be bonded with you.' 'Little one.

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

I have so much of you in my heart.

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Sweet,” he whispered, and stole a kiss from her lips. “Sweet… let me stay with you a little longer.” -Jack to Amanda

I want whatever part of you I can have.

A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.

My favorite song that I wrote is 'Love Line.' This was my first song that I wrote lyrics for, and I really wanted to express the feeling when you're in love and hoping the other person feels the same way.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.