Charles Bukowski Quotes

I believe in love at first sight, and I feel sometimes you have to just be open to whatever love is and let yourself fall.

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

How did they know?.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

The moment you know you know you know.

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.

If you know me so well, tell me which hand that I use.

Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories. "Well, now, here's a pickle.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

My husband knows me better than anyone.

All you have to do is be able to feel.

The first instinct is love.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.