Olive Schreiner Quotes

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.

Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.

You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine.

We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

I believe there are some things meant only for you and the person you love.

You date somebody, and you have this obviously intense experience where you share a life together in whatever way that is for how many years.

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