Louis de Bernieres Quotes

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.

For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

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

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

Somewhere I just want to find someone that's going to love me forever no matter what; I want someone to show the inside of my head to. That thought keeps me going.

If you love someone truly, just look into her eyes. You will find your soul in her.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

You were perfect – perfect for me – and I love you

I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

Love is hard to find, but love is one of a kind.

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

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

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

I wish I could be whole for you…I wish I could hold you and dance with you, take you in my arms and make love to you the way I want to. (Adron) And I’m just grateful I have you at all. It’s not your body or face that I love, Adron. It’s your heart, your soul, and your mind. (Livia)

Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.