Charlaine Harris Quotes

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

If you love someone and you choose to spend the rest of your life with that person, that's your partner in every way.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

I think when you're looking for a lifetime partnership, intimacy is obviously a part of that.

Bayern and I are like a married couple.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

Love is not just defined by making love or kisses or gifts. It is beyond that.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

I think there's nobody closer in the world than your own husband. And we are very passionate about what we do, very competitive.

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

I love you present tense.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.