Quotes by Novelists - Page 144

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
W Somerset Maugham
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
Gabriel García Márquez
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
W Somerset Maugham
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
W Somerset Maugham
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Gabriel García Márquez
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
W Somerset Maugham
nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
Gabriel García Márquez
There is always something left to love.
Gabriel García Márquez
He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.
Gabriel García Márquez
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W Somerset Maugham
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
George R.R. Martin
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
Gabriel García Márquez
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honoré de Balzac
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
Mikhail Lermontov
I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
Anne Rice
And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross.
Leonard Cohen
He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.
Philippa Gregory
You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
Robert Jordan