Love Taboo Quotes

#1. Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Mal Peet

#2. I think I like you," I muttered, pressing my face to his muscled torso in a hug. I felt his heartbeat under my ear.
"I think I like you back.

L.J. Shen

#3. I hoped I never saw him again. If I ever had to look at him again, if he looked at me the way he did that day, it would break me.

Jenny Han

#4. You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak

#5. Playing bad is always more fun than playing good.

Heather Locklear

#6. To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy.

Richelle Mead

#8. We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Christina Stead

#9. It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.

Rachel Cusk

#10. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

Gerald Durrell

#11. If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try."
"Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

Leah Raeder

#12. Compassion stirs us to remove the pain of the world. Justice stirs us to remove its cause.

Randy Lewis

#13. When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.

Stephan Attia

#14. But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?

Maryam Schonbeck

#15. I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

Jess C. Scott

#16. One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

Hope Solo

#17. You can talk good ideas out of existence.

Vikram Seth

#18. The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

Larry Kramer

#19. Once you break one taboo, others soon come thumgbling down. Once you start rolling downhill, you carry on rolling until you reach the lowest point. For someone with no aim in life and who has never known love, leading a respectable life seems utterly pointless and unbearable.

Rika Yokomori

#20. Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

L.J. Shen

#21. You love it when I'm disgusting. In fact, the dirtier I talked, the more you screamed. The sooner you admit that, the easier it will be for both of us. I only ask for one day from you, AJ. One day for my lost opportunity.

Jaimie Roberts

#22. What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.

Aleatha Romig

#23. You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)

Inigo Garcia Ureta

#24. Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always.

L.J. Shen

#25. I'm in love with my second cousin.

Bob Dylan

#26. I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#27. I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Pope Francis

#28. Why the anchor?"
"Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.

L.J. Shen

#29. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty
some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Richard P. Feynman

#30. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it.

Czeslaw Milosz

#31. You feel pretty ,manly to me," I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes.
"And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.

L.J. Shen

#32. I'm a virgin Mr Cohen," Carrie said, "I've never been with a man before.

Kassandra Cross

#33. What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

Jeanette Winterson