Lover's Dictionary Quotes

#1. If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Charlize Theron

#2. If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.

Lupe Fiasco

#3. Abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan

#4. Belittle, v.
No, I don't listen to the weather in the morning. No, I don't keep track of what I spend. No, it hadn't occurred to me that the Q train would have been much faster. But every time you give me that look, it doesn't make me want to live up to your standards.

David Levithan

#5. Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

Finn Jones

#6. [Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

David Levithan

#8. If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. The ignorance of the dark-skinned strata, despite the government's ceaseless educational campaigns. No wonder their women were often preg.

Philip K. Dick

#10. I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

Rabindranath Tagore

#11. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

David Levithan

#12. Elliptical, adj.
The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

David Levithan

#13. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-"
Lily: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

#15. In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.

Dale Carnegie

#16. Commonplace, adj.
... But then I'll walk into the bathroom and find you've forgotten to put the cap back on the toothpaste again, and it will be this splinter that I just keep stepping on.

David Levithan

#17. So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Martin Luther King Jr.