Quotes About Love Holding You Back

#1. She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she'd exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

James Dashner

#2. My aunt used to tell me that trust was like a plate. Once it was broken, it didn't matter how much glue you used to put it back together; it would never be the same. So here I am holding onto the broken fragments of our love - our marriage - trying not to cut myself with them. Some

Mia Asher

#3. I always want us to be like this, connected, sharing everything with each other. Not holding anything back, no matter how the other person may feel."
"You have my word from this point forward. No matter what.

Nicole Gulla

#4. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.

Christopher Poindexter

#5. I wonder, though ... what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.

Jenny Han

#6. Ares's power was causing my anger. He'd love it if I attacked. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction.

Rick Riordan

#7. When you loved someone, you couldn't hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.

Martina Boone

#8. Halfway back up the hillside, Cecilia reached behind her, and it seemed the most natural thing in the world for Brian to lean forward to take her hand.

Davis Bunn

#9. All you need do is forgive. Resentment is an anchor holding you back from that which you desire most. Find the angel within you; cut the anchor line and beat your wings. The winds of forgiveness will stir a hurricane of healing and call up a tide of love that can carry you home.

Emily March

#10. It means ... I really like you.' His hand was in his hair again. Holding it back. 'Like, really like you. And I want that kiss to be the start of something. Not the end.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand.

Rosamund Lupton

#12. I love you, Caitlin.
I leaned in and kissed him, holding back the tears in the realization that he was able to put into words what I was willing to lose my life over.

Anna Lazaridis

#13. My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.

Penelope Douglas

#14. Always told me what he wanted and needed . . . how good he felt when I made love to him. He was holding himself back, denying me the satisfaction of knowing I pleased him.

Sylvia Day

#15. People don't tell others when they lose interest, just like they don't tell others when they love them. And then they wonder why they are so unhappy.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. Holding you
Watching night turn to day
Turn to night
And back to day again
Loving you
Loving us
Loving

Ron Bishop

#17. Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

Judith Viorst

#19. She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb.
Her fingers were trembling.
Park shifted in his seat and turned his back to the aisle.
"Okay?" she whispered.
He nodded, taking a deep breath. They both stared down at their hands.
Jesus.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Aberjhani

#21. This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you're so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape's holding!

Sara Quin

#22. She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.

Dianna Hardy

#23. How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'

Thomas S. Monson

#24. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.

Madeleine L'Engle

#25. Are you in love with him?'
She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.
'Are you in love with me?'
She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

Tan Redding

#26. Sex is a commitment ... Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands ... and when you give yourself both mentally and physically ... well, you're completely vulnerable.

Judy Blume

#27. I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

Odette Annable

#28. Caroline, I love the shit out of you. So calm down and just tell me what you need. No more holding back. And then I'll tell you what I need, and we'll figure out how to work it out.

Alice Clayton

#29. He gently takes the lead, and I trail behind him up the narrow spiral stairway at the back of the kitchen. His hand is warm, and holding it feels like the easiest thing in the world. Too easy. I'm going to get myself in trouble.

Lisa Daily

#30. Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky;
wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

Joshua Harris

#31. No more holding back.
Be reckless.
Tell your Love to everybody.

Rumi

#32. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis

#33. Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Louise Erdrich

#34. If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

David Deida

#35. If you say you can't, you won't!
The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.

Jody Provost

#36. Scratch marks on the back, sore muscles and bruised hip bones won't get you into a woman's heart or mind ... Gentle whispers and holding her hand will.

Alice Walsh

#37. It's easy to lock your heart with hatred. But only when it's free will you be able to move forward without pain anchoring you to a past that's holding you back.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#38. Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

Holly Lynn Payne

#39. We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

Richard Brautigan

#40. Soft and sweet, and burning like fire all at once, his lips clung to mine desperately. His large hand cupped the back of my head,pulling me even closer, and my arms wrapped around his neck holding him close. His kiss devoured me and left me aching for more.

Jamie Canosa

#41. I don't say sweet things and make love and all that bullshit. I like sex hard and rough, no holding back.

Joanna Wylde

#42. Stop holding back those desires you've been too ashamed to admit.

Auliq Ice