Quotes About Messy Love

#1. He smelled like leather and water. "I think," she said quietly, now that their mouths were close to each other, "that easy and clean love is not true. It is simply convenient. Messy love, though ... that is something to revel in.

Chelsea Fine

#2. But love is anything but rational. Love is ugly, and messy. Love makes no fucking sense. And I love him, as impossible as that may be.

J.M. Darhower

#3. I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

Velcrow Ripper

#4. Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a fucking piece of you before it's done.

R.K. Lilley

#5. Messy love is better than none,
I guess. I am no authority
on sane living.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Love didn't seem like something that could be organized or contained; it should be messy and emotional, like exploding and imploding with someone at the exact same time.

Rita Stradling

#7. In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

Norbert Leo Butz

#8. I don't like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you. This is uncharted territory for me, but I need to know that at the end of the night, I have you to come home to.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#9. Something inside her recognized the potential for more with him. Either they fell in love and she became tethered to him, or a broken heart was in her future. Better to stop anything from developing at all. Before love became too messy, too addicting, too complicated to escape.

Beth Caudill

#10. When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!

Bob Goff

#11. And that's what love does, it wipes out all the messy parts so you can see the picture clear.

Zetta Elliott

#12. If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a messy human life without being ashamed of loving someone.

Shannon McKenna

#13. Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

Courtney Love

#14. I'm trying to be more put-together. My closets are very messy. I like Rebecca Minkoff; her clothes are casual, but cool. I love Band of Outsiders. And ASOS makes a lot of good stuff. I can get lost on their website for hours. I don't like to spend a lot of money on clothes.

Morgan Saylor

#15. Love is a lot like humanity, neither one is perfect. I'd spent years obsessing over perfection. I'd spent years living inside a bubble thinking that perfection equals love,but it doesn't. It's not love unless it's messy and wild and flawed because nothing real is perfect.

Lauren Hammond

#16. In a black and white world, Chase and I would never end up together - our mothers had ensured that - but in that small bathroom, under the harsh fluorescent lights, we dragged each other deeper into the gray - the messy, guilt-ridden space that sat between right and wrong.

R.S. Grey

#17. As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and expect to do good work. Life is one of those experiments meant to be conducted in a stimulating, messy environment.

Sara Zarr

#18. Love comes in all kinds of packages. Some are neatly tied up, and some are messy. It doesn't mean that the messy ones aren't every bit as good.

S. Walden

#19. My life will not follow a fairy tale, and that's okay. My life is reality. And in my reality people don't fall in love and get married and live happily ever after, because life is complicated. And messy.

Kim Holden

#20. Jesus operates beyond the tidy boundaries of good behavior. Rather than simply enforce His rules, we should show our kids His kingdom. That's where they'll discover a Savior to fall in love with. Out where life is messy and relationships are complicated. Where

Jen Hatmaker

#21. Messy spirituality is the delirious consequence of a life ruined by a Jesus who will love us right into his arms.

Michael Yaconelli

#22. I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.

Loretta Lux

#23. Emotional attachments are messy. They end with broken hearts and stalking.

Lauren Barnholdt

#24. You tried to show me that love isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it's messy. But most of the time, it's as simple as blood, or just being there for each other. But,

Kade Boehme

#25. Sometimes life was messy and got in the way. But wasn't that part of the beauty of falling in love and being in a relationship? You figured things out together as you grew, and faced the challenges that life enjoyed the hell out of throwing at you.

J. Sterling

#26. Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Ashley Smith

#27. Yes, you are still grieving for the fact that Olly is not loving you as you love him. But death is no solution. Certainly not this horrible, messy death. Could you at least not consider possible option that is not leaving you looking diabolical at funeral?"
Oh, for the love of God.

Lucy Holliday

#28. Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and brings out the absolute worst along with the best in you. It hurts because it forces you to confront every aspect of yourself. It forces you out of your comfort zone.

Jessica Gadziala

#29. You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.

Anne Lamott

#30. I mean "God" as shorthand for the Good, for the animating energy of love; for Life, for the light that radiates from within people and from above; in the energies of nature, even in our rough, messy selves.

Anne Lamott

#31. Love is not about want.
Love is not about good.
Love doesn't let you walk away clean.
Love is messy.
Love takes a fucking piece of you before it's done.
If it is ever even possible to be done.

R.K. Lilley

#32. Love's always a messy affair better left to young hearts

Mary E. Pearson

#33. But it's high school. It's not real love, or at least you can't be sure it's real love. Real love is messy and complicated and brutal. It's been tested. Zik and Michelle have never been tested by anything mroe than being separated by a couple of classes.

Barry Lyga

#34. Grayson Dunn is in my head. He's under my skin. He's invaded me like a deadly disease and hijacked my immune system until I don't even bother fighting it anymore. I look at him, and I'm twisted into knots. Tangled into a messy spool of desire and desperation.

Julie Johnson

#35. I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

Erica Jong

#36. Love doesn't make sense. Love happens when you least expect it. It's inconvenient, messy, and reckless, but that's the beauty of it. It isn't a decision; it's a promise - a promise to chase inconvenient, messy, and reckless love with someone who embraces the chaos with you." I

Monica James

#37. Because you don't get to choose your parents, , and at some point you realise that maybe your parents just aren't able to parent very well, but we exist, and the only choice we've got in the whole situation is whether we're gonna love them anyway. It's as simple and messy and complicated as that

Megan Jacobson

#38. Love isn't always clean and pretty--sometimes it's messy, cruel, and confusing. And sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But then, the beauty of love is that it's very strong, and when it's real, it's worth it.

Heather Lyons

#39. I'm not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, 'For the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention.' I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#40. It's a messy business
being alive. But I'd rather have this short time with those I love than have an easy time. We forget about the things we saw that morning,and we choose to build a bigger sandcastle.

Emm Cole

#41. Want loud and messy and crazy. I want crayons on the wall and bicycles in the driveway and playing ball in the backyard. I want to teach my kids to read and climb trees and drive a standard. I want noise and laughter and yelling and the kind of love that can't ever be broken.

Shannon Stacey

#42. This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know how our story will end. but I know it will start. I pick up my pen and begin to write:
My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something.

Michelle Hodkin

#43. You're staying here, Angel."
"You're taking this one alone?"
"First, Hank can't see us together. Second, I don't like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#44. Love isn't always smooth or straightforward. It can be messy and painful ... Doesn't mean it isn't still the most incredible thing that can ever happen to you.

Kylie Scott

#45. So what do we do?" Alec whispered.
Magnus shrugged and smiled suddenly; with his messy black hair and the gleam in his gold-green eyes, he looked like a mischievous teenager. "what everyone else does," he replied. "Like you said. Hope.

Cassandra Clare

#46. Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

Matt Dillon

#47. He was confused. I was confused. Just like every couple who ever had to climb over a few stumbling blocks was confused. That was romance.It wasn't paint-by-numbers or color within the lines. It was messy and scribbly and up to us to draw it how we wanted.

Pepper Winters

#48. Love is messy. It means arguing and making up and laughing and crying and struggling and sometimes it doesn't seem worth it. But it is. And at the end when you're in love, no matter what happens, you forgive each other.

Anon

#49. Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love.

Julie Johnson

#50. The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and recording. It's messy and time consuming and people might fall in love and get hurt.

Laurel Nakadate

#51. Love isn't something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.

Amy Engel

#52. I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!

Zoe Sugg

#53. Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

David W. Earle

#54. In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business - and I wanted to try to reflect that.

John Green

#55. the Ben Franklin Bridge that would take her back to the City of Brotherly Love and to the comforts of her messy home. Relief should have been the last thing on her mind since the bridge spanned the Schuylkill River,

Anne McAneny

#56. While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

Quentin Crisp

#57. Not everyone has a shiny, perfect kind of love. Sometimes it's messy, complicated, and painful. It doesn't lessen the depth of the feelings involved though.

Sydney Landon

#58. When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

Alexandra Stoddard

#59. Because eventually, no matter what the circumstances, he would see the real me. Josh is a beautiful, messy, passionate work of art, and I'm ... a blank canvas. There's nothing here to love.

Stephanie Perkins

#60. i'm not scared
of the monsters

hidden underneath
my bed.

i'm much more scared
of the boys

with messy brown hair,
sleepy eyes,

& mouths
that only know

how to form
half-truths.

Amanda Lovelace

#61. Love is messy, painful and emotionally draining. It hardly seems worth it.

Alice Clayton

#62. We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Henry Bromell

#63. Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities
the good ones
are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.

Susan Wojcicki

#64. I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

R. YS Perez

#65. I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you, Gulliver.

Nora Roberts

#66. What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of death and insecurity about penis size.

Charlie Kaufman

#67. I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.

Ka Hancock

#68. Love isn't a fairy tale.

It's messy.

It's dirty.

It's painful, and it's ugly.

Until it's not....

Jordan Marie

#69. Maybe love made you kiss all messy. Maybe love made you hungry for faces.

J.M. Darhower

#70. Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. Not interested. Love's messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.

Libba Bray

#71. Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved... that's all that matters.

Jennifer Donnelly

#72. I love your hair! It's kind of messy but like, done.

Giuliana Rancic

#73. These things ... they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.

Laura Dave

#74. Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Karen Armstrong

#75. Oh yeah, I'm definitely a tomboy! I love sports, hate dresses, don't own a single pair of high-heels, am not a fan of makeup, and I'm not afraid to get messy!

Jennette McCurdy

#76. I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

Kristin Kreuk

#77. Stephanie's vaginal teeth scrape against him as she makes love to him. Kevin cringes as she presses her messy head wound against his cheek. He doesn't enjoy the sex. It feels like he's getting a really bad blowjob from a girl with big teeth and a small mouth.

Carlton Mellick III

#78. Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

Regina Brett

#79. I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I'm a minimalist at heart.

Ariana Madix

#80. Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#81. As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.

Kether Donohue

#82. Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

Danielle Steel

#83. When you like someone, you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy.

Jocelyn Davies

#84. Love is many things. It's every raw human emotion rolled up into one messy four letter word. There's no rule book and definitely no guarantees.

J.L. Berg

#85. This overwhelming, encompassing feeling is love. It's not perfect and it's messy as hell. And it's exactly what I need.

Katie McGarry

#86. I'm in love with him.
And I always have been.
Only this time, it's for real.
It's not a fantasy, it's far from it.
It's raw and it's messy and it's beautiful.
And it's mine.

Karina Halle