Quotes

Here are the quotes I have used in my books. Although not always, I try to be creative and never repeat a quote. I did it once so far but here's hoping that was a one time mistake. Hope you enjoy!

Quotes from "Fiona"

“First love is always innocent.” -Oscar Wilde
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.” - Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.” - Daphne du Maurier
“No matter how much time goes by I’ll never forget the first time you looked at me and how I fell in love.” - Anonymous
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” -Hillary Stanton Zunin
“First love is like a wild rose, beautiful and thorny.” - English Proverb
“First love is like a wild rose, beautiful and thorny.” - English Proverb
“The moment you left my life, you took a piece of my soul with you, I take comfort knowing you always carry a little piece of me through life.” – The One That Got Away
“There’s no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.” – Ben Harper
“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”- Maya Angelou
“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” – Vera Nazarian
“The deepest moments of intimacy occur when you’re not talking.” – Patricia Long
“Appreciate the moment of a first kiss, it may be the last time you own your heart.” – R.M. Drake
“It wasn’t like a first kiss because we knew each other too intimately for that. And it wasn’t like a last kiss because we’d only just begun. It was the kiss you spend your whole life waiting for.” – Nicole Williams
“Love is not just being with someone. Love is feeling someone even if miles separate you.” - Wordions
“Being with you turned out to be the wildest, boldest, and the most beautiful adventure I ever took. You’re my crazy adventure.” - Shubhangi
“Family: the only people who can embarrass you and still love you unconditionally.” – Unknown
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them” – Desmond Tutu
“I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“I am my father’s daughter, and I am not afraid of anything.” – Elizabeth I
“Without mutual knowledge there can be no mutual understanding; without understanding, there can be no trust and respect; without trust, there can be no peace, only the danger of conflict.” – Edward Abbey
“Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one” - Unknown
“The day you asked me for my daughter’s hand in marriage was the day I finally stopped worrying about who will look after her when I no longer can.” - Unknown
“I love her and it is the beginning and end of everything.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – J.R.R. Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring
“The more I learned about you as my friend, the deeper I fell for you. Falling into your arms was the greatest moment of my life” - Unknown
“Happiness is seeing the love we’ve shared through the years grow stronger as we strengthen our commitment.” - Unknown
“I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou
“When I say I love you more, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us. I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.” - Unknown
“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale” - Unknown
“I don’t want you to only be a part of my story, I want you to be my happily ever after.” – J. Iron Word
“You are my love story, and I write you into everything I do, everything I see, everything I touch and everything I dream, you are the words that fill my pages.” – A.R. Asher
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes from "Fire"

“Out of the hottest fire comes the strongest steel.” – Chinese Proverb
“If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.” – Suzy Kassem
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn your house down, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.”– C.G. Jung
“They’ve promised that dreams can come true – but forget to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”– Oscar Wilde
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.” – Cicely Tyson
A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept”– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.” – Sophocles
“A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”– Colin Powell
“Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes” – Oscar Wilde
“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.” – Denis Waitley
“At the end of the day, you can either focus on what’s tearing you apart or what’s keeping you together.” - Anonymous
“Love recognizes no barrier. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
“True friends are burning stars; they shine brightest on those darkest nights.”– Atticus
“I told her I was lost in this world, and she smiled, because she was too, we were all lost somehow, but we didn’t care, we had in the chaos, found each other.” - Atticus
“There is something about losing a mother that is permanent and inexpressible-a wound that will never quite heal.” – Susan Wiggs
“The truth always comes out in the end, no matter how hard anyone tries to hide it or stop it. Lies are just a temporary delay to the inevitable.” -Unknown
“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before." Albert Einstein
“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” -Dalai Lama
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“When you love someone, you make mistakes together. You take steps backward together. You recover together. You fumble through the world together, because no matter how long you have been together, there are always going to be new things to learn.” -Holly Riordan
“The only fight you cannot win is the one you are not willing to fight. And the only dream that you cannot make come true is the one you cease to dream.” -Sergio Bambaren
“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.” -John Ed Pearce
“Be with someone who is proud of you, someone you can laugh with, someone who listens to you, understands you, who treats you well and makes you a priority.” -Brigitte Nicole
“One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide.” -Brene Brown
“It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected time and in the most unexpected ways. ' -Napoleon Hill
“Here in this suffering, all previous beliefs are called into question. They are consumed in the fire sparked and fueled by our own illusion. The pain becomes the ashes we are now entombed in. It is only when we find ourselves at this most imprisoned of junctures that we emerge again, the phoenix of our very life which is ever so much more beautiful than the last one.” -Teal Swan
“The night is darkest right before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.” -Harvey Dent (The Dark Knight)
“The longer you have to wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when it finally arrives. The harder you have to fight for something, the more priceless it will become once you achieve it. And the more pain you have to endure on your journey, the sweeter the arrival at your destination. All good things are worth waiting for and worth fighting for.” -Susan Gale
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” -Robert Frost
“Family is the people you miss the most when you’re not with them.” -Anonymous

Quotes from "Soul's Mate"

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain
“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.” -Paulo Coelho
“The thought of being in your arms again makes my heart race. I can’t wait to love you.” -Anonymous
“Every moment, without you feels like an eternity, but when we’re together, I can’t wait to show you just how much you mean to me.” -Anonymous
“You can’t calm the storm… so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” -Timber Hawkeye
“Remember not to fall in love with the one who says the right thing but fall in love with the one who does the right thing.” -Anonymous
“You don’t find love. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, and what’s written in the stars.” -Anais Nin
“Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.” -Leo Rosen
“A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzo – Chinese Philosopher
“Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.” -Pindar
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” -G.K. Chesterton
“Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain
“Courage is found in unlikely places.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
For the first time in my life, naked perfection stands before me. I stare at his long, thick, and very hard erection.” -Auden Dar
“Touch her as if it were your first time. Kiss her as if it were your last time. And every time, make love to her without any concept of TIME.” -Dennis Shepherd
“The moments of happiness we enjoy takes us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” -Ashley Montagu
“Listen to your inner voice, for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty, and truth, ever flowing through you.” -Caroline Joy Adams
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.” -John Ruskin
“Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.” -Anonymous
“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding.” -Anonymous
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.” -Eric Roth
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.” -Anne Frank
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” -Emily Brontë
“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Sometimes the most shocking surprises are also the most beautiful surprises.” -Lori Wilhite
“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” -Giselle C. Viera
“True love stories never have endings.” -Richard Bach
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” -Nicholas Sparks – The Notebook
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Happily ever after doesn’t begin with once upon a time: it begins with now.” -Stephen Mitchell
“Meeting you was not the first day of the rest of my life; it was the first day of the BEST of me life.” -Steve Maraboli
“I lost my way all the way to you and in you I found all the way back to me.” -Atticus
“The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can life the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.” -Walt Disney
“Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it’s the journey between that makes the story worth telling.” -Chris Colfer
“And we wouldn’t live happily ever after, because I don’t believe in such nonsense, but we both had a long, bold, adventure ahead of us, and a great deal to look forward to at last.” -Margaret Rogerson