My Love…
Has it really been twenty-six years since we met and fell in love? Our magical time lasted only for about eighteen months, but those old feelings still resonate in me with the beautiful tones of a once in a lifetime love.
American actor, writer and speaker James Earl Jones
One
of the
hardest
things
in
life
is
having
words
in
your
heart
that
you
can’t
utter.
My Love…
You left me long ago. My mistakes were too big for you to forget. It’s been years since I held you or we kissed, but I cherish you as the love of my lifetime. There has been no contender since, nor do I believe there will ever be.
From “A Million Little Pieces” by American writer James Frey
The
wounds
that
never
heal
can
only
be
mourned
alone.
Love…
…renews, reshapes and reforms within itself. Like skin sloughs off a human body and is ever being made new, the heart does likewise with its precious contents. Love must be made and remade or else it starts to wither and die.
From “The Lovely Bones” by American Novelist Alice Sebold
I
fell
in
love
with
you
again
while
you
were
away…
Love…
…gives me hope. I know the one my heart will find peace with is out there; maybe a stranger or someone I already know. Some way, some how, some day, some where, you and I will be together.
From “Love, Stargirl” by American novelist Jerry Spinelli
You be you
and I’ll be me…
and let’s trust
the future
to tomorrow.
Let the stars
keep track of us.
Let us ride
our own orbits
and trust that
they will meet.
May our reunion
be not a finding
but a sweet
collision
of destinies!
Love…
…gives me patient strength. I know you have things to work through and commitments to keep. No matter; I’ll keep waiting for you, hoping for ‘some day’. I have no choice. I’m so in love with you my heart will allow nothing else.
By James Frey/Jobie Hughes under pseudonym ‘Pittacus Lore’
I don’t
know where
you have to go
or what you
have to do,
but I’ll wait
for you..
Every bit
of my heart
belongs to you,
whether
you ask for it
or not.”
Love…
…separated by years, is still the same love. Though we were long ago parted, there is a place in my heart no one else will ever touch. I have loved since and may love yet again, but never as deeply as I love you.
Dutch-Born Catholic priest and spiritual writer Hans Nouwens
In
true
love
the
smallest
distance
is too
great,
and the
greatest
distance
can be
bridged
Love…
…can be unavoidably insane when the emotion is deep and true. To carry a flame for a person one hasn’t seen in years and years is crazy. But I’d rather be thought an unwise and silly fool than to give up the love in my heart I carry for you.
French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Françoise Sagan
I have
loved
to the point
of madness;
that which
is called
madness;
that which
to me,
is the only
sensible way
to love.
Love…
…for you will always be here waiting. Whether you come find me one day or I just imagine that happening for the rest of my life, I will love you in a way that is not possible for me to love anyone else.
Sung by Frankie Vallie/written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
You’re just too good to be true
Can’t take my eyes off of you
You’d be like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At long last love has arrived
And I thank God I’m alive
You’re just too good to be true
Can’t take my eyes off of you
Pardon the way that I stare
There’s nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
So if you feel like I feel
Please let me know that it’s real
You’re just too good to be true
Can’t take my eyes off of you
Love…
…spoken as a child was “I like you”; as teenager as “love ya”; in the 20’s with “I love you”; when 30-something “I love you with all I am”; middle-aged 40’s as “I will always love you” and now in my 50’s I say “I love you even though you’re no longer here”.
German psychologist and philosopher, Erich Fromm
Immature
love
says
“I love you
because
I need you.”
Mature
love
says
“I need you
because
I love you.
Love…
…stirs deeply when we look at each other. Making eye contact with you is one the single most uplifting experiences I have ever known. In those moments we connect to be one living and breathing being; apart, no longer complete.
From “Deliriium” by American author Lauren Oliver
As soon as I look up,
his eyes click onto my face.
The breath whooshes
out of my body and
everything freezes
for a second, as though
I’m looking at him
through my camera lens,
zoomed in all the way,
the world pausing
for that tiny span of time
between the opening
and closing of the shutter.
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