Daphne du Maurier Quotes

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

I swear to you, Patch, to take your love and cherish it. And in return, to give you my body and my heart—everything I possess, I give to you. I am yours. Wholly and completely. Love me. Protect me. Fulfill me. And I promise to do the same.” ~ Nora + Patch

I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine.

Love is where it's at. I'm not speaking of sexual love. I'm talking about where you love each other, want to do the best for each other and just just are happy you found each other.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Ethan: I love you, I whispered in her ear. She held my face in her hands and leaned back so she could look at me. Lena: I don't think I could ever love anything the way I love you.

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

I turned my face up to his. I could hardly look at him the same way. I was crying without realizing I'd started. "You made a deal with Hank. You saved my life. Why would you do that for me?" "Angel," he murmured, clasping my face between his hands. "I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.