If, for Italians, the supreme expression of their love of music was the emotionally charged operatic aria, for Russians it was dance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“What about Shop to Kill? I love that one!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As the months rolled by, though, Christine came to love boarding school life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They say that her parents loved her dearly, that she was the apple of their eye. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the way her feet sank into the carpet, the bowls of salty soy nuts, the way their cat snuggled with them on the couch. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

This is not a Persian love story anyway. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Those romances always featured a love affair between a virginal white schoolteacher or preacher’s wife and a half-breed Indian warrior. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I love to see them get angry, don’t you?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what you do all the time. Bird with the broken wing syndrome. Of all the girls out there, you have to fall in love with this one?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Many had been separated from loved ones during the fire and now had the daunting task of searching through a ruined city for them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Milo was crestfallen, but from that moment on he trusted Yossarian with every secret but one, reasoning shrewdly that anyone who would not steal from the country he loved would not steal from anybody. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He loves biking and there’s no water involved. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I love her as much as you love any bird or beast or fish and will you tell God take the consumption away and I promise I’ll never go near her again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

David turns to me and mouths, I love you. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Jam lowered her head under the weight of their blinkered love and pushed her plate away, half her food untouched and the rest of it sour in her stomach. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Phoebe said, “My mother wouldn’t. My mother loves me.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She was probably thinking, “How sweet. I’ll bet he’s carving a heart with initials in it. Oh, to be young and in love!” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her trip of escape, the brief love affair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought for a long time, then finally said, ‘Your mom loved to laugh. Even when things felt like they were falling apart, she found a way to laugh.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And Pantalaimon didn’t ask why, because he knew; and he didn’t ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a time of sickness to which his wife ministered tenderly, he went back to his business and never again let the insanity of love come near him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had never kissed a boy, though I would kiss a few the next school year, and somehow we didn’t label it love. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Marian Anderson loved to sing, and site loved to listen wltile others were singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"This is jail. Home is where you're looked after by people who love you." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The law that applied to her was the law of sacrificial love. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Suppose you’d love to live here, wouldn’t you, Weasley? Dreaming about having your own bedroom? I heard your family all sleep in one room — is that true?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I always loved the girl in white, with a hat in her hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted me to grow up and fall in love and maybe get married and have children, like my friends would. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And the sofa feels warm and cozy, and I love everyone. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And she just seems like a total sweetheart. Like, I’d honestly love to see you with someone like her.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I still catch myself thinking, Ah, Grandpa will love this, or Oh, I can't wait to tell Grandpa about this. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Uhmma loves her pennies, collects them like flowers in an old glass vase she found at a garage sale. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And then the next day they were madly in love again. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not even close to the truth. You play basketball because you love your father.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you believe that, despite everything I’ve put you through, I love you, too?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On her way home from his family’s house one warm summer night, Kathleen, full of the heady rush of first love, lost herself in the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet no matter how much fun I had in those classes, ballet was my first love. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you hear I’m falling in love with you? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay. Tell me something else you remember,” I said, even though I loved Sox trivia and riling up Mr. Patterson. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I loved the curve of his jaw, the hole in his T-shirt, the notes he wrote me, the way his mind worked, the way he moved his hands when he talked. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I loved the garden. And it died because it’s so cold. It’s August, and I’m wearing my winter coat and gloves and my garden froze to death. And I hate corpses! I hate them!” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Goober had no way of knowing this was the kind of thing Archie loved to do—intimidate someone, get him worrying. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells the family they must show him their love. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Semele was the most unfortunate woman of all those Zeus fell in love with, and in her case too the reason was Hera. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the little jolt of satisfaction I got anytime I finished off some small organizational task. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was easy for the parents to love the wax children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

People would love me for my sweet, quiet nature. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The me who doesn’t have to send her love away. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was madly in love, a fool because of love. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were going to take some of your sister’s magic stuff and make a love potion for Kimberly!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Tattle went on and on about how much he loved seeing the videos and photos of our Legos and about how much talent Rose and me had. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I want to be in love like that someday. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In her place—almost as if the boys' ugly words and taunts had the power of spells—was a hairy, breast-budding grownup no one would ever love. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As incredible as my Olympic journey had been, my greatest gift had been the chance to bring joy to those who love me most—my family. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not that I really believe in love or those kinds of relationships anymore... Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Most of my friends' parents had come of age in the era of free love, but my maman and baba had totally missed out on the sexual revolution. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said I shoud always love god and prey to him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And black has become a beautiful color—not because it is loved but because it is feared. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I decided that was because they loved us so much, even though we weren’t always good. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not a passion like ours, Gustavo, but love just the same. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the breeze blowing through, and my privileged position firmly astride the prison wall, with both sides in plain sight. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are only four spots and I won’t risk you stealing one because everyone loves your stupid brother so much. It’s either quit or get kicked out of the Bureau. Your decision.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I love how inconspicuous this camera is; it fits in the palm of my hand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Please, for the love of God, do not ask me. I’m on vacation. I want to get drunk and eat barbecue in peace.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba’s exaggerated love for her was without a doubt the most powerful emotion of his life, greater by far than his rage and pride. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That I’m not worthy of his attention, his time, his love. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Together, we played not only the music of the moment, but music of the past, which I grew to love, though it was unfashionable. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I fell in love with Igbo-Ukwu art and then fell in love with her,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

El loves Halloween and drags me to a different party every year. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I love you. Listen to some Dolly. She’ll make you feel better.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“She loves this rug,” Mrs. McCullough said, patting the sheepskin on the floor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He loves the bird in the air and the fish in the stream but he’s not a fool. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I think you should give this to your mom. She would love it.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In answer to this assertion, I can say, I never loved any or confided in any people more than my fellow-slaves, and especially those with whom I lived at Mr. Freeland’s. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The radio purrs and the woman laughs and Herr Siedler looks almost nothing, Werner decides, like his neighbors, their guarded, anxious faces—faces of people accustomed to watching loved ones disappear every morning into pits. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I am not sorry. I will not renounce my actions. I love her. I love the princess.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He leaned into the curves like he loved the raspy sound the blades made. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

"I love you. I love you. You know I love you, Vera?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He stayed in the South and worked for a few years to save some money, then packed up, headed to Illinois, and proposed to Mary Richardson, the love of his life. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought you loved him,” he said calmly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They all loved him very much, and revered him for taking thorns out of their toes, and came to him with their troubles at once. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Set against the backdrop of America in its final days, it’s the high-spirited story of their love together, it’s laugh-out-loud funny, really heartwarming, and a visual feast.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her message is committed to hands I cannot see—For love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of Me! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel each of her loved ones, their passions and fears. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Plus, Ocean could officially meet Navid and the other guys, and I could show him around this world I loved. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I won’t trouble you. I only want to know if you care for me a little, Meg. I love you so much, dear,” added Mr. Brooke tenderly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roads confound him; they’ve knotted up, dark, antagonistic; he pits himself against them, valiant, a man doing battle for love. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were few things Sosie loved more than a direct challenge. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We are a family-run business, and the neighborhood loves us. Being extra-attentive will remind people of how special our place is. It’s just the right touch.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m in love with you,” he said quietly. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She loves him more than anyone, and it’s hard to see this kind of love not being returned. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

His daughter, Scylla, used to watch Minos from the city wall and she fell madly in love with him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, my love,” I said, folding my hands over his, “reason it out. What could Dofta Fefita do to protect me even if I were in danger?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought of what true love must be like, I figured it must be a mix like this, and not the stupid eighth-grade infatuation most girls my age felt. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I loved Christmas with my dad because my dad celebrated European Christmas. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The numbness that had settled on him when he saw the man he loved and admired fall off the fence; something wild ran S> through him when he watched the body twitching in the dirt. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah, ah, how I loved you, Mama—dead these many years! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was, as yet, unmarried, although she was very much in love. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess you’d better go to them, then. Goodbye, Junior. Give your mother my love and tell her I’ll write soon.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The unspoken philosophy of all those in love with Ada was something like this: If I have to die to get that, then death it is. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The mother may not give me the love I crave, but I know what it feels like to be loved. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had felt loved, love pouring from their fingers when the adults tucked red money in our pockets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Mamá is Mariposa too, tenacious and fierce, but generous with her love,” the Virgen assured me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some captive chimps love to paint, and if they know ASL, they may actually sign what the painting is supposed to be. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I refused, it meant that I did not love my mother, and no man in that tight little black community had ever been crazy enough to let himself be placed in such a position. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I will reply, ‘Yes, for the love of God.’ The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They loved cats and had a habit of meowing. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her mother, Jeer, had been born in Africa and loved to tell her daughter and her friends stories of her childhood in a small village by a river and all the animals who lived nearby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“If I brought Moses in here from off the street, I bet he’d love this chicken.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

"I am no sei," the Hound replied, but he took the vic-tory, and the champion's purse, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, the love of the commons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Why, you rushed forward to open that door as though you were in love with her.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her face is full of love, and that gives me the courage I need. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The electron that scientists see in the laboratory—the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades—is an impostor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Catherine turns to him and says on a shaky sigh, “Oh, my love,” and pulls him into her chest somehow, even though he’s nearly a foot taller. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I saw, more than anything, that relationships are not sustained by violence but by love. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was at the moment, she told them, a virtual prisoner on an island ruled over by the nymph Calypso, who loved him and planned never to let him go. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was stuck being rocks all the time, so nobody loved him. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, grown-up stuff. You know, things like cool clothes and”—June lowered her voice and looked around like she was about to spill the world’s greatest secret—“love.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“One more question. Do you believe in true love and all that stuff?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And with unutterable gratitude and joy he put his arms around his love and saw her smile into his eyes and blush. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would never love me because of Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a perfect situation. But when you have to choose between two bad options, you pick the one that saves the people you love and believe in most. You just do. Okay?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t said a word to me about Charlie, even though only a year ago, she was clearly in love with him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sure, he had already eaten four, but all was fair in love and cookies. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I knew, however, that the parcel was a way of expressing her love and a pledge of solidarity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, really. Nothing at all. Just a chance to co-star with you on a regular basis. Oh, did I mention that Nala and Scruffy love, love, love working with Fred?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him that he was my best friend and I loved him like crazy, but boys didn’t say such things to other boys, and nobody said such things to Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were incredibly beautiful views out of the windows, which Dad would have loved. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty good? Sure, and bufriedos are pretty good. Sex is pretty fun. The sun is pretty hot. Jesus, it says so much about love and brokenness—it’s perfect.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And then we realized that we were in love with one another. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He loved photography and always kept the camera strapped over his shoulder. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I loved those ugly little bats, the way they darted past, their wings in a furious blur. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He just wants what’s best for you, I think. The worry on his face yesterday, when he didn’t know where you were...He loves you so much.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

That experience shaped what I’ve felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Your brother Samuel sends his love as welL Dearest Celie, When we returned home everyone seemed happy to see us. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was from the difference between us, not from the affinities and likenesses, but from the difference, that that love came: and it was itself the bridge, the only bridge, across what divided us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, some places. But you can get it. Your gran loved ivory. She traveled to China when she was a child.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to lose anyone we love. Your dad lost his brother. They were very close. He cried because he was grieving. Just like Crazy Horse did.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She is a muscle of love, this Mary. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they could help?...or your kind and loving mom and dad could please help me if possible please, I wrote to finish the sentence and hopefully take the pressure off my dear friend. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He missed it because he’s in love with Hannah Winter, and instead of going to see the judge, he spent the afternoon at a hotel with her. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed he was never violent to my mother and loved Luke and me very much. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was romantic how at the school dance, he apologized and told her he loved her. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“She only wants what’s best for me. She knows I love the pageants.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I love him and I hope his time at Ox­ford was a rich experience. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just human hands and love and hammers and nails and more love. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don’t share his vainglorious self-opinion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Love is love, after all, whether you’re Greek or Roman. This civil war won’t affect me as much as it will the others.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Certainly not,” he said, looking down at his daughter with love. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“My dear, my love,” I said, “I could not sleep for missing you.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I asked her if she was in love with Ron. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not looking, Pudge. When I go into your room, I see a couple of guys who love video games. When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But that expression of ‘violently in love’ is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were a lot older than my birth parents, more like my grandparents’ age, but I loved them both, and I was happy to be with them. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I give myself a pep talk the rest of the way: Mama loves me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He loved me. He loved me, and I didn’t do anything to save him.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this girl with the long dreads revealed something else— that love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I love a man who dries my dishes. Even if he does insult me.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I hated Kim even more for making me betray a book I loved. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved everything about that slide—the steep metal stairs that led to the top of it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And Stephen Kellner, who loved to drive his German Road Machine at unsafe velocities, was right at home, leaning into each turn like a race car driver. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He was just a handsome, big fellow,” Manette would recall, “full of loving and full of fun, and very easy to make friends with.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean I loved the pilgrim wanting to know who all the ladies were.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It costs money to take care of the people you love. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They loved playing tag or card games with campaign staff during the quieter moments and made a point of finding an ice cream shop in every new place they went. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings—greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was only the heart; the words “We love you, Mommy” didn’t show up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"God loves us all. He does not love us more than He loves our enemies." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It looked little and shabby to her now, but she still loved it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you know how the old song goes: first came love, then came marriage, then came the lady with the baby carriage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t have much left of my childhood beliefs I can love or trust, but I still know what justice is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped whoever found Tinkerbell would love her despite her melted face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would bring her the gifts real maidens love, little birds and gay flowers and the shining tears of amber Phaëthon’s sisters weep, and then dream that she thanked him with eager affection. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Sarah must have realized how weird we looked standing around in the living room, because they sat down on the love seat together. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow her, and she holds my hand and leads me to a beat-up leather love seat a few feet from the stage manager’s desk. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Deborah died in the clothes she wore to bed that night, including my hand-me-down soccer jersey that she loved. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

One of my disgruntled neighbors had the audacity to say, “If you love black people so much, why don’t you just marry a monkey?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A kind and generous man, Lewis Krakauer loved his five children deeply, in the autocratic way of fathers, but his worldview was colored by a relentlessly competitive nature. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, spirits. This is my question for you: Does M. love me?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was my everything, the person I loved and respected most in my world. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure teachers are going to love that. A sugar rush on top of the hormonal mood swings of middle schoolers.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The things I do for love," he murmured softly as he tossed him out kicking into empty air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

You don’t know how much I love cinnamon doughnuts. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I think you love her,” I say, teasing him. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“If you really love me, if you’d really do anything, then this is the one thing I’m asking for. Please just tell me her name. I need to know.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He spoke out of love for the girl—a destructive love, but a love, nevertheless. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And I learned the meaning of “love/hate relationship” in a game situation like this one. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Nine years old, yes, but it was real love, and now we were alone on those front steps. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have told me the story of the Sixth Borough, from the voice in the can at the end to the beginning, from “I love you” to “Once upon a time...” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had all that wealth, the love of all those people she helped in her clinic. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was obvious he loved talking about this stuff. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They knew which books the other would love and hate. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The implications that I could so readily dispose of Peeta, that I’m in love with Gale, that the whole thing has been an act. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“In a super big way. I love it. It lets me be driven.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Do I want to kiss her because I love her or because I need something from her? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to make light of it. But no, your mom and I are not getting divorced. We love each other very much and we love you.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, he was my father and I loved him, but I wish to God he had let ideas alone.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know that I will love him beyond all reason. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I fell in love with a mortal named Hyacinthus. He was quite extraordinary.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had once, she was quite sure, been in love with her, though he’d never said anything about it, and they’d both been married for years now. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The goddess of love would not make a special trip to tell thee that. Be careful, Percy. Aphrodite has led many heroes astray.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Fern could love Miss Patty Cake all she wanted. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always seemed so comfortable in his own skin, and it reminded me of what I loved about the way he walked: he had this really steady, certain step. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he’s also a boy who signs his emails with “love.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Have I mentioned how much I love the fact that he uses big words and assumes we understand them? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His employees loved working for him, and one even asked if my dad would be willing to sponsor him to get a green card. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was angry because Zeus loved Aegina, the maiden for whom the island was named, and whose son, Aeacus, became its king. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I had to hide was the self who was a reader, who loved poetry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They could not believe or accept the fact that they were unloved; they believed that the world itself was off balance when it appeared as though they were not loved. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susie was the sort of girl who would go in for this kind of love. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s hard to concentrate in the lunchroom with the girls’ step team practicing in one corner, a rap group performing in the other, and Vondie and JB waxing poetic about love and basketball. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“I mean, yes. Thank you. I would love to.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I love that woman but it was me who sent Sapo. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A few years later, they became the only real parents I’ve ever known—the ones who have raised and guided me, and loved me every day of my life. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a perfect date—lots of exhaust in our cookies ’n’ cream—but the vuvv love customs. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What if there was somebody whom he would love again? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Hamilton children loved it when their father’s mind went free. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a maiden in Thessaly named Coronis, of beauty so surpassing that Apollo loved her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the semester we were in love. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“One day you carried the voice of my loved one to me.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Know it like you used to say that Alex was your “one true love.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He loved the smell of the wood he was whittling, even the acrid smell of the oak that Brother Matthew was working. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

"Spies and informers are seldom loved, my lord. I am but a loyal servant of the realm." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I know I’m taking a very good look around before I close my eyes and fall in true love. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, it made perfect sense that Jesse had a computer but not a car: Young Americans seem much more in love with their computers these days. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in love, with Cecilia, with the twins, with success and the dawn and its curious glowing mist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Rowan resolved that he would make up Kohl’s last words to share with his loved ones. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He looked around her room for something that she loved and would want to have with her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I remember this is when I came to love him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m more tired of missing Isaac, is all. Just an old man with an old love, I guess.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It really did make me glad to know Penny was learning the same books I loved so much. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Strutting without care and bowing to the ladies, they sent my thoughts flowing to tunes of false love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His heart had festered with murder and jealousy—so little by little he boiled away all the loving parts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Most of my friends' parents drank themselves stupid or yelled too much or had stopped loving each other a long time ago, and that was just the way of things, no big deal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When they say the heart wants what it wants, they’re talking about the poetic heart—the heart of love songs and soliloquies, the one that can break as if it were just-formed glass. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

That she's a spendthrift and loves to gamble and entertain with extravagant parties. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I love you, man, but we didn’t need you there. I said something stupid, but Samantha and I would’ve hung out with or without you.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Aunt Anne was good to us and we loved her and her family, but like Dad she insisted on having her own way. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to love her but readily admits that he may have made a mistake. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"You are young, and in love," said Primus. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He believed Charles was right, and he loved a fight. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had a love for this sport that could not be denied. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Between the photo and the book, Scoob’s thoughts are whipping around faster than a load of clothes in their front-loading washer during the spin cycle, something he typically loves watching but is queasy about now. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear,” thought Meg, “married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved to play and was a good big sister and older cousin. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, we all love having our feelings reciprocated. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Not because I love it, but simply because she hates it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I loved that about him, that he really wanted to be happy. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She'd probably love to have my stammer if she could have her leg back, and I wondered if being happy's about other people's misery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘Bless the old hobbit! I love him more than ever. I hope we get a chance of telling him about it!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My gran used to sing us that song. I never loved it, but Abby did.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I told her we would always love each other and that Grandma was insisting I give her away because she was so precious. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now my mother gets up from the so-called love seat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But I was happy to get a glimpse of the oldest one and wished he sang the love song. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Did he ever love a maid or have a wedding! A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere you are holding the person I love,” the boy said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was going to be a dancer and she loved space. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The graveyard, though, was his world and his domain, and he was proud of it and loved it as only a fourteen-year-old boy can love anything. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Papi, if I leave the Doctorita’s house, will you always protect me? Will you make sure that no one hurts me? Will you always love me?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This ain’t new. They love to make us the villains for telling the truth.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He loved to be in that house, admiring the craftsmanship, the great care put into the most eccentric details and flourishes—a mural over the mantel, one-of-a-kind ironwork on every balcony. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At times he worked himself up to discussing this, gradually revealing to her how it hurt him to feel there was a part of her love she withheld. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And you know I love women, man. What if I get there and none of them are feelin’ me?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I dream about her because I love her a lot. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say that love, ambition, jealousy, the quest for adventure, or any of the more romantic feelings were back of these two murders. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So where is the love in this love story?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Then why did you say—” “That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Did you love your father, Adam?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to throw up in front of a boy I’m falling in love with and a cousin I don’t want to be related to. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

One last time, with no trace of love or tenderness remaining. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Matt was too old for such things, but he knew the car had been very expensive and therefore that El Patron loved him very much. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about that: how Fariba Bahrami, who had lived in Iran her entire life, was in love with a band from Sweden. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It is not the god he loves, it is the flames, she concluded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My mom said good-bye to her husband of eight years and the love of her young life, neither of them wanting to acknowledge it could be months or years before they'd be reunited in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Old Tallow, who loved to hunt and was very skilled, shared her catch with them when Deydey was gone. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

How I loved being the center of my grandparents' attention! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A summer when love was everything, and we didn't talk about college or geography, and we rode buses and hopped in cars and walked city blocks in our sandals. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The terrifying thought of how close she’d come to killing the people she loved reared back up in her mind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Baker had come along—probably because he loved camping, and Mrs. Baker was willing to put up with soggy ground, mosquitoes, sleeping on rocks, and dew for his sake. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then and there she renounced all other ambitions and went back to her first love, the stage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If God is really taking a hand in things,” I informed Thérèse, “he is bitterly mocking the hope of brotherly love. He is making sure that color will matter forever.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talk about how much I love science, how it opened my eyes to the world around me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What has happened to me, what’s happening to me now, won’t make any difference to him, he loves me anyway, he knows it isn’t my fault. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So why, after all I put you through, do you still love me?” she finally said, and slipped the nail file into her purse. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure they’d like to know where you are. So would your parents. I’m sure they’d love to know where Pearl is, too.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A story I know you both will love.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in the Ivy, surrounded by these pristine people, where she didn’t deserve to be, embarrassing the poor, poor mother of a friend she hadn’t loved well enough, or had loved too much. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t care what she says about love and chemicals. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But the reason I’m studying it is because I have this personal love for it.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When she said, “I hit you out of love,” I didn’t necessarily agree with her thinking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That night I thought I had lost my ability to fall in love forever, that I would never laugh again or pursue an illusion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She regarded love as possessive mating, and romance as the goal of the spirit. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olga knew how much I loved the book, so she read it to me over and over. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cat, perhaps, who will love her order, precision, and constancy; who will be as clean and quiet as she is. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love you and miss you all very much. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s in stupid, unbearable love, and Henry loves him too, and at least for one night it matters, even if they both have to pretend to forget in the morning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“People love you because you’re Melody, not because of what you can or cannot do. Give us a little credit.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Xavier gave me a tiny tattoo of a black heart on my collarbone, and I loved it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With those heavy words, I bade farewell to Horatio, to the country of my birth, and lately the place of love and its companion, loss. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I love you, Hermione,” said Ron, sinking back in his chair, rubbing his eyes wearily. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I do miss them. They were good people. Not huggers or the types to go to pieces over loving someone. But good people.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He’d love to see what a real college campus looked like, he said; I mentioned to him that a kid from my town in New Jersey was in her third year there, loving it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that bow was the thing Pita loved most about that dress. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She loved her city, worn out and crumbling though it was. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Loved as the defeated come to love the symbols of their conquerors. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children loved it dearly and had given it an affectionate name: Tootsy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We loved all trucks, and each week, we’d compete to see who could build the biggest and strongest one. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I give him a hug and say, “I love the boots, Papi. But didn’t they have black ones?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Stop and find out who I am, no rude rustic or shepherd. I am the Lord of Delphi, and I love you.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I will join you,” he said, “for I love you and would be with you for eternity.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What could his heavy arms and befuddled brain accomplish that would earn him his own respect, that would in turn allow him to accept her love? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the feel and colors of beautiful cloth and he would sit with his scraps for hours under the kitchen table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I will always love you, no matter what happens now.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, every time I go up and jam another girl calls me up and wants to give me her true love,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You make a zillion friends every time we move. It’s why you love moving so much.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She could have given up on her mother, but she was obsessed with trying to get Anastasia to love and take care of her, even though Anastasia acted as though she didn’t have a daughter. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has sung whole love songs to the cynical crowds, told tall stories of courage and honor, doing all this without any mythic display, without savvy, almost embarrassing the urban throng. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she tossed him she chatted happily about her love for Atik and how excited she had been when he decided to take her on the hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They loved to point Adah out when they saw us, pantomiming a lion’s roar, which didn’t help us to put the affair behind us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I believe in true love,” Isaac said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

If he loved you, he would come and carry you off at swordpoint, as Rhaegar carried off his northern girl, the girl in her insisted, but the queen knew that was folly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I thought I did. But now I think that maybe I just loved being in love with him.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He's a kind, steady man, and yes, Mr Stevens, I've grown to love him.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming you don’t incinerate all record of me when you’re done with it, what I’d love to capture, to trap here for eternity in amber, is how exciting it was to come here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“You love the goat more than me. More than you love your wife, probably. First the goat, then your wife, then last of all—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And none of us watches television or listens to the radio,” said Kate, “because of our minds’ unusually powerful love of truth, right?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing was “I love you,” because it’s a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“You’ll see. There are other animal shelters that would love to have us.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I love the look on his face when I manage one of those and take his bishop. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

This was love, to be eager for tomorrow. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom really loved it when we were doing things together—she and Abbey fixing the salad and potatoes, Dad and me cleaning the fish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

One girl even confirms that Jesus still loves me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She loved her father so much, but even though she hated to admit it, she was also a little ashamed of him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She was a frisky little thing, kind of like me, and when she began licking my face I fell in love with her right away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I love you so much, Jupiter,” she says, and she sits her chin on your shoulder. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Before long, I laughed into the wind, loving the quickness of it. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe during those three years you make friends you’ll love and respect forever, people who seem genuinely called to the bloodless intricacies of the law, but you yourself are not called. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she is. Gentle. Cheerful. Very loving to her husband.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And at that moment, in that splendid hour, after his wonderful sleep, permeated with Om, how could he help but love someone and something. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to love books and video games about modern soldiers, but now they only remind him of Matt. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I loved her as well but it was never the same. You are as dear as family to me, all of you. More dear, in some cases.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And here he was, alone with his chickens, waiting for a knock on the door, thinking that you can’t protect the ones you love, you have to hope they’re smart enough to save themselves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He loved the music so much that two other medics, Stringer and the Walrus, pulled him to his feet and even got him to mouth the words. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She also suffered from the barb of a lonely love. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Well, I love you, even if you hate me.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What was this blight that had come down over the people she loved? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Not only did her love for the iron plate and Sam keep her from going to Chup, but so did a new feeling deep inside her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There is still a hope, a chance, that Kalinda might someday return my feelings, and I’ll have the unending joy of being able to love her, and being able to have my mother. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So—it may happen in Lublin that a Jewish girl marries for love,” said Shifre. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would have scoffed at a man wearing hair gel, which is perhaps why I loved it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had never felt so in love in my life, and I have not since. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it stands to reason that the first thing I fell in love with in Itfe was a black man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We show no emotion. I loved Mr. Hamilton. I would like to go to Salinas tomorrow if you will permit it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he got to the top of the hill she loved him again and opened the door and hopped out on the running board to wave. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Satchmo was named after Louis Armstrong, a famous jazz musician his grandmother loved. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a different sound, yes, but one thing Axel knows for sure: it is a sound he loves to hear. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Those we love live in our hearts forever! We always have them”—she touched my heart—“right here. Always.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she speaks, her voice is made of love. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The brownstone creaked as it settled more firmly into its foundation, wrapping the kids in warmth and love just as it had for so many years past and would, now, for many years to come. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t like to be under a spell to love someone.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Deydey was better, he and Fishtail worked side by side constructing the grave houses for their loved ones. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It reinforced my belief that among white South Africans there was that small minority that really believed in love, freedom and human dignity for all. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His students loved him. And not only because he wouldn’t beat them with rulers, like other teachers did. They respected him, you see, because he respected them. He was marvelous.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a frenzy he poured joyous abjectness on paper to send to her, and he went to bed purified, as a man is after sexual love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For all these names of love she had taught him, as one teaches new words to a child. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I think of my best friend, Tao, and how much he would love it here. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Everybody loves good luck. We should make this with your mom!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Whatever thoughts come to mind while you listen, I’d love to know them. If you can tell me them, tell me. If you can’t, write them down.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“This is all super easy for you to say. You have loving parents who support you and want you to succeed at stuff. You can afford college.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Back then, my world had been sand and sky and the love of Tribe Saif, who saved me from exposure. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If Dray and Donna’s love is like a tornado—wild, dangerous, and unpredictable—then this thing between me and Kasim is like the ocean—deep, deep, and as wide as the endless earth. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But when I was twelve, my mother fell in love with a man from California. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But he always insisted that the love of his work came first and was his main motivation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear what I just said? I’m in love with you! And I want to be with you. More than anything.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And how are you going to describe love to somebody? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

How small-minded and hypocritical mortal man was, for even as they despised the enders of life, they loved nature—which, in those days, took every human life ever conceived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"The stories about you tend to focus on...other aspects of love." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ah, then, then Your almost-brother love will cool; The cousin smile must grind out lean Where younger cousins rule. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love the rebound, boxing out, figuring angles and positioning myself, willing the ball into my hands. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Although Zita denied that there was any sexual intimacy with Bobby in the six weeks she stayed in Los Angeles—“I wasn’t thinking of that,” she said—he was falling in love. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had to get used to the grip—because it was different than the épée—but I loved how light the blade felt in my hand. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She relaxed, allowing her body to be moved however the water chose to move it, turning over once or twice, loving the way her hair in lazy strands caressed her windbumed face. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Them critters love that cheese,” she said fondly as the trap sank from view. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fell in love at The Mecca one last time, lost my balance and all my boyhood confusion, under the spell of a girl from Chicago. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I knew this would make J.T. drool because he loves all that technical stuff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there was so much love in her voice that I just couldn’t stand it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She loved writing and singing songs, but she had been so filled with sadness that she had lost the heart to sing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That he was the most inspiring and the best loved of all Hogwarts headmasters cannot be in question. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I could just tell her the truth—tell her I’m not coming home because Ollie Mae doesn’t love me the way she loves them. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Besides, I love this house. There’s really nowhere else I’d rather live.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was only writing love letters, I thought. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You are in luck.—Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of ours in love with the lady.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

With someone else who loved antiquity and beautiful things, and who shared his hope for this beleaguered world. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He must have loved your mother very much. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Montaigne, although his love for his friend knew no limits, was never taken in by it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As a lifelong bachelor who loved cats and books, he was the subject of plenty of whispering and judgment himself, so he wasn’t about to visit it on Dill. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It took three whole days for me to love him, sitting in the chair by the fire, Papa washing up the supper dishes, Caleb's tiny hand brushing my cheek. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I loved the breakfasts with pancakes, scrambled eggs, little bottles of juice, and sausage links. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

On it was written a love note to her husband, an unhappy, haunted man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I love Alexa’s place, with all its happy colors and books and weird abstract art. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Teacher, I want to be a sage more than anything I’ve ever wanted in this world. I don’t want to jeopardize that by falling in love with anyone.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Wow,” I said, but my voice cracked like a kid who suddenly realized he was alone inside the bedroom of the girl he loved, which made sense, considering the oppressive reality of my surrounding conditions. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mother said the Virgin was the saint of our land, and although there were many other good saints, I loved none as dearly as the Virgin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would I want to make things work with anyone who didn't love me? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t think so. He just lived there. She even pointed out the tomb he lived in. So I suppose he was a ghost. Do you remember, love?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She loved to make him burn and suffer till dark, then satisfy him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Dying. Losing my parents. Staying here for the rest of my life. Never figuring out what I’m supposed to do. Being ordinary. Losing everyone I love.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not romantic. It’s also nonsexual. It’s like, take a regular relationship and instead of kissing, put cuddling and stuff like that. And instead of ‘I love you’s’ it’s like, ‘You’re the greatest.’ The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I used to. But now I love it because I have to use it every day.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"I've seen it in some of those homes I worked in. Television gets the best of the family love. People stop talking to each other," she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“A great host? I should love to see them. I always enjoy processions and that sort of thing.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mind the lecture one bit; his father loved him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Too surprise to be hurt I didn’t believe it After all, Albert knew as well as me that love would have to go some to be better than ours. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to cry for Edward—at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My heart was sending out some serious love signals to that girl. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the midst of people I loved and I was afraid of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I thought you loved him, Beth, and I went away because I couldn’t,” cried Jo, glad to say all the truth. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was really into tongue twisters and funny Shel Silverstein stuff back then, and I loved reciprocal reciting, surprising him with things he’d never heard. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I send my love to it just for a second because I feel guilty leaving all those people up there all alone. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“She loved you,” she whispered to him again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“No, Mommy loves you, like I love you, she just wants you to do the right thing.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If anything, she loved him all the more for what they had endured together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He would love to keep playing with her. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This one gives you permission to love punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

But Cholly was still the major figure, because he was “Jimmy’s boy, the last thing she loved,” and “the one who found her.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bren had been in love with my cousin Vanessa for as long as I could remember. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You paint in a psychedelic way. My teacher is going to love it,” I tell him, and I’m proud of myself for using that grown-up word. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

If you could see that big smile Sweets has got on her face, you would think Larry’s just said he loves her. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And yet what Jimmy had felt for her was beyond normal love; it was passion—a passion that was in part pathological. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of whom answers back: “I love you.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was all mixed up with how I was supposed to feel. No. I did not love him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I only wish I could have told him our future was worth loving too. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Robert would swear undying love and forget them before evenfall, but Ned Stark kept his vows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She loved reading so much, I’d forgotten she was dyslexic, too. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

No use dropping it on our loved ones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Matt loved to see the old man then, with his eyes half closed and his mouth curved up in a gentle smile. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one else,'' Arturo used to say to me, “has ever been in love like we are. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Webb loves The Sandlot almost as much as I do. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping you was back in Harlem getting loved up by three big-hipped mamas and wearing you some wing-tipped kicks by now.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course he and my aunt would love the idea of a teenager suddenly living with them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could not understand how anyone could take me away from my loving relatives and make me live with strangers who were mostly indifferent and sometimes brutal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I said yes because I loved him and had faith in what he could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No. I didn’t. I wish I had. He loved a celebration of the human soul. Such things were like a personal triumph to him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved my new job even more than I loved my Park Avenue address. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tessie was seized with a desperate love for Chapter Eleven and me and kept hugging us and smoothing our hair, because children were the only balm against death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When she does, I will ask: Will you let me love you again? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

You’d think some of them would help us instead of talk about us, but I guess it’s easy to say you love Jesus and harder to act like him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Felicia feels as though she were in love again, at the center of the universe, privy to its secrets and inner workings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is a human, but I know for certain that she will always love me whoever I am. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He used to love nothing more than to stand at the gate and greet the children in the morning. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The kids love him because he spends more time in a baseball cap than a suit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She loved Chinese food and cheeseburgers and going for ice cream with friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Julie, it turned out, loved gardening and she talked about nothing else. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He loved the way she would sit up naked in his bed, her long white back swiveled away from him, look at her watch and say in her practical way “Oops, I must be off.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Change must take place. It is important. To remain as you are would lead to isolation. You would be doomed to a lonely existence, ripped apart from those you love.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They loved him that way; he could still feel the love they had for him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yeah, Mom; yeah, of course. I love you, okay? Okay, I gotta go.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Did I never give her a burning love, inseparable from jealousy at all times, and from sharp pain, while she speaks thus to me! Let her call me mad, let her call me mad!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I'm too busy crying myself, thinking of how it must feel to be loved so wholly, so unconditionally. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He always closes his eyes and smiles when we reach the last lines of the passage, Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

How can I get ahead when I'm forced to leave behind the person I love most? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

By then, she loved these baby girls like her own. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Patience! Have patience, or you will make yourself nuts. You can become really unhappy or you can go deep inside yourself and know God loves you as you do your personal best.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At that moment, I loved and admired the president even more than before. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

People say misery loves company, but I think it’s like that with anger too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You and the director can work out the blocking and stunts. We’ll shoot the train-hopping scene on Saturday. I have a feeling America is going to love our new Duke even more than I do.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He would excel, and then everyone would love him and forget he was a clone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I want you to know that I’m coming back. I love you because . . .” “Don’t say anything,” Fatima interrupted. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the way she smiled at me like a dazed sunflower. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, Sam’l Hamilton, loved good writing, and he knew it too, and he had some bluestocking daughters, among them my mother. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told both our girls that I loved them and that things would be okay. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They would have to love music whether they wanted to or not. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even at the beginning when I would’ve loved two automatic friendships. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Dad spent hours in the greenhouse trying to save the plants my mother no longer loved. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When he was a kitten he used to love pretending he was a dog. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia, who doesn’t care if she has asthma, but is going to love that furry ball of kitten anyway. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“And he loved you. Like me, he found you witty as well as beautiful.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Does he love you back? Perhaps a word from me will help smooth the path of true love.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Matt Drinker loves when something like that happens. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I heard about your lady love, Chief Ozobia’s daughter,” Susan said, lady love in the comic caricature that she assumed was an uneducated accent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she smiled even bigger and said, I love this class SO MUCH! Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lord, how they rocked in their bed of sin, and how she cried and shivered; Lord, how her love came down! Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered suddenly if he had been in love with Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I loved how tightly he held me, the soft in-out of his breathing, and how I didn’t feel the need to look over my shoulder when he was here. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we’re able to forgive them.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The juice came out of her lips as if it was being extracted real careful by a rock-star dentist who she loved. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they had never met before, they immediately knew that the Fates had decreed for them a love as faithful as the north star. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Bigger, I want to ask you something about your race. Do you love your people?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But somewhere deep down, she loved the sheer heady freedom of it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He understood and loved children and they worshipped him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead here were following their loved ones around, restless and unhappy, just as they were everywhere. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He moved like a person with a genuine love of bees. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had finally found a safe place, had finally tasted love and hope. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"I love him with all my heart," Sansa said at once. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I gazed at him, bidding all my love to show forth in my eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She led the congregation in prayer, asking the Lord to comfort all the families who had lost loved ones in the protests and riots. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Being almost thirteen, I was too old to go trick-or-treating, but being almost thirteen, I also really loved candy, so I volunteered to take the little girl from down the street. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, because the little girl, who I guessed was Tobias’s sister, began smooshing Delilah’s ears, which made Delilah wag her tail, and then lean against Tobias in total love with him. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She has his coloring, wit, love of literature, and sometimes his temper. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’d love to have him visit Chicago again,” Mama was saying. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not sure why, but I kind of just feel like it needs to know I love it if it's going to work with me. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He loved to read short stories aloud, taking all the parts, providing all the sound effects. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she answered, that sweet, puckered look came into her forehead, which Arthur—I call him Arthur from her habit—says he loves; and, indeed, I don’t wonder that he does. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then an old wife, Ioreth, the eldest of the women who served in that house, looking on the fair face of Faramir, wept, for all the people loved him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Very true, my love, very true. Exactly so, indeed—quite unheard of—but some ladies say any thing. Better pass it off as a joke. Every body knows what is due to you.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

She loved him with the strength of iron. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

"Her name's Prim. She's just twelve. And I love her more than anything." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t love having to walk him to the Cambis’. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thus I raged, but inwardly I hoped that Hamlet meant his words of love, and I wished that I had heard him speak them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"And you really are my only hope. Her name—that is, the name of my love—is Victoria. Victoria Forester. And she is the prettiest, wisest, sweetest girl in the whole wide world." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

You’re constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who throws tables around. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He did seem to be in love with her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Grandma didn’t ask—she told, and I loved her for that. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We were blissfully happy in September, in love with each other and with our new baby. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In being sent to prison, they had no doubt let people down; some who loved them no longer wanted to see them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pork tastes of orange juice and garlic, and the moros have the crunchy bacon bits on top that I love. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Gliding, I love how bracing wind flows over my body and face. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No matter how loud she yelled, he knew that underneath she still loved him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t like to see Spot loving him with the same links he gives me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were stories of heroes and poets and love and sacrifice. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I go so far as to call Skeezie on Saturday and ask him what he knows about love. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the stories Suzanne brought back from the eating-club banquets and parties she went to, but I had no interest in bickering myself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They get to dish out wisdom and attitude while the white woman finds love. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And that he loved us enough to come down to Stamps to visit? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your mother and I love you very much." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I loved her. So when I heard from Eddie about what happened, it almost made me . . . Like you say, it’s pure speculation.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the love, the dog love, much more than the shattered knee.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“As for the Queen, let her hide and be forgiven. But thou, false recreant knight, what cause had’st thou to slay my brother, that loved thee mom than all my kin?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his key in the lock and lay face down on his cot, shaken by the hoarse, terrible moans with which men weep for love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had many visitors, from PIH and from Boston’s Haitian community, surrounding him with toys and smiles of love. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ikwa and I, old souls, watched the beginning of the love affair from our perch in the tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Brussels, I fell in love with a bartender who claimed not to care about the uncommon way I was made. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I learned that nurses liked to make small talk and were in love with taking your vitals. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As much as I loved gymnastics and being able to soar above the arena, I was beyond excited about attending public school again with my longtime BFF Marissa. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Everyone loves you. With your perfect job! And your perfect house! And your perfect money!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Personally, I love portrait shots. Wherever I am, even in the turbulent war zones or battlefields, I always stop to take pictures of people. People’s faces reveal the real story to me.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Wait. I don’t even know your last name and I’m in love with you. You got the same last name as your cousins, right? Fabulous François?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They broke the little blue plate she loved. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A love for these animals wells up in me suddenly, a flash flood, and there it is, solid as an obelisk and viscous as water. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She loved the friendliness of it and the small-town feel of it, the way she knew everyone out at the country club or at the store, the way the gossip made an easy circle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to be Native American or First Nation. Anybody can love, forgive, and heal. Nobody has a corner on that market.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She was too insubstantial, too shadowy for love. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loves America and makes us know all the American states in alphabetical order. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He licked my face because he loved and trusted me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, if you are good, and love your book, as the boys in the primer are told to do,” said Meg, smiling. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love how much she looks like Simon, and I love that they both look like their older sister. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Also, he's wearing my clothes, which I delivered to him yesterday: khakis; a short-sleeve, plaid button-down I love; and my black Chucks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Of course I love your father. He’s my husband.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember thinking how much I would have loved for that to have been my life, how much I would have loved to have a past apart from the fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I assured her of the strength of our cause, the loyalty of our friends, and how it would be her love and devotion that would see me through whatever transpired. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt thankful that I had my very own dog who would love me no matter what. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We all know that Beauty grows to love the beast. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Then I want you to tell him that you love him.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You are funny! I love how sassy you are!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He wished he could tell them that he knew how it felt to have the one person who had loved you and taken care of you suddenly vanish. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Definitely. If you don’t, the dragon will kill the peasants. You slay the dragon, the peasants will rejoice. Peasants always love dragon slayers.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thoroughbreds run because they love to, but when overraced they can become stale and uninterested, especially when repeatedly trounced and bullied by their riders, as Seabiscuit was. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must accept them and accept them with love. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He will be yours to punish or to love, as you choose. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ms. Washington’s big into theater—she always directs the musicals up at the high school—and loves it when kids turn their presentations into performances. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It is no surprise a god would fall in love with her, given our family. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Our rules dictated that the girl’s choice be respected and once she had chosen her favorite, she was free to continue on her journey escorted by the lucky boy she loved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How I would love to call my family, but I have no money. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loves it so much, he always seems in good spirits lately. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

If the person who’s meant to love you forever can suddenly stop, then what is there to believe in? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gracie runs to the van and brings back bottles of water that she hands out, but before they can rest, I say, “You guys are gonna love this next part.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was saying he didn’t want to be adopted by the two people who loved him more than anything in the world, and... Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I tell him about a million times I love him as much as I love my ma. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and went to the door, then stopped and said, “By the way, where can I get one? My daughter would just love it.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A cavalry soldier, restless and caged in the tamed and political East, who loves the great plains and the memory of snow. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consider Jesus, who is supposed to love me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In an instant I’m surrounded by love and chatter and half-eaten pizza. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Girls loved him, and he was dumb as rocks. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I think Papa loved him then, when he was in Vietnam, but he didn’t seem to love him anymore. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And beyond that, there are so many things I love about him: he’s kind and strong and he believes in the intrinsic value of women as human beings; he’s fun and deep and loyal. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gruwell has also encouraged me in my one true love— sports. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Papa, do you...love her? The way you loved my mother?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He loved the feel of springy muscle beneath her skin everywhere he touched her the only time she’d let him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They somehow say “I love you” and “I’ll do whatever for you” all at once. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He's so happy just knowing somebody loves him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Not a man of them, sir, would be bold enough to try it on, for love or money.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t very athletic and didn’t like exploring as much as Brian and I did, but she loved anything having to do with pencil and paper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that Ann didn’t love her husband; far from it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rus the dog hopped from bed to bed, because he was a glutton for love. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But Windy would probably assume I love nature, not numbers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, I have not been able to preserve the life of anyone I have loved!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It’s a miracle that anyone would ever fall in love with someone else and—of all the people in the world—that person loves them back. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

You’d better hurry if you want to catch a husband or fall in love, since everything is bound to be a disappointment to you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“We thought it would encourage him to let us stay if he knew how many people loved us in the neighborhood,” he explained. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I spent fifty-five years with the love of my life. I lost her last July.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It's hard to feel very festive on Christmas when our family has lost two loved ones on the holiday. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine,” the priest intoned, while Hamlet kissed me most tenderly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The young mother loved her firstborn son deeply, Kunti said, but she was unmarried and couldn’t keep him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked at the tortoise with shining eyes, and he let it wrap around him in a loving embrace. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He loved the water, and was as much at home in it as the other two hated and feared it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Joseph and Mary loved the child, and when they went back home, they remembered everything that happened and they treasured it in their hearts. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I think his closing words were: “I hope you understand I’m saying this because I love you.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The way Americans in general like to move around, the Chinese love to hold still; removal is a fall and an exile. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loves to be among the living creatures, whether on the reefs or in her aquaria. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, she put down the spoon, picked up her pen, and wrote: What is love? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The black- light walls are lined with plaques paid for by families of the dead who are asking the angels to bring their loved ones back to life and give them a happy eternity. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He loves to corner the rats and then we smash them to bits with rocks or sticks or stab them with the hay fork in the stable. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But she had a beautiful house, a steady job, a loving husband, a brood of healthy and happy children; surely that was worth the trade. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bloom’s body was infused with good feeling, compassion, love, and as Linda gently stroked his forehead, singing a song in Spanish, he fell asleep. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said his group members just loved it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kabuo was rooted there just as she was, a boy who understood the earth and the working of it and how it was a good thing to live among people one loved. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Allen quickly became committed to SNCC’s nonviolent ideals: always meet hatred with love, and strive to eliminate evil, not destroy the evildoer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But probably a love story, right? Something Simonish, with a happy ending.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I forgot that I haven’t yet told you the story of my one true love. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I love the fact that she’s in all my inclusion classes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But the Warriors loved the idea, so I met Long- well in his room and said, “Let’s go.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ever since she was a child, my daughter had been rather strange; she was never the loving, gentle girl I would have liked to have. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I never seen her so set, and I said, ‘Don’t you love me, Lucinda?’ and she said yes, but she had to go because that’s the way it was, is all. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved them both, but they satisfied different longings. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I will not get a sermon on how fighting is not the Lord’s way, how I must learn to act from love instead of anger. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bas would have said, Obviously you’ll decide to help her, too; the girl I love would completely agree with everything I’m saying, because Bas wouldn’t know anything about the kind of girl I am now. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s all the same. Don’t you see? The Beast, the Bog, the Poem, the Poet, the world. They all love you. They’ve loved you this whole time. Will you come with me?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had loved them doggedly, had always been at hand with his money to pull them out of their errors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Gerald loved to watch her as she danced in her bedroom late at night, and danced in the kitchen while she was getting ready for school. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “you are bold, and I love it. I love it about you, Naomi. Do you hear me?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Dr. Dorian, “I think she will always love animals. But I doubt that she spends her entire life in Homer Zuckerman’s barn cellar. How about boys—does she know any boys?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Norwood, whose first love was trigonometry and thus angles, decided to bring a little mathematical rigor to navigation and to that end he determined to calculate the length of a degree. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Izzy loved rings and wore one on every finger, so I quickly did the same. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mommy gave my hand a little squeeze, though I don’t know if it was an “I love you” squeeze or an “I’m sorry” squeeze. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Because it smoothed the wrinkles, the fumble and rush of unfamiliar love and roused them to fever pitch. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

So I waited until everyone left, even though I might be late for Mrs. Verne's class and I knew that Principal Peattie would love to see me waiting outside his office for another thirty minutes. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The kids in the projects love Aunt Pooh because she gives them money. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

This is what I wondered: Were her feelings about Nathan based on love for him or a reaction to being dropped? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He especially loved the warm brown of Mrs. Beale’s thumb, as it appeared from under the creamy white icing that she allowed him to lick away when she was frosting his favorite cake. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How thrilling. Are you in love with her?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He hated his father for it, and at the same time he still loved him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It didn’t used to feel safe how much he could love a color or a squirrel or brushing his teeth even. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"A thousand other women might have loved him with all their hearts. What did he do to make you hate him so?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For here you were, Big James, named for me—you were a big baby, I was not—here you were: to be loved. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The man I love shrouded in the man I hate. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“The Collective won’t succeed in the end. You all numb yourselves to erase who we really are. The tonics. The Cogs. But you can’t program out love and caring for one another.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I kissed Ollie, and Bas is still dead, and how are you doing, and was it stupid for our friendship to end because you loved a boy, or is that just what happens? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The owner of the aforementioned establishment liked the idea a great deal, but, he said, “Maxx is gonna love that. But no nudity. Not in front of the kids.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I love how it feels when he scoops me close like this; there's no way to fall while he's holding me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t he say “I love you”? Wednesday was boring. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I will write you cards to my family in Amalfi. They will love you like a son.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry, son. I love you so much.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I kiss the top of Helena’s head, a long kiss that says how much I will always love her, no matter what. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She suspected that he was in love with one of the nymphs and she went to look them over to try to discover which. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We loved one another, but how long would we mourn the absence of any one of us? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t eat meat anymore either, I mean hamburgers and steak and all the stuff I used to love. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved to be up there at night, especially when there was a moon. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Who doesn’t love a good pet store opening? Especially if they have balloons.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The boy could still see the palm trees, the wells, and the face of the woman he loved. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Martin! Tell me, Brother, I love hearing about the warrior monk.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Peach was suddenly in love with the outdoors. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t done anything so completely wrong since he fell in love with Cammy; didn’t that seem like a lifetime ago now. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe it’s just the fact that we loved Aunt Helen, especially me, and this was the time we could spend with her. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I think that boy is in love with you,” she accused, keeping her voice low. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Another girl might not have told herself a love story about a drawing her brother made. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you know,” she said, “it’s Valentine’s Day. You pick a special person and you tell them that you love them, and they love you back.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wore delicate “love beads” around her neck and was in wholehearted agreement with the protestors who wanted America out of Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“A girl, then! But a girl knows more about love before she’s a woman than a man ever knows!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple looked at Mamma through watery eyes, and saw nothing but love and patience in her smile. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Some African tribes in West and Central Africa love to eat chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would be saying good-bye to people we loved—other families from the massacre who were still waiting to hear their fate. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I can see what he doesn’t say: that he loves his little brother more than is healthy and would probably play on a busted-up knee to make him happy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Benji had never witnessed love at first sight until just then. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, my love, of course, but you must go. I don’t want you to be stopped on the road.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I was starting to understand was that August loved to tell a good story. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They'd both returned home for Thanksgiving with the understanding that their love would be consummated. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Janie loved the conversation and sometimes she thought up good stories on the mule, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He knew this love was hopeless and very dangerous, and he tried to fight it, but it took possession of him until all he had strength for was to conceal it from everyone but himself. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

"I will remember. Your Grace," said Sansa, though she had always heard that love was a surer route to the people's loyalty than fear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they're in love and the tattlers and scandal sheets are wrong about his countless mistresses and affairs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Yes, dying not for honor’s empty sake, nor pride nor even peace, but for that love and faith they left behind. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” he said, as though continuing a conversation begun while Eleanor slept, “I cannot believe that my wife stirred up that storm, but I do admit that one more word about pure love...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t start on me, Kennedy Do you love her or not?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I killed McKinley because I loved the people,” he is quoted as saying. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

On every page, his love for her shone out. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"He hated rest. The gods give him love and laughter, and the joy of righteous battle." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I loved it—the Tilt-A-Whirl and the Dragon Tail and the Racing Rollers—coasters on a double track! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“So I heard. Listen, sitzpinkler, I'd love to comfort you, but I could put out a house fire with the contents of my bladder right now.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She knew now of what it was that she had so silently and so early accused her aunt: it was of tearing a bewildered child away from the arms of the father she loved. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had, in the years since they got married, grown an intemperate dislike of single women and an intemperate love of God. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I just wasn’t good enough to remind him love could be a good thing. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,” he still loves to say, as often as possible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved buttered bread, and probably felt bad about taking one more thing from a cow. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But it was not heartfelt this time, not loving this time, for he no longer cared whether he helped them or not. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"You know how much I love to toy with things." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mama, when she was only known as that swift girl Yellow Kettle and had no children, had always loved to dance. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then again when the wind stirs they murmur; so these two also, stirred by the breath of love, were fated to tell out all their tale to each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you pick up a book and read me a few pages? I love the sound of your voice.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He sighs and explains that Devon is no longer with us and is in Heaven with my mother and the two of them are looking down on us and will always love us. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the fluffiest pancakes ever, and I loved that they were both sweet and tangy—my favorite combination. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Guenever, behind his smiling loving face, was sobbing as if her heart would burst. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Junior: I love it here in Montana. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is his greeting for ones he loves the most. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I try to make something good of it because I loved my father. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her cup overflowed with love for everyone and everything around her, even the enemy. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“How clever our gods are, to make such useful creatures! They look so strong and peaceful. Their drivers must love them the way we love our horses!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

To give love in the way she wanted. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The two of them looked into each other’s eyes, and in that moment, they went from hating each other to loving each other! The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I wondered what kind of love the woman felt for the inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I do love you,” she said again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not that they didn’t love me and Laleh, but they were full of Teutonic reserve, and didn’t express affection very often. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I loved everything about it. The games. The crafts. The songs.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It might be better for the people I love if I come clean. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I fell in love with a school,” he says finally. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I would still be there with her and, no matter what pictures of her when young would remind me of, I’d still love her and never trade the history we had together. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I love my parents’ murderer; I suppose I could love anyone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes! We will feign love to hide love. This is a paradox I will act with pleasure,” said Hamlet, leaning in to kiss my throat, where my heartbeat was visible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I hate eggplant and green peppers, but I love pizza. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I look way up at Tiny and say, "Can we quell the rumors of our love? It hurts my chances with the ladies." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

"A whole bunch of love, fool," Jazz said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I looked up ‘in love with a white girl’ on Google and found an article about that white girl named Cynthia who disappeared in Mexico last summer. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I had to answer "Why doesn't Daddy love us?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A pregnant girl in love, a kindly shoemaker, an orphan boy, a blind girl, and a giantess who complained that everyone was in her way when she herself took up the most room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She loved music, and, like many teenagers, she longed for individuality and independence. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“To get to see this7. God loves us. Truly we are loved.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Little Jane’s love would have been my best reward,” he answered; “without it, my heart is broken. But Jane will give me her love: yes—nobly, generously.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I believed that King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude loved each other and were true. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I thought I would love seeing him in pain. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

That got a reaction from everyone, and Moss loved the pleasure on Reg’s face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

How she could come to me if I marry him and he be so love struck with her I could figure out a way for us to rim away. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you. Do you have another boyfriend there?” he asks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

‘Orion crossed the line. He fell in love with Artemis.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A woman sang that the man she loved had betrayed her, so she would spend the holidays dreaming of what might have been. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to meet so many people on this journey, Silas. People who will love you and celebrate you, and the impact you’re going to have on them will be extraordinary.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I know what it means to lose a loved one.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I love you, too, Simon,” I echo, rolling my eyes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He told Nate about his life on the farm, how he’d loved being with his parents but had nearly gone crazy with boredom. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Jesus loves me and this I know: nobody can sit in that green swivel rocker but Father. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They love the idea! They absolutely love it!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But Milkman had no need to see her face; he had already fallen in love with her behind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If she loves beautiful waterfalls so much,” he says, “why this unattractive place?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as children we had a great love for them, they drew us vaguely thither, we played truant the whole day by them and listened to their rustling. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t stand that feeling — free-falling through the sky with my eyes closed — but David loves it. «n n Lome on over. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are almost sixteen, Kambili. You are beautiful. You will find more love than you will need in a lifetime,” he said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Stella loved the feel of that table—she loved to trace the circular patterns in the warm brown wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Simone, I hear all that, but let me ask you something else: What do you love to do?” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The protest in New York was on at the moment, but let me tell you, it didn’t look like a love train chugging through the Big Apple. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"She makes you go? Yeah, right! You love it!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Em mimicked: “ ‘You know I love you, but I can’t be part of this.’” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

You make me love you You make me love you You make me love you . All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could stay for a while and love her and then go home. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I really do love Pa and Ma, but it’s a very different feeling from what I feel for you or Mauve.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I always thought I was destined to go back home after college—but not simply because I loved home but because I could not imagine much else for myself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess so. Maybe. Is love a contest?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I have not gone to it, however, for my story, but to the Elder Edda, where the love and death of Sigurd and Brynhild and Gudrun are the subject of a number of the poems. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Commissioner García is just the nicest man. He loves golf as much as I do.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My life has been 101 calamities with at least half of them in the marriage department, but finally I got lucky in love, with Remy Fairley. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if magic was so rare it was more like myth than reality, the people of that country still loved their fairy tales. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not stay outside alone and away from those she loved, no, not even if it meant her life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s been almost a year now since I held his hand, saw his face, felt his love. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus love fuels war, turning it into an inferno whose heat and smoke rise to the heavens. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“They all love money, Pudge. Okay, go into the bathroom. Tell me what you see there.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“What are you talking about? Everyone loves you. Don’t be so dramatic.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I'd thought my heart broke when he'd told me he didn't love me, that we were better off alone than together. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was loved for his wicked humor, delivered with a Buster Keaton straight face, and boundless generosity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You two never saw West Side Story? Tony and Maria. The Sharks and the Jets. Two gangs. Can’t mix. Boy from one gang falls in love with girl from other gang.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

She fell in love with the jewels and the mirror just like Cecile knew she would. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today—perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish—do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That night...it really scared me, you know? But I do love you.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A love song for the wife, a joyful melody for the kids, all of it backed up by the steady beat of a man marching to make a living. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

You would have loved her like crazy, Hales, my uncle said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His eyes misted with love as he broke free of the others and took her into his arms as if she was the most beloved of his daughters. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You love, you fight. You fight, you love.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had a good life in California, pretty Victorian home with a peaked roof, a good marriage, a promising writing career, in-laws who loved me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m starting to hate the whiny teenage songs about love and nothing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and she loves spending time with you. But you have school to go to, and friends to hang out with, and Hamlet rehearsals, and hobby shops—” “Please don’t call them hobby shops.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pretty one has a boyfriend and goes to dances, the burned one hates her and loves the boyfriend. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the sun and the blistering heat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I love him and all I can think, all I can hear in my mind, are the words I said to him a few days ago: I would never deliver you to your own execution. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A born flunky, he loved gossip and the telling of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved to run, to jump, to test my strength and speed against other boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she had thought again as Pearl’s eyes fluttered closed once more, and she was certain that no one could ever love this child as she did. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I loved the sound of the leaves crunching under my shoes and the smell of wood burning. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

An aura is a color that your body exudes and tells the observer what kind of person you are; blue means happy, pink is loving, and black is mean. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever designed New Rome had clearly poured a lot of time and love into the project. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He would not let them pretend they loved him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He is saying I love you, she thought! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, he loved his neighbor and never even bore false witness against him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She thought of him now, while the singing and weeping went on around her—and she thought how he would have loved his grandson, who was like him in so many ways. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Forgive me for ever thinking I can do what I must alone, without Your guidance and Your love. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She knew I loved gymnastics, and she didn’t want that to ever change. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And a really bad song about love that had the word “baby” in it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

However much he loved us, he couldn’t live with the madness in our Queens home, preferring to keep his old digs at 478 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most homes look as if they have families who love them; others look like abandoned orphans with their burned-out roofs and missing windows. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I loved hanging out by the campfire after dark. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I remember I would wait outside his door at night, listening to him as he slept. I was seventeen, remember. Childish in so many ways. I thought myself in love.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“And yet I knew and loved Sonia Armstrong. What do you think, then? That I would not soil my hands with killing such canaille as that man Cassetti? Well, perhaps you are right.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Computer: “I do not—” Isaac: “Make sweet love to the cave.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He knew now why people said love gave you wings. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I thought about Kronos s words on the ship: I would love to see the terror in your eyes when you realize how I will destroy Olympus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She’d loved her home so much, always had some project underway—wallpapering, painting, refinishing furniture. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh You, Who loved Your own, hear my cry for mercy.... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents loved me, and every night when I crawled into my nice metal bed with the comfortable mattress on it, the world seemed like a good place. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Parents must love their children,” she said, "even if the children smell very bad.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I sat with my laptop on the love seat, near Dad, and listened to the music. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mom always tells me it was love at first sight. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once, when Sefia had asked why she loved gardening so much, her mother had sighed and sat back on her heels. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was going home to the master he loved, and with the help of God, he would make it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to be there, because even though I loved the Delta countryside, that wasn’t what I’d been missing. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He loved fantasy and sci-fi, and read books about what to do to survive a nuclear attack; he imagined he’d live in an underground house. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I loved white church because I didn’t actually have to go to the main service. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“At last,” Gramps said, “some scenery! I love a place that has scenery, don’t you, chickabiddy?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She put the casket away; and no longer wavering she determined to use her power for the man she loved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I loved my mom so much, I thought. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Inej had predicted that the Menagerie would arrive late—Tante Heleen loved to make an entrance—but they still needed to be in position and ready to move when the time came. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Secretly, shamefully, not entirely consciously, but for all that quite head-over- heels in love. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I loved her and now she is gone. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

What lay ahead most immediately were good-byes—dozens and dozens of them, all emotional, as the staff we loved and appreciated so much would begin to rotate out of the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were Matlock reruns on TV every afternoon at exactly this hour, and I was not embarrassed to admit out loud that I loved them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Does my love not have a hold on you . Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They sounded like they loved watching dice tumble more than anything in the world. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“It is only for a little while more, my love,” Hizdahr had assured her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ferula had come to love Clara with a jealous passion that resembled that of a demanding husband more than it did that of a sister-in-law. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will use the word “love,” and the world will not stop spinning but go right on in its courses, like the river, like the bees, like everything. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, scythes must be as loved as a glorious mountain vista, as revered as a redwood forest, and as respected as an approaching storm. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It is so full of love to them & devotion & every beautiful feeling. It is the part of the New Testament I love best.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guy like him would never love me the way I deserved to be loved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"There's a love," said the innkeeper's wife, returning. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s simple to love someone,” she said. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s the smile I love,” his mum said, reaching for the kettle as it clicked off. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We would certainly have loved to have seen that.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the darkness of a family lit up by the power and the glory, let my mother unleash the truth and love and disappointment of her life, and sit in a lonely man’s cinema. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She whispered into her only granddaughter’s ear, “You are so loved.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Around me the students move with faces frozen in solemn masks, and I seem to hear already the voices mechanically raised in the songs the visitors loved. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents said they flew a long way to take her home with them because they loved her so much they would travel the galaxy to get her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Tell him she’s beautiful. Tell him I promise to take good care of her. And I promise she’ll find a family who will love her too.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Of course if you had to choose an audience for illicit love based on the people you’d least like to have hanging around, Piper and Isaac would win hands down. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other quote comes from a man called David Clark, “a former colleague” of Scott’s, who says, “Megs and Scott are a great couple. They’re very happy together, very much in love.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all believe that sometime in the next ten school days, at least one person in the room is going to discover his or her own personal fate: true love or tragic death. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My brain says: Juan, you are a wonderful, awesome human being and a complete natural at cutting mushrooms, and I love you. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I begin to question if I deserve my mother’s love, if I can so easily treat her this way, so easily forget all about her. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Please! I'd love to see a big, fine house from the inside—just once.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He refurbished it, took it down to the water, and discovered that he loved rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

No, she thought, you love some innocent maiden who lives only in your head, a frightened child in need of your protection. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to love you, but right now I wish you weren’t my sister, either. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I know that feeling, when you love somebody like that And not just a guy. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true: Dad really did love it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“They can’t hurt me. I’m not like the rest of you. There’s no one left I love,” Johanna says, and frees her hand with an impatient shake. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heard men and women declare their love for each other then listened as others confessed that they had fallen out of love. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Even wicked people, thieves and robbers have children, love them and are loved by them, except me. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But night after night, Gertrude and I spent an hour or more in such devotions, reading tales of love and desire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He loved how much they loved each other. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All this talk about love and not getting hurt was making him real nervous. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second Anna learned from the first and claimed to love sunshine and detest lies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Because I loved being around little kids and I quickly learned that it was a pleasing answer for adults to hear. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"During the war. Her own true love had just kicked off with the dysentery." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Find Michelle, give her the note, and wait for endless love. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dylan was a total champ about it and loved the attention. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Vexed and annoyed, I cried out to the absent Hamlet, “You are a knave indeed to abuse me so with your lies and promises! You are not worthy of my love!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We would all sit together laughing and talking and loving each other across the table. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because I’d wanted to show her the snow on the ocean, the thing that had made my mom fall in love with this country, and I had wanted to make Maribel fall in love, too? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Charlotte has another cousin who is a balloonist. She stands on her head, lets out a lot of line, and is carried aloft on the wind. Mother, wouldn’t you simply love to do that?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I talked with Sovoy. He’s still not over er. He really loved her, you know. Treated her like a princess, le would have done anything for her. But she left him anyway, no explanation.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Did the gift promise anew beginning of love, as the month of January heralds the beginning of a new year? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That’s what I love about little kids—they just get to be little kids. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I loved how the sun and salt spray perfused my skin, filling me with the memory of light. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The children would love that. Be good to see you more, too, Vola. Maybe we could go for that coffee afterward.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He did not know whether to dart through the door to freedom or collapse on the bed to fall in love with her and place himself abjectly at her mercy again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Humans just couldn’t love unconditionally like animals could. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But when he was little, he loved the backhoe so much they called him Digger, and it stuck. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I love elevators,” I said to Mom as we walked toward the bus stop. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the anniversary of her wedding day became known as the Fast of Lysara, when young girls made wishes upon their clean linen pillows to dream of their true love. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even better, sweet David seems to be on the verge of declaring his love for me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Did the elderly love to be read to? Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Then I cried because I loved my parents so much. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I used to think it was just some saying in pop songs about stupid people in love. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As they talked, my old love of witnessing something new came over me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come home! Come back to your friends. We love you. We need you. This is your seat, compadre, do not leave it vacant.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved keeping up with the Kennedys in the supermarket gossip papers but also loved wagging her finger at them. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He filled his notebooks with the scientific aspects of love, with questions about breeding and heredity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would I do that? You’re my big bear. You’re my puppy. You did what you did for me. I waited three years for you to come back to me. I love you.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Easy to like, I supposed, easy to love. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Well, no one can ever claim that my sister does not love her family. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I love her and want so much to be with her, to find out where she is now so that I can meet her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love how, when we speak it to each other, it feels almost as if we're alone, sharing secrets. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He wanted to tell her that he loved her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I love art almost as much as I love books. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Were white people wanting him to love Jesus, too? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The smell of incense and lilies, the candles lit for loved ones passed away, the throaty intonations of the priest, and the majestic trumpeting of the organ. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their love, along with my independence from college and home, helped me clear my mind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next passage in my journey is a love affair. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to run out and hug him, tell him how grateful I am, tell him how much I love being his daughter. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had always loved and admired Dr. King, and when I read his speech, that love and admiration deepened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Laney didn’t like carrots so much—too crunchy and too orange—but Panda-Laney loved them! The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I can’t dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said I wouldn’t understand, but that he just didn’t love my mom anymore. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

And to a man, smiling faintly, chillingly, loving the act, the boys all just slightly nodded their heads yes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love hearing every single one of them. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was a splendid marriage and he thought of ambition only, never of love or of gratitude. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly hadn’t learned yet how to vomit at will, but if she had, she would have dearly loved to throw up on that one. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“This will happen to you, because you left your children when they were young. You think that filling our bellies is the same thing as love.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Because that was the end of the official tour, but there are a couple of things I really love about this building, and I only share them with people I suspect will care.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned, no other actor could play vulnerable quite like Ethan Hawke, and I fell madly in love with him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Elves dearly loved it, and among many uses they made of it ithildin, starmoon, which you saw upon the doors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And they were right, because if it weren't for Izzy, I wouldn't have loved shopping at... Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"I am sorry for your girl, Ned. Truly. About the wolf, I mean. My son was lying, I'd stake my soul on it. My son . . . you love your children, don't you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Prince of Dragonflies loved Jenny of Oldstones so much he cast aside a crown, and Westeros paid the bride price in corpses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But with loving parents to take care of him, his future, though maybe not as bright and promising as his brothers! seemed secure. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving a boat-shaped patch of bare dry earth, cleared and ready for love. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Romantic love was considered a kind of temporary insanity at the time, not a basis on which to choose a marriage partner. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I squeezed her hand and tried to convey in that moment how much I loved her and appreciated her. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I loved the attention, but that feeling was soon overcome by pain. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He felt a little guilty for keeping a secret, but mostly reassured—loved and reassured. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew was I was not falling in love, no matter how deserving I thought Lio was. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I could see she was in love with it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But most importantly, he loved, his way,” she said, her face starting to melt as the water rose up in her eyes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I say science at the same time that he says love, and we both laugh. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was an athlete and I loved fashion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Are you in love with someone else? Is that why you refuse to marry this man?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’d love to take a picture of the stained-glass windows, but the flash might not catch it right. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My boots are falling apart, but I still wear them because I love and cherish them. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He read her letter another time and understood that she had once admired him, there was something in him she was grateful for even if she could not love him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

How he loved this river, how it enchanted him, how grateful he was to it! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that he had never seen any creature so beautiful as this tiny bird, and he already loved her. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father’s moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came out of our lesson, Mia cheerfully skipped over to our mother and said, “Mama, I just loved dance class!” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this time I despaired over my momma: whether she was alive, whether she'd be happy to see me when I returned, whether I'd imagined her tenderness and her love. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, Gregor had loved the rain forest exhibit, and the cafeteria with french fries shaped like dinosaurs. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re still at a healthy two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, love. You should feel proud of that. You barely fetched me ten thousand the first time around.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And true love you can forget about too. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The poem ends, Soft as it began— I loved my friend. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This morning I realized that nothing has changed; on the contrary, as I’ve grown older and more mature, my love has grown along with me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But love, which had, perhaps, like a benevolent monarch, swelled the population of his neighboring kingdom, Death, had not himself descended: they owed him no allegiance here. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Yes, the family wanted Reggie to fall in love and get married and have a family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The thing I love about you, Bull, is your radiant love of mankind. Sometimes when you talk I wonder how two people so different could be married so long.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She loved his voice, she loved the look in his eyes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved you both before you were born, he wrote. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I look into Hudson’s eyes, and I know he’s not only rooting for my love, but he’s aching for the heartbreak that may be coming my way. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Before signing off, Hall told his wife, “I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don’t worry too much.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I put my mouth next to her ear and whispered, “You told JP you were in love with me before I said it to you.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No you don’t. You don’t want to go to sleep so soon. You want me to talk to you a little. You know how your baby loves to talk. Listen.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"I love it, but I don't see how you live there all alone." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But, I just let him go on and on because I knew how much he loved his Dante and he was so happy and I was happy that he was happy. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I dared not remind him of his duty as a father to love and protect me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Yet one stood there still: Dernhelm the young, faithful beyond fear; and he wept, for he had loved his lord as a father. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

One is a poetry book and that’s the one she loves. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His face is wide open and his world is full of love. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bertha knelt in front of me and took both my hands in hers and said, “Your mama loves you very much, Charlie. But sometimes, she just loses her way.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

To Cabot, Alma Ember seemed just innocent enough to be loved but adventurous enough not to bore the hell out of everyone. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“If you’re good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can’t be wrong.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

By now, I'm almost one hundred percent in love with Samuel Adams Washburn. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he messed everything up by falling in love. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was wishing that somebody would come over to us because I knew Peaches loved to dance and I figured that maybe a little shaking would get her out of her bad mood. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of Dewey Prince and how he loved Miss Marie. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children should have returned exhilarated and with a deep and abiding love for the sea and he should have returned with a fine mess of fish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t never seen no place in the world better than this place right here. You know what I love the most?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, that night, in that kitchen, there were people—people who cared about me, people who might have even loved me—squashed around Fang’s table, eating some tasty homebrewed chicken and rice concoction. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I love you, I wrote, and closed my laptop. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I’ll get to see you betray the people you love as you asked me to betray my own.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He’s not pressing me to reply in kind, to make any declaration of love. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad go to the love seat directly across from us. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She grows to love him, despite what her family might think—for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Swearing love for art, they hovered on the edge of Bohemian life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved the lunches I prepared for him—usually tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my goodness! Don’t you just love abstinence programs? So not helpful. Tiara, what have you learned here on this island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I fell in love with Morgause,” it added, “and we had a baby.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Don’t go, dear. Don’t go now, my love. My sheets are silk. I want you to feel those sheets against your skin.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Jiving means lying. It’s funny, see, because your mom and dad always love you.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It makes me think that the love between a man and a woman must be the strongest thing in the world. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

No sooner had these words been uttered than America, as one, melted into a puddle of love for Nixon, his wife, his adorable little daughters, and itty-bitty waggy-tailed Checkers. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He said he was sorry. He said he loved us.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Carousel Carl—the guy from that science show I used to love. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh. That’s interesting. I’d like to have a look at it someday. How things fit together—I love looking at that.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was useless to go on dramatizing her charms and talents for the benefit of these ridiculous knights—useless to go on hunting them with the tyrannous baits of what she thought was love. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been so worried about him, this boy I love, more worried than I knew until right this moment, staring up at the solar system. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Especially if it means more singing and stuff. Plus, you love Ms. Holly.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And if the person I loved wasn't even a person, then how can he be dead? We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I still love you, Madeline. And you still love me. You have your whole life ahead of you. Don’t waste it. Forgive me.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rules didn’t apply to Jesse Franklin, and I loved him for it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She turn from the birdbath and smile and holler, “Hi, Aibee. I love you, Aibee,” and I feel a tickly feeling, soft like the flap a butterfly wings, watching her play out there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt toward an individual than toward an organization. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I think loving a girl is a sin, but I don’t hate you for it,” Dad said. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Isabella’s parents first got divorced, they both bought her a lot of stuff as if they were competing to see which one she’d pick to love best. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I would love to talk with them, but I can barely speak. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He is with God in a place where there is only goodness and love. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Even though she didn’t know how to read them, Taryn loved to shuffle, shuffle, shuffle and then make Ivy draw one, proclaiming whatever card Ivy held in her hand was her destiny. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From die social snubs of his commanding officers, he was picking up his hatred of Eastern liberals and the Ivy League at the same time as he was falling in love with Brooks Brothers clothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My parents love each other, but they rarely show affection like this in front of us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Yes, my wife...I loved her—and I was very proud of her. She was so pretty—and so gay." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And I know that it’s wrong, but the need to hold on to the little pieces I have left of the people I love is overwhelming. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe that meant, I love you too, in whatever tongue he was speaking. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I looked through them all now with a sense of dismay, as you might a series of compromising pictures of a loved one. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling peaceful and grateful that I was so loved and cared for by my family and our friends. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, briefly, how it felt to be strong, to be in command, to be winning, to be loving the battle and the coming win. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever Grandma said, “God loves us each one as his children, and He put us on earth to share.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, she loved the crispy brown part and knew Akira did as well. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She mentioned that there was one who had singular skills at caretaking, another who loved newchildren, one with unusual scientific aptitude, and a fourth for whom physical labor was an obvious pleasure. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My problem was that I didn’t have a cent, although I felt capable, through my love, of becoming a rich man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong: I love Jupe’s strength and independence and all that. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The only thing I know for sure is that this—being here with Olly, being able to love him and be loved by him—is everything. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was silly of them, because lions, like cats, love to chase running, fast-moving things. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"So you see it, too? I tried telling him to give up, but he said he's been in love with Chantal since sixth grade." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frederick: the bunkmate Werner used to write about, the boy who loved birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I love when Mom acts like a big kid. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She taught me to love in new ways. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And someone cried: “Sinner, do you love my Lord?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was all of his love, and goodbye too, in that one chirp. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would not love me living, so let them dread me dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The camps stripped away our fathers’ dignity, and our once loving parents were suddenly in a rage over the littlest things. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The moon saw how beautiful they were and how much in love, and gave them a baby for their very own. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I am going to love fencing in here. It will truly feel like a fairy tale.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Why are you so worked up, my love?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be honest, all us kids in the class loved to see the two of them square off. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“No, you were right. Luke loved you. At the end, he realized his fate. I think he realized why you couldn’t help him. He remembered what was important.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

While she was growing up, Petey’s mother, frank as she was, would talk to Petey about falling in love and falling in lust and everything in between, because surely someone would one day notice Petey. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Okay there’s no love lost between Violet and me, but I take her part, not yours, you old dog.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

People, she believed now, shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“At least,” she said, “you all used to be so sweet and loving to each other it was a joy to see.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But at least you let us speak together. You give a passage for loving words to reach loving ears. We are not ungrateful.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The pi-ana cinched it. Then two days later here come Mr. Texas. It like to kilt me, seein’ you was still in love with him.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So Tiny squeezes into his chair, I am duly amazed, and then he turns to me and he whispers really loudly because secretly he wants other people to hear, "I'm in love." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Axel remembers the way Byrd loved the crane’s dancing, the way Frank wished for the bird to make its trumpeting sound, and how he watched and listened for both. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I could say so much about why I love you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“So full of love that woman, so full of hope in the goodness of others.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I remember asking Madrina when she was trying to teach me this tradition why the color of love isn’t pink, or red. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As my wife’s loving voice filled the room, a crescent smile appeared on his face. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing more, except that I don’t believe I shall ever marry. I’m happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Food stains appeared at every turn—melted cheese caked into the carpeting, tomato sauce drying on the arm of a love seat, a squashed eclair oozing custard all over an ottoman. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. You will. The universe is shining with love, baby. To survive this night—that’s what you need—love.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I have no love for them. Athena, do you truly think it safest to destroy them?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They wore their love like a heavy perfume, exuding a transparent commitment, touching each other, referring to each other. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s as if when you love someone, they become your reason. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His heart cracked, and he fell in love. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It meant that she had to walk forty-eight blocks each day but she loved the walk, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark Antony needed to be with the woman he loved. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The mountain outdistanced their destruction, just as love had outdistanced death. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I always been tolt they ain’t the same as us, they don’t feel things like white people do, they don’t love their kids the same, they don’t love nothing but ducking work and sleeping. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She said, “I loved that book. Meeting you is like a miracle.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not everyone fully understands the true power of ABBA, but you'll be hard-pressed to find an Iranian who doesn't love their entire catalog of music. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“She’s completely in love with this guy. The only reason she even came to the concert was to see him. I’m the big Peppers fan. I bought the tickets a long time ago.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, put your hood back, for the love of Jesus. And who are you supposed to be?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He saw marriage as the loving alignment of two people who could lead parallel lives but without forgoing any independent dreams or ambitions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sixty men, in a place far away from anyone they loved, had to die. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Compared to that, what is falling in love? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps waking up in DC, and Henry keeps waking up in London, and the whole world keeps waking up to talk about the two of them in love with other people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I wish it were as easy to send myself away from here as it is to send my love. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! He does not care about Jane Fairfax. In the way of love, I am sure he does not. He would do any good to her, or her family; but—” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Jule thought for a bright second then that someone could love her, and that she could love herself and deserve it all. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But childrens love these holes most of all, for there they can hide the secret notes and the tiny treasures. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It felt like being whole again; he hadn’t realized how much he loved it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But some love you. I’m speaking of Maria and, of course, Celia.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you, Marlena. I love you with my heart and soul, and I want to be with you.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh I love to tease you, baby. With your priest and your English girl, and really you are just like me underneath.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘My grandfather built this house ...’ ‘My mother knew it and loved it.. .’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what someone gets for loving me? They get to help me pay for all my care, and then they watch me die. How is that fair to anyone?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But the dichotomy of love and disdain living side-by-side is what surprises me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I can smell the sex on her, and my only hope is that she can smell the love on me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lockers are one thing I love about junior high. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Not always. At least, not the teacup ones. It's just that Her Highness loves you one day and hates you the next." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It seems that some women love to be exploited. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some gypsy boy or girl had loved this horse. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn’t have to venture deep down in order to get to love.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A God of perfection and love would never have allowed the accident. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We really should plan a trip to visit. It’s an orphanage. WeVe never been to Africa. I would love to do something with my charity in Africa.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"A mathematical Mind, the greatest Mind of all, a Mind full of perfection and love—this type of Mind is behind all of creation." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maya thought that if everyone had to die eventually, this wouldn’t be the worst way to go, with the sun on your face and your head in the lap of someone you loved. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The first he’d seen in some while, common in the north, leading out of the looted and exhausted cities, hopeless messages to loved ones lost and dead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

You have to love it when the doctor lays all this horrific stuff on you and then tells you not to worry. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is something wrong with your ears? Mix it with some water and fry it, osiso! They say children love the taste of this thing.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had loved history until that spring when we began the study of slavery. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I love the way you can be exhausted and sweaty and running with nine other guys, and yet, at the risk of sounding overly Zen, you are still so wonderfully alone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted to comfort her sister, for Cecilia had always loved to cuddle the baby of the family. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother used to tell me, “I chose to have you because I wanted something to love and something that would love me unconditionally in return.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Mama will be upset that I love Mrs. Baxter?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was using a wheelchair now, and he was fighting time to say all the things he wanted to say to all the people he loved. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped short when he saw Ashish sprawled on the couch, mantislike legs splayed out so he took up every inch of space on the love seat. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And the second feeling was that he loved food. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

His strong, skilled fingers shaped the signs with loving precision. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s not as if I didn’t love her. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She sensed that what her aunt spoke of as love was something else—a bribe, a threat, an indecent will to power. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

What I really meant was, “How can she not come back to me? She loves me.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Joy herself was caught between loving the country that offered her and her family new opportunities and being frustrated with that country because it still made her feel like a second-class citizen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All I wanted was a sign that we came from love. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather died today, Ivanito. I know you don’t remember him but he loved you very much.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond reason. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You been warned of her power, You been warned of her charm. They say when she loves you, She causes bodily harm! “ Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I love all of them,” Ginny said, but not in a selfish way. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I love the color and I like how it fits you on the top and bellows out on the bottom.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Again, Holiness, I interrupt in the name of love. Please hurry along as best you can to the end.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Your brother would want you to go on living your life. He loved you more than anyone.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dad had seen the car in the factory and fallen in love with it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he loved the girl dearly, and he felt half-proud and half in awe of the beautiful adult she would be, so soon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

How did she know I loved to write song lyrics? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Peace women simply loved maleness, for its own sake. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He loved Tom and he tried to give him the things he himself found pleasant. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I made myself American-pretty so that the five or six Chinese boys in the class fell in love with me, everyone else—the Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese boys—would too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must love you deep inside, but I kind of like having you all to myself. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She loves school yearbooks in a way that I don't understand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even if God’s need for him was the greater in normal times, now it was obvious that his first love’s need was pressing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom must have been young and in love with Madoc back then. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“So you must have lied when you told me all those things ... you must have, because I can’t believe your love is really that feeble.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes and faces about him were not at all the way the black preacher’s had been when he had prayed about Jesus and His love, about His dying upon the cross. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, really. You’ll love it. When the play ended and everyone clapped and cheered for us, I felt like I could do anything. I even thought maybe I could have a career as an actress.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A man in a tuxedo walks along calling, “For the love of God, let me through,” though no one steps aside, and he moves no more quickly than anyone else. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"It's a love story and everything. Guess who's going to be in it! What movie star. Guess!" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have that, not in this world, no matter how much they loved each other. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed about the pinata Bernabe, and about all the naked women he had ever loved hitting him with sticks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To all of them Samuel communicated his love of learning, and he set them apart from the prideful ignorance of their time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I might take public transit even if I wasn’t in love with it,” Sasha explained. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Do you love her?” asked Degalis, cutting to the root “Yes, I do. She has been good to me. I am fend of her.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squared my shoulders and tried to remember what Grandma had said: “God loves you, child; no matter what, he sees you as his precious idea.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not? Your food is amazing, and you love cooking.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Mamá is in a lot of pain right now. She needs to hear that we still love her. Think about it. When was the last time you reached out to her?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Okay. How about this? Find animals loving, caring forever homes. Is that a bumper sticker?” she asks Levi. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“She love them very much, how carefree and crazy they are. Me too.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I loved how relaxed my mom always seemed in Belize and how her accent would come out stronger when she talked to Grandma Caye. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Okay, I get off work at six. Applebee’s. Might have to multitask, though, because I’m trying to finish a story—don’t take it personally okay he’s calling I have to go thanks love you bye.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the time I figured he must consider himself quite a fine fellow and had thought up a cutting remark about how only a mother loves a fat man, he was gone. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I loved any subject that involved writing and labored through precalc. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But he also loved the noise, which came later in the day. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy used strength, Amelia wits, and Isabelle fell in love with the dragon, because that’s the sort of girl she was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

She could hear the soft whisper of his labored breathing, the endless rush of waters, the faint chords of some love song drifting up from the yard, so sad and sweet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I love hearing about people who figure things out for themselves. Plus, I love to think about things that no one understands. Yet.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Already Mrs. McCullough felt dizzy with love for this child she had yet to meet. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of standing helplessly by while danger circles someone I love. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You only get one chance to love, to be loved. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He loved the theater and talked about it with friends and with his mother. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You know Mom and I love Fig very, very much.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The extra help has freed Luma to focus her energies on her real love: coaching. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She loved nothing in the world except this woman’s son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn’t the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of girls your age would love to have a doll like this.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I loved his goatee even more than his mustache. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They carried large pictures of loved ones who had died. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you forever. And I will see you tomorrow.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In those days they were all milked by hand, and I loved to watch the dairymaid squirt the white milk into her pail while the cow placidly chewed its cud. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He does love me,” Celia says, though the words do not sound as strong when they fall from her lips as they did inside her head. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When you love someone you create a new world for them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had a rough life, I know, but she loved telling jokes and teasing the kids when I was around. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The camera would love them, no matter what they were wearing or how disheveled their hair had become. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You do love symbols,” I said, hoping to steer the conversation back toward the many symbols of the Netherlands at our picnic. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was a thing her mom did that she never heard of any other moms doing, and Ivy loved it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Carla is always falling in love and talking about getting married. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s a pretty good love story,” I said as we pulled into her driveway. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ashamed of his terror, while Beregond of the Guard thought first of the captain whom he loved, Pippin got up and peered out. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Far into the night, Miss Havisham’s words, “Love her, love her, love her!” sounded in my ears. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I guess somebody somewhere loves to see poor folks in the hood begging for food. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some nights, in the soft, helpless moments before sleep comes, she recalls their conversation on the roof about love and dark matter. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You are not ambitious for a crown, are you, my sweet love?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Tim and I are doing well. He sends his love. He really wanted to be here, but he’s on call tonight and had to go in.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

How they taught her to honor where she was from but to love and embrace the customs of the new country. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Anyways, they love their satellite TV down there, and it so happens that this particular cantina picks up one of the Miami stations loud and clear.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It's about this photographer lady and this dude who writes poems and they like each other, then they hate each other, then they love each other, and then it's over. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Hamlet’s love led me into this maze, where he abandoned me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That and your supposed love are two supermagnets that repel each other. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“This is your journey, your batde. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I am not in the mood for Tyrone’s sorry “Baby, gimme some loving” routine, so when I see him in the hall, I storm past as if he’s not even there. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She really does love poetry in a deep way. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Of course I do. I love you best in the world,” Mama said soothingly. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sara reminded me that I’m goofy and I love trying new things, especially in the kitchen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Who loved to run on the beach with his cousin. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We must build bridges, conquer hate with love, and meet intolerance with a renewed commitment to education and open-mindedness. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He loved that boy and that boy loves him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Ivy couldn’t remember ever wanting someone to love a picture as much as she wanted June to love this one. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Your grandfather loved to see me in a brightly colored sari." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever love they had was lost in the constant fighting that went on between them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I think she’s seven or eight, quite musical, and she loves the piano, just like you.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I love these books,” June said, picking up a thin paperback and opening to the first page. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure my cousin at the LA Times is going to love this story!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The uniform I once loved now made me feel like a criminal. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Rosalie was an exceptional child. The friendliest, lovingest . . Turtle crumpled the newspaper. "Let's go. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day, Will had felt as though something were watching him, something cold and implacable that loved him not. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was little left of that countenance that she had loved so much. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“You better be lucky we love Jupiter, fool.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“If she loves it so much, she should quit waiting tables and get a job cooking.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Poppy, we love you!” she said, clinging to the bars with both hands by now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was excited to get started because I loved painting. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Let us be dissatisfied until every state capitol will be housed by a governor who will do justly, who will love mercy, and who will walk humbly with his God. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I love it when it gets cool enough for me to start doing interesting things with layering. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"We'll never get Harper to agree," I say, even though I love her idea. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There certainly is no deep seated love between Mr. Ellis and myself but this school project brings out problems we all have. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every single one of them was forced to take the life of someone they loved. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I love plucking them from the tawa, the cast-iron pan my mom reserves for this specialty, with a little pat of butter. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Even if he’d been half forced into it, though, my dad loved the job, which baffled my mother given the amount of time it demanded. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He’d told people that he “loved” Bobby Fischer...as a brother. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t help how much I love having Moonie with us. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In Chinese Geak means “jade,” the most precious and loved of all gems to Asians. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing, though: she always told him she loved him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The Buchanans. Joaquin, we would never...we would never do what they did. You know that, right? We love you. You’re ours, no matter what.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to leave you, but I love you too much to stay.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Another plaintive love song, she didn’t recognize this one; though as she listened, she began to hear, beyond his voice, the delight of her family. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant I love you, but we'd never really said that to each other. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Our friends and loved ones were used to attending debutant balls, but since I didn’t have one the year before, this party was like my make-up quinceañera. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I loved a man who was forbidden to me. I enjoyed his caresses, then married him in secret. He renounced me and now he is dead. All of my family is dead.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I just love fish. Do you know why?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“My mother used to sing to us when we were children. My brother and me. She always said that it didn’t matter what your voice was like so long as you loved the song.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And suddenly I think I might be in love. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I whispered, “You can be in love with me.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I love him so much, Will!” she managed to whisper shakily. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

David would love to go, but it’ll be harder for me if he does. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have told her since she could understand simple words that we are not free to love whom we will! Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had the other boys come over, and when I introduced them, he beamed and said, “The United States Air Force would love to have each and every one of you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

That they were all she would ever know of love. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The trilling of our neighbors’ tongues set loose knives that cut the flesh from our bones and made us fall down with our shame and our love and our anger. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Hey, Buford’s just saying good morning. He loves his hologram! Besides, we all miss the coach. And Frank makes a cute bulldog.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Now he has Jo and the baby, but as Jo herself knows and had written to Vincent only six months earlier while in labor—“there’s no one in the world whom he loves as much.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Since the day that she had taken him home when he was released from the hospital, he had lived here with her, under her loving, careful eyes. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large television system and all those French love songs and rara records, with the talking drums and conch shell sounds in them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Think of all the love poured into him. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘You lived your life in a loving way, and died with dignity. I can now grant you any wish you desire.’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, all right. I love you, baby, study hard." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Here may it wave, our boast, our pride And join in love together The thistle, shamrock, rose entwine The Maple Leaf forever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the feeling of a cigarette between her fingers, the rhythmic rise and fall of it to her lips. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. Sister Fenella, she loves her like—” He was going to say like I do, but thought better of it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was no crime to find oneself attracted to another, she wrote, or to believe what one felt was love. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A true Piscean, he loved the water, especially if swimming meant competing with the other children in races. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the electricity coursing through the air like I was coming alive for the first time in months, and I loved it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“If you think that, why do you suppose I didn’t run straight into Balekin’s loving arms?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I love the way it rains here,” he told her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“If he loves you, he’ll make you feel like a million dollars.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Steve nodded, but nobody else seemed to care much about Will’s love life. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Dimple hung her head, relief and love and joy overpowering her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And could politics ever be an expression of love? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would it be too political, or would that fit in with Woodstock’s “peace and love” theme? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Like all great communicators, he loved language: he wrote a whole book about the word ‘serendipity’, another about the phrase ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, and he co-edited a volume of social science quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She says, “This dog is a love. And he deserves love. You are his home. So there’s his food and his vet records. And the bed. All you need.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I’m not a person who likes to judge why people fall madly in love with some types of people because I don’t believe such things can be explained. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“To punish her He made her walk in sand for forty years. And she returned to her king, the Lord, and He loved her and sent her David!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

That Jackie was gone and in her place was this new Jackie with blue streaks in her hair, out on the porch telling Bertha how much she loved the Blue Ridge Mountains. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“What a labor of love it is,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

On this night, he thought of all the dead Marines he had known and not known, and he loved all of them; the beauty and loss of this night moved him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz knew it, and for some reason he loved to rile her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was no stranger, but the love of their hearts. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But I do business with Chinese pirates all the time. I’d love to visit China. I’m also dying to go see Japan. It’s on my bucket list.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even though he was reluctant to come, Vincent loves his new city. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It summed up in a few words what she most loved about him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Grandma, did you love me, or did you not understand me either? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“A shame to kill you now,” Kronos mused, “before the final plan unfolds. I would love to see the terror in your eyes when you realize how I will destroy Olympus.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She would love to have just a teeny peek inside Thelma’s classroom. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I love you. Good-by—because I love you.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“She said something about sparing those you love.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have pulled us into the pool together and died like that, his lips on mine, certain that I loved him and that he loved me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Before the war, people raised a thumb to say “One love” to each other, an expression popularized by the love and influence of reggae music. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But before he could reach the donkey—one of the creatures which he loved the most—a shiny blue crow fell from above to perch on the donkey’s unprotesting muzzle. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing unusual; lots of people record Memories of greeting loved ones or sending them off. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The love of them—the touch, taste, and feel of them—was not just an easy luxurious human vice; they were, for me, A Thing To Do Instead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time the shape was used as a representation of love was in a painting from 1250. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I have done this before—in my fear landscape, with the gun in my hand, a voice shouting at me to fire at the people I love. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was an ugly dog, but already, I loved him with all my heart. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Father’s mission had been a success in at least one regard: the Congolese loved our music. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, is that so? You know what, I'd love to help but forgot my wallet at home this morning," he says with a disappointed shrug. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know Sarah Ruth. She’s my sister. She’s sick. She had her a baby doll made out of china. She loved that baby doll. But he broke it. “He broke it. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“That’s not the point. I love working at the Idle Hour. Anna and Richard count on me. It’s part of my life, and I won’t let you take that away from me, too.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The space is a single room with a shelf and small love seat, and a pretty vase of flowers in the kitchen nook. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“I love your hair color. It’s such a rich, chocolaty brown. I think I might dye my hair soon. I’m sick of the blonde, I want to go dark. Like yours.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Grief, terror, love, longing — these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think love wears out, and Papa’s love for his brother had worn out now that Uncle Darnell rattled and hollered in the night like a ghost. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care, for I loved to hear the tall tales. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Son to an English professor who hated everything about the South, grandson to a gentleman farmer who loved everything about it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He loved this place, a magisterial old house in the Garden District. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I used to love to drive that old green pickup truck. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

How I loved to sit and watch the way she worked. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He loved being back in his father’s element—with the fresh sea air in his lungs and the salty spray on his arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mosquitoes love to feast on me, and when I was a kid it was bad. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I love you so much, you know that? I would do anything—” His voice broke, and he paused. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If the love had worn off, why did she marry him?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blank white screen reminded Hugo of a brand- new piece of paper, and he loved the wonderful whirring sound from the projector that filled the theater. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

If she really loved Maya and Lauren like she said she did, she would have stopped drinking a long time ago. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but think about how much Twig would have loved a mixed-up Mr. Potato Head costume, in all its weirdness, and I made a mental note to tell her when she got back. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I love how Albert can’t choose one character while Oliver wants to write about everyone. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even if she didn't love him, couldn't she see what a foul person Igor was? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I know how much she loves your class.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dancers danced; musicians played queer tunes with bells and squeaks and bladders; singers sang ancient love songs in the incomprehensible tongue of Old Ghis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His father may have called their plow horse President Lincoln as a joke, but Macon always thought of Lincoln with fondness since he had loved him first as a strong, steady, gentle, and obedient horse. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was often sad, thinking I had caused her to die and therefore my father could not love me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My love for him vacillated from one entry to another. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He thought how much the brilliant creatures would love it when the sky was open and they could skim about over bright water again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As we head to the car, I take a giant bite of my ice cream—I love the fire-hot/cold on my teeth. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I thought of that look of love and compassion that she wore as she looked at me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You think ... Luke actually loved me? After all that happened?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Nazis, however, loved bombarding us with their successes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I had come to love my small size, my speed, my slipperiness. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

When she was eighteen, Baby Kochamma fell in love with a handsome young Irish monk, Father Mulligan, who was in Kerala for a year on deputation from his seminary in Madras. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved her little girl because she felt sorry for her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And romantic stories: how Potter Palmer had been so in love with his wife, Bertha, that he had given her a luxurious hotel, the Palmer House, as a wedding present. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By the end of the school year, when it was time for her to return home to London, the two of them had openly declared their love for each other. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The boy grew to splendid manhood, a great athlete and hunter, despising those who lived in luxurious ease and still more those who were soft enough and silly enough to fall in love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did so, since he was in love and anxious to please her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loves those kids but they slow her down. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The last time, Jane! What! do you think you can live with me, and see me daily, and yet, if you still love me, be always cold and distant?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t love her, Mother. That is, I like her, certainly.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was Robert’s reproach making itself felt by a quicker, fiercer, more overpowering love, which had awakened within her toward him. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

But the truth is that no one is innocent in love, and nobody forced me to love Kelly J. I don’t want to stop just because she laughs at me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We loved them in the Lord, Brother Gerald said, but they had their own places. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the picture I wrote: I’d love a family rich or mid as long as they want a loving kid. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A quilt started by a young love and never finished for some tragic reason? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What I’d love is if we could finally declare The Reign of Ridiculous over.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Your mom is going to love this,” I said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They had a Newfoundland called Bob, who loved to go on walks with Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe God had proved merciful to someone who loved Him so much. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Violet said, “and then, if you don’t mind, I should love to look at any of your books concerning mechanical engineering. Inventing things is a great interest of mine.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Neel felt a rush of love for his sister. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He couldn’t have, Rachel. You know he couldn’t have done this. You couldn’t love a man who would do that, could you?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he was gonna cook up a fancy supper for Mama with candles on the table and Willie Nelson on the radio and maybe she’d wear that red dress he loved so much. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

But she still felt that it would only happen, that they would only be able to love each other into eternity, if he were to offer his prayers to God. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke real slow for her to understand that we were talking about love, love among us women. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think love comes first and then the reasons follow. When I am with him, I feel that I don’t need anything else.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Younger than both Frieda and Pecola, I had not yet arrived at the turning point in the development of my psyche which would allow me to love her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For the love of God, somebody silence him!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Us worry bout God a lot But once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you’re good at art, and you love it,” I told her. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well, my love,” said Mr. Popper meekly, and he settled down with his pipe, his globe, and his book of Antarctic Adventures. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wished she’d been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don’t give up their children. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, I’ve been thinking a lot about some of the answers you give during discussions. I love it when you share your opinions.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I remember happier times—movie nights in our old basement, sharing popcorn, and my mother’s un-ironic love for eighties movies starring Molly Ringwald. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It choked him like weeds and rot and colonies of vermin, clogging and staining him, stagnant and fetid, so that nothing so noble as love, or—gods above—forgiveness, could ever claim space in him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“My grandma would love it in here,” I whisper back. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about that, my love. We’ll get you a change of clothes,” said Mother, moving in front of him to shield his embarrassment. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Not merely the love of one person, but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He loved playing the familiar tune on the ancient piano. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In that moment, being surrounded by a diverse group of ethnicities—all of us about to become citizens together—I realized that this is what I loved about America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Tiny might ignore you when he's in love. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She even loved Martin Addison the few times she met him. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“But she had a love for, well, just about everything. The river. The meadows. People, most of all. She had a gift with people. But Madeline, she wasn’t like that.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Everybody had loved the first girl, who had always smiled and been happy in her work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I love the smell of bookshops—all those pages waiting to be turned. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was no joy in them, no love. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I know you love him too. But you never even tried to be his friend after we broke up.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A victim was still needed before the outsiders and many of the old inhabitants of Macondo would credit the legend that Remedios Buendía did not give off a breath of love but a fatal emanation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They died between the sacred walls of the church of God, and they were discussing the eternal meaning of love. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each evening we promised, “Let’s just be friendly and loving. No politics tonight.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He loved her with his whole mind and body. He gave her everything he could imagine.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I love you, Momma, more than anything on earth or in the Lord's heavens above. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Despite this, there was little love lost between the two towns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was small yet fast; I loved racing with the bigger boys across the bumpy ice. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Are you in earnest? Do you truly love me? Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to say that, you know. There’s nothing wrong with loving a stuffed animal.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m right for him and he’s right for me and that feels beyond right—the universe knew it was love before we did. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Lisa must love this place, though. It pretty much defines outdoorsy.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He spoke of his love for his daughter, my commitment to the country, and my dangerous career as a politician. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time and again she told me that Bess loved me, wanted me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love the serious look on his face; how he’s trying to find ways to make this work. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Just like Sofia Coppola, I was a sucker for a love story. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sequence of his emotions was revulsion, guilt, pity, then love. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by suicide? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘Didn’t it used to stand here, at the Temple of Zeus? Feel free to tell me I’m wrong. I’d love to be wrong.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a delaying tactic, the kind that juries love. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I made you forget all your past loves.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

With love, Your grandmother I had a letter from everyone I knew. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or this last sentence in the article: “One thing is sure: the kids at Lincoln Elementary School love their frindles, and no one seems to be backing off in this war of the words.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember knowing the kids in my district loved being with me.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Raleigh accent is soft and beautifully cadenced, but my brother's is a more complex hybrid, informed by his professional relationships with marble-mouthed, deep-country work crews and his abiding love of hard-core rap music. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This was the woman I promised to love. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was too old to run to the United States.You know that. But I’m sure she loved you,” he added as the little boy sniffled. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glaucus called up to her, “Maiden, I am no monster. I am a god with power over the waters—and I love you.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first king of the City of Bright Moonlight came to power, the people had no love for their new ruler. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Catherine could not walk very far now and I loved to ride out along the country roads with her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I loved the way my sister’s hand fit in mine. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Tell me, Jon, if the day should ever come when your lord father must needs choose between honor on the one hand and those he loves on the other, what would he do?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Katherine Goble had fallen in love with her job at Langley virtually the moment she walked through the door of West Computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I love dusk; it always astonishes me that something so beautiful happens every single day. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A thousand years ago, she had known a girl who loved lemon cakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On Snow’s visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Book Scavenger was an online community of people who loved books and puzzles and games as much as Emily did, and it traveled with her no matter where her family lived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"My husband. Unfortunately he had to leave. He would have loved to've met you, but then he's always dashing off. Business, you know." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well, Signora Mondopoco is very big and she loves dollies. She is like a little girl in her mind sometimes.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s about my family. Friends. It’s about living life. Spending time with the people you love while you still can.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"It was your blade I needed," Tyrion said, "not your love." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And the naturalists at the University will love to be able—” “You don’t need to sell me,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had taught me which plants made which colors and how to mix them to make more, and I loved being his assistant in both the kitchen and the field. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It's one of those moments when I just love her compulsive punctuality. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have a sense that love changes all things all the time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby loved Yugoslavia because of the superstar status accorded him by its chess adherents, and, on a delightful autumnal day, he entered the tournament hall at Lake Bled primed to play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have always had a childish love of parcels. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They helped Jade Dragon with her work, and whenever they flew in the sky she was overwhelmed with love and pride. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And he told his son he loved him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! Now you’re really talking stupid. Why, you’re not even old enough to know what true love is.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a moment’s silence; then, in a very low voice, “I love you more than anything in the world,” he said. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also learned that love is a giant pretzel. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“She might not love your outfit, but she loves you,” I said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was true: the other mother loved her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

For example, in the silly song “Skidamarink,” the phrase “I love you” can be clapped, or even just the “you.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I have never known what to believe, but one thing is clear—the queen loves Charlotte with all her being. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"It's kind of demeaning—for her, to ask, and for him, to be exploited like that just because he loves her." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your sympathy,” I said, “is overwhelming. No wonder the patients love you.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

What if there was somebody waiting to love him? The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean that. He’s hard to figure out. He loves his family, more than anything in the world except the Marine Corps, yet none of us ever have a real conversation with him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course the British children loved singing about their gracious king. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might feel good to be able to forgive them, respect them, maybe even love them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Virgin was full of a quiet, peaceful love. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His wife, Sophie, a stunning Sicilian woman whose picture on his desk I had long been in love with, was dead nearly five years from cervical cancer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom was, well, Mom, she loved cooking. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Removing the monster was the best way to protect the people you loved. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He loved his son, and Kermit had his whole life ahead of him and was engaged to be married. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He was dreading the thought of leaving me and the girls for long stretches, he said, but he also kept reminding me of how secure our love was. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Every airplane, no matter how far it is up there, I send love to it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Or are you one of the fragile creatures who will fall in love with a lord’s son and pine away?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

You can, you know, if you like, for that other good fellow—he must be a good fellow, my dear, and a fine fellow, or you could not love him—hasn’t spoken yet.’ Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“She loves her boy,” the old man said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if it was spying, it was not jealousy, because I did not love him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then look at my father and mother, although maybe they didn’t ever really love each other. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was always there for me when I needed a warm, sincere, loving hug. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He loves to run,” Kaerva said with genuine affection in his voice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed a strange way to live, without family, but he was just as glad not to have to pretend to love another set of parents. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been counting on Celia—who loved performing and attention and everything that made people exceptional at talent shows—to do the dance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It's true that Peeta froze me out after I confessed that my love for him during the Games was something of an act. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe while strolling through the sidewalks of the Jordan district that she loved to visit, I would meet a woman like you. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dr. King spoke of the love Paul describes in Romans 13:10—the love that “does no harm to its neighbor.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He felt indeed that this love, this blind love for his son, was a very human passion, that it was Sam- sara, a troubled spring of deep water. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d love to see math and numbers the way I do—in everything from the stars to building construction to ripples on a lake. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, well, we didn’t have fireplaces in Saudi Arabia. He read to me at night by the fire. I loved the stories. When he died, I was so sad.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He contemplates the “bond that never lets go of us, not even when we suffer the most, the bond of God’s love.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I love being a sixth year. And we’re going to be getting free time this year. Whole periods when we can just sit up here and relax.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I lost my fun- loving attitude about life. I had to be the man in the family and look out for Mama and Jakob,” he said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know I love peanuts in my Coke, too? And blue is my favorite color?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could a stone image look to her like the man she had loved for so long? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved music and had talent, and she played the piano, sang, and performed, in school and at home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Angela and Radar were lying together on a love seat, Radar’s legs dangling over the side. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how hard it is to see someone you love in such a dark place?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He loved his brother, but he would not have wanted to be with him in the Whispering Wood for all the gold in easterly Rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My parents had birthed and raised and loved me, and for that I owed them a debt. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I let her fool me with all that rocking and love talk. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“And now, my love, take off your clothes. And I will show you what else I can do.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I love these,” said Kyle, taking a box off the platter and opening it. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

What I’m figuring, see, is by the time Shiloh’s better, everybody will love him so much they just can’t let him go—even Dad. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it doesn’t matter. I’m still glad you got the goat; I love the goat. But it’s such an economic burden.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Heart: “Without breath or warmth, a heart without love cannot beat.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the Fairy Queen loved her daughter, too, but Elowen had never been able to see it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah loved soccer and wanted his brother to play for the Fugees too, on the older boys’ team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to grab every last thing I loved and stake it ruthlessly to the ground. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Also, she must still be either hating Mr. McAllister like poison or else loving his eyes out and having second thoughts about not getting annulled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They said they loved each other, used “darling” and “dearest,” and knew their future was together, but they held back from wilder intimacies. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I asked if this also worked as a love potion. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He writes to Jo that at times he loves everybody and at other times everything seems stupid, petty, superficial. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t love them minding my business, but I’ve got to admit that sounds like a pretty great idea. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

As little kids we used to love riding around in it, but now it makes us cringe. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“You would be amazing. I would love to have you.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I get off, she calls out, “Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or better, someone who knew everything already and loved her for it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve built the image in my mind of Cathy, sitting quietly waiting for her pregnancy to be over, living on a farm she did not like, with a man she did not love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ellis, I love you even though you are a complete idiot. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Yes, probably, Matt decided.The water was free, and El Patron loved a bargain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God. I really love this. I know exactly what moment that was.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And he looked in the rearview mirror, backing up the car, and said, “I love you, too. Did you lock the door?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not ever say that again. If you ever loved Oak, do not say those words.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I hear how he loves her more than me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Please, she thought, wondering if her mom, the goddess of love, could hear her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I loved his little solemn air of gallantry. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Briony took her hand and thought she could see how one might begin to love Lola. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I think if she loved my daddy she wouldn’t go messing around with somebody else.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jesus doesn’t love children who don’t behave,” the gray woman said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were young and sure they loved each other. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Against all odds, she nurtured a precious family bonded by an intense love. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well. .He trips about as he drives, and I see he deserves at least some form of an answer. “She doesn’t want to love you,” I tell him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Then it can be no argument to prove that he is in love. But I do not think it is at all a likely thing for him to do. Mr. Knightley does nothing mysteriously.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“You are some child’s toy, am I right? And you have been separated, somehow, from the child who loves you.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“He was...a kind man. He made my mama laugh, and he made us feel loved. I—we both miss him all the time.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And most of all, how I love Cinderella, because who doesn’t? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

With all the energy and love I could offer from my being, I pulled alongside the head priest, pleading for Inti to rise and join us in another year. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

What can you say when someone you’re in love with tells you something like that? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Me too. And guess what else? It turns out that the Portuguese shark is the deepest-living shark on earth. I love that. I think that’s really cool.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Is it the brain that makes people love and hate? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The problem with my job is that I fall in love too quickly. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I loved the Shenandoah Valley, every inch of its gorgeous spread. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I loved watching people do things they were really good at, and the crews who came out like this were always at the top of their game. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Klaus stayed up all night reading, which was normally something he loved to do. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

God’s love resides inside us, so whenever we go out into the world, we take the church with us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“For someone who loves silence, she certainly talks a great deal,” thought Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I’m done, he’s giving me a look like he’s in love with me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The church does have a history marred by pain and loss, but it has also inherited a legacy of hope, love, and reconciliation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me when we let go, but no words of love exit her mouth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mama loved her drugs more than she ever loved me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The men who took her to one or another of those places had merged into one large personality: the same language of love, the same entertainments of love, the same cooling of love. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time he is telling me he loves me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This Wang Lung heard his uncle’s wife say in the court outside his window as he lay dozing and weary in his room one early morning, exhausted with his love. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"The one they caught, too. I think he's in love with her. Here." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He felt no love for her, and he hardly even wondered what was happening to her. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He loved ocean currents and architecture and Charles Dickens, and his variousness made her feel limited, overspecialized. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Do you know how much I would have had to explain about hobbits and lembas bread and wizards who hold your cheeks in their hands and pour love into you? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Above all he loved to watch with wonder and admiration whenever Dustfinger took a few little sticks and lit a fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen!” boomed the voice Scipio loved to imitate because it sounded so much more impressive than his own. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The second church offered deep analysis of the scripture, which my mom loved. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was just another one of die “liberal North” actions that didn’t help Harlem to love the white man any. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do too have little children who love you,” she said, on the brink of tears. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For, excepting drinking and a certain solitary secret pleasure, Antonapoulos loved to eat more than anything else in the world. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had never loved him so deeply as at this moment, and not merely because he had stopped the pain. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, rat or no rat, your mom still loves you.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the feeling of flying in the air. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I know a little pizza place. You guys will love it. And maybe when we’re done eating traffic won’t be so bad.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Wow. I didn’t think they’d have a piano here. It looks like it’s in decent shape, too. I love the details.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now, let us go to your village, where you shall present me to your true love, as a token of your devotion to her.... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turned the corner in the upstairs hall on my way to lunch and fell in love. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greeting guests was what Abuela loved most besides cooking and family. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I loved once,” Buttercup said after a moment. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because I loved a boy once, and he was murdered, and I’m afraid that will happen to me again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It is about the abundance of love. It is about the weakness of armies and battles and guns and...” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Such is the power of a mother’s love. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She loved the aromas of the dirt, the grass, the flowers; the rain. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Even though I was upset about my placement earlier today, and I love all of this..." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I love your big mouth and your jumpy body. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted her easy way of making people love her. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I love you, Grandma Caye,” I said, resting my forehead against her cheek. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of love that makes people jealous—and makes them cringe. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I suddenly wonder if Dray really loves Donna. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like someone is loving me back for the first time in my life. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

This time, the song was believed and the chief’s son, a kind young man, fell in love with the girl. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But I've always loved Amber a little more than the others. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing about it was coming from a place of love. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It will do her in. You know how she loves that boy.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it was from an old student intern, some short girl from Montana, but it became mine and I loved it. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He has always loved to sing, and so he joins Helmuth in a clear voice. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since her engagement with Van had fallen apart, she had felt too numb to love anyone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And after that in whispers comes the news that the two people I love most in the world are gone forever. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She reached the conclusion that the son for whom she would have given her life was simply a man incapable of love. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was at moments like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Once there was a rabbit who danced in a garden in springtime with the daughter of the woman who had loved him at the beginning of his journey. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

On the field he was a demon, with a streak of nastiness that every coach loved to see in a football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at his eyes that seemed near to tears, and she felt the longing and the itching burn in her chest that is the beginning of love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maniac loved the colors of the East End, the people colors. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his drifting soul was anchored in the love of God; in the rock that endured forever. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Zola says, “Angels used to fight, you know. They weren’t always sweet and loving and peaceful.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But I know she loves the Mets, and their team colors are navy and orange. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The family grew and prospered and argued and failed and loved and laughed. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My father, in the few photographs we have of him, has warm eyes that look like he knew how to love me and see me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As they sit side by side, Lourdes can feel her son’s love. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had done well by their children, dreamed of having grandchildren, prayed seven times a day, loved needlework and flowers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the only way I could love him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had never loved her so much as he did then. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z