Thursday Thirteen: 13 Terrible and Terrific Things About Love

So - love. There are many kinds of love and many shades to it. Sometimes you believe in it, sometimes you hate it. But it's an essential part of life.

Especially if you're a romance writer.

Here are 13 things someone said about love that resounded with me.

1."We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
- Unknown

2. "Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne

3. "Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
- Neil Gainman (The Sandman)

4. "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
- Anaïs Nin

5. "I know most girls, they get weak in their knees for what’s beautiful, you know, that’s all they see, that’s all they want. But I’m not like that. I don’t just see what’s beautiful. I fall for the other stuff. I love what’s not perfect. It’s just how I am."
- Wendy in Les Poupée Russes

6. "You must never let them know that you care or they will kill you."
- Charles Bukowski

7. "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
- Dr. Seuss

8. "There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is same. Only love."
- Johnny Depp





9. "You are the body hidden in the trunk
You are the habit I can't seem to kick
You are my secrets on the front page every week
You are the car I never should have bought
You are the dream I never should have caught
You are the cut that makes me hide my face
You are the party that makes me feel my age"
- Like A Friend by Pulp

10. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
- Charles M Schultz

11. "An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time."
- Trent Reznor




12. "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
- Marilyn Monroe

13. "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

And btw, I love that last Banksy painting so much.




Images by SarahWynne & Simon Booth