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20 Quotes You Will Relate To If Your Love Language Is Quality Time

Because time spent with loved ones is never time wasted. 
Heidi Priebe
June 30, 2016
“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Tagged: Love, Regret, Breakups, Change, Nostalgia
“Life would have seemed an exquisite thing to me if only I had been free to spend it, hour after hour, with her, to go with her to the stream, to the cow, to the train, to be always at her side, to feel that I was known to her, had my place in her thoughts.”
— Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove
Tagged: Pastoral, Love, Sublime Beauty
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.”
— Ally Condie, Matched
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Relationships, Growing Apart, Memories
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
— Tom Robbins, The Perfect Love
Tagged: Philosophy, Love
“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
— Paulo Coelho, Maktub
Tagged: Love, Inspirational, Paulo Coelho, Maktub, Books
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
Tagged: Love, Imagination, Idealism, Relationships, Home
“Hey, wait.
Well, love after all is a habit like any other.
A habit, maybe. Like any other, no.”
— Renata Adler, Pitch Dark
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Loving Someone, Habit
“I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘don’t leave me here alone’.”
— Neil Gaiman, Dark Sonnet
Tagged: Love, Trust, Abandonment, Poetry
“We all want someone to build a fort with. We want somebody to swap crayons with and play hide-and-seek with and live out imaginary stories with. We start out getting that from our family. Then we get it from our friends. And then, for whatever reasons, we get it in our heads that we need to get that feeling- that intimacy- from a single someone else. We call if growing up. But really, when you take sex out of it, what we want is a companion. And we make that so damn hard to find.”
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet
Tagged: Friendship, Love, Intimacy
“The ‘I miss you’s,’ ‘I love you’s,’ and ‘I want to be with you’s’ will never amount to actually being with you physically.”
— Raghib Clitso
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“Whoever thought up the phrase ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’ was an idiot. Absence makes a bitch go crazy.”
— Toni Aleo, Taking Shots
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Hard Work, Effort
“While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe
Tagged: Love, heart, Missing
“Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.”
— Andy Stanley, Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions
Tagged: Quality Time, Family, Love, Building Relationships, Relationships
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
— A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
Tagged: Quality Time, Love, Together
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Home, Love, Family, Friends, Relationships, Quality Time
“I want to do everything on earth with you. I want to float down rivers, traverse deserts, scale mountains and submerge ourselves into the sea. I want to take on a lifetime worth of challenges alongside you but most of all, I want to come home to you.”
— Heidi Priebe, I Want To Do Everything On Earth With You
Tagged: Quality Time, Love, travel, Adventure
“You’re the person I want to dive headfirst into life with. When I go out on the weekends, it is you I want shutting down the club with me. When I plan an adventure it is you I want holding the map. When I speculate about the future, I want to see you in every outlandish fantasy I plan for myself. ”
— Heidi Priebe, I Flat-Out Refuse To Marry Anyone Unless These Are Our Vows
Tagged: Quality Time, Love, Adventure, Life
“Somebody loves you if they don’t mind the quiet. They don’t mind running errands with you or cleaning your apartment while blasting some annoying music. There’s no pressure, no need to fill the silences. It’s a damn dream when you find someone you can do nothing with. Whether you’re skydiving together or sitting at home and doing different things, it’s always comfortable. That is fucking love.”
— Ryan O'Connell, How To Tell If Somebody Loves You
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Quality Time, Doing Nothing Together
“You’re the one I want beside me for every little thing—from Tuesday nights after work to Saturday mornings curled up on the couch, from trips to the corner store to vacations across the world, from nights when I startle from bad dreams to afternoons when I come home from a run, glistening with sweat.

I want you there for everything.”
— Marisa Donnelly, You’re The One I Want Beside Me For Every Little Adventure
Tagged: Love, Quality Time