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You Were The First Love I Hoped Would Be My Last

Read these achingly beautiful quotes on first love. 
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson
July 20, 2016
“We broke up but love doesn't go anywhere.”
— Ella Dawson, Romantic Gesturing
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Breaking Up, Lost Love
“He taught me how to love, but he didn’t teach me how to stop.”
— Anonymous
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
— William Cowper, Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“I miss those kisses and the way I used to sleep in your warm hug. I miss the way you made me eat breakfasts and I miss the way you made me laugh. I miss you.”
— Himmilicious
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.”
— Tegan and Sara Quin, Missing You
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
Tagged: Love, Protection
“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
— Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
Tagged: Love, separation
“Love is a shooting star that lands in your heart and lives forever.”
— Danielle Steel, Until The End Of Time
Tagged: Love, Forever
“Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.”
— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Touch
“I remember that feeling of skin. It's
strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers
still tingle with it.”
— Lucy Christopher, Stolen
Tagged: Love, Touch, Sex
“I say it's over. But how do I say goodbye? When you are the man that I love  And can't live without. ”
— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved
Tagged: Love, Goodbyes, The One
“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
“You keep making poetry
out of people who never stayed
as if all the pretty words
in the world can
cover up the heartache.”
— Genefe Navilon, via Tumblr
Tagged: Heartache, Heart Break, Pain, Love, poem, Poetry, My Favorites, Poetry From Loss, Poetic Words
“But now, more than three years after our first kiss and more than a year after our first time, I’m still not over the possibility of him, the possibility of us. And he has no idea.”
— Jordana Narin, No Labels, No Drama, Right?
Tagged: Love, Relationships, romance, Dating, Marriage, Heartbreak, Life, Advice, inspiration
“Unfortunately, years of schooling can’t teach you about recovering from heartbreak the way experience can.”
— Melissa Hill, Can Tylenol Help Heal a Broken Heart?
Tagged: Love, Relationships, romance, Dating, Marriage, Heartbreak, Life, Advice, inspiration
“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
— Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
— Maya Angelou, Soul Shattering Poetry
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Perfect Love, romance, Perfect Dating, Wedding Vows, Things To Text Her
“Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.”
— Rachel Vincent, Alpha
Tagged: Love, True Love, Only You
“It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”
— Lucy Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
Tagged: Love, Love After Death, Missing You, Grief, Losing Your Husband, Death
“For you, a thousand times over’”
— Khaled Hosseini, By Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner Paperback
Tagged: It Was All For You, Love, All For You, Ways To Say I Love You, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: one perfect sentence, Love, Youth, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”
— Jojo Moyes,
Tagged: Love, Understanding, Finding Love
“They say in this case
the first love
will be the last love
so what if
the boy that got away
thinks of you as
the girl that got away
and what if
fate pulls this trick
on you too?”
— Annelies, "Long Time", Excerpt from the series Morning Wild Boy Hair
Tagged: Poetry, Love, True Love Waits, Writers, Poets, Heartbreak, Distance
“your name is
scrawled on restaurant napkins
and leather bus seats
in the inside of library books
and carved into trees
maybe one day you’ll see
and know I was there
maybe one day you’ll see
and fall back in love with me”
— Leigh, Poetry, Day 235
Tagged: Love, Lovers, Poetry, Internet Poetry
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)”
— E. E Cummings, 100 Selected Poems
Tagged: Love, Poetry, Romantic Poetry
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
— Nizar Qabbani, In The Summer
Tagged: Love, Poetry, poem, Poets, romance, Lust For Life
“As Romeo is dying Juliet says
‘I am willing to die to remain by your side’
and love was never a static place of rest
but the last second of euphoria
while throwing yourself out from a 20 store window
to be able to say
‘I flew before I hit the ground’,
and it was glorious.

Don’t be sorry.
The fall was beautiful, dear.
The crash was beautiful.”
— Charlotte Erickson, The Fall
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Romeo and Juliet, romance