Sometimes the one who is running from the LifeDeathLife nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase one aspect of love and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

She did not believe he could have really gone because for her to leave the person you loved was impossible.

Almost all the time you tell yourself youre loving somebody when youre just using them. This only looks like love.

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. Why are you determined not to believe usBecause she loves you said Valentine.Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

There are many different types of kisses. Theres a passionate kiss of farewelllike the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-cant-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-belike with Superman and Lois Lane. Theres the first kissone that is gentle and hesitant warm and vulnerable. And then theres the kiss of possessionwhich was how Ren kissed me now. It went beyond passion beyond desire. His kiss was full of longing need and love like all those other kisses. But it was also filled with promises and pledges some of which seemed sweet and tender while others seemed dangerous and exciting. He was taking me over. Staking a claim. He seized me as boldly as the tiger captured his prey. There was no escape. And I didnt want to. I would have happily died in his clutches. I was his. And he made sure I knew it. My heart burst with a thousand beautiful blooms all tiger lilies. And I knew with a certainty more powerful than anything Id ever felt before that we belonged together.

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power either--a purely human one.

And yes Ill admit I am jealous. Im jealous of every minute you spend with him of every concerned expression you send his way of every tear shed of every glance every touch and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I cant.

I feeland I have reason to believethat we could come to mean something to each other.

Love is like a forest I think as I kill trees by squandering toilet paper while decorating my ex girlfriends front yard.

I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Dont be careful with me he said. Because I wont be careful with you.