Romance Quote by Charles Dickens — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

“But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.”

“[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.”

“The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.”

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

“Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there--this is a good habit, regardless...make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.”

“. . . if you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.”

“I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.”

“Looking at him, she saw her future and felt all the ragged tears in her heart heal themselves. "I fit," she whispered in marvel, stepping into him. "I fit with you.”

“I'm done waiting. Done doing things the easy way and letting things happen as they will.”

“He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the curls with cheap, native combs. The sight of them gave him hope.”