Love Quotes Quote by Vita Sackville-West, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”

“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”

“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”

““You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our rules.”

“I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there’s a chance in hell you might want it back.”

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”