Remind Yourself About The Experience of Love With These eBooks

EBooks that talk about love teach readers to be understanding, loving, and forgiving. They can influence the reader's thoughts and help them solve their problems in a relationship. Here are some of the eBooks that tell vibrant and memorable love stories.

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

Originally published June 30, 1936, this book is about a character known as Scarlett O’Hara. She is in a complicated situation during the Civil War. All her family’s property is destroyed and reduced to tatters. However, Scarlett does not give up; she instead decides to use her wits to protect her family and land. Luckily, she is offered a way out by Rhett Butler. The option, however, comes with a cost. She ends up losing her heart but it’s for a good cause since her family has managed to remain peaceful and happy after all.

Me Before You - Jojo Moyes

In this eBook, an ordinary girl falls in love with her employer. This is the beginning of her nightmares since her family rejects her. Her spouse, Will Traynor, is wheelchair-bound, making people judge her even more.

The Princess Bride William Goldman

The Princess Bride follows a story about an immigrant and his son, who has pneumonia. The father decides to read his son a story about pain, Hate, True love, and Miracles to give him hope of recovering. The little boy doesn't comprehend what his father is telling him but remains hopeful that a miracle will happen.

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Long Love Quotes for Him

Here are some powerful love quotes to share with the special man in your life.

“Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi’s life. So you might say that we are encouraged to love.” – Star Wars: Episode II –Attack of the Clones

“I don’t need a lot of things I can get by with nothing Of all the blessings life can bring I’ve always needed something But I’ve got all I want When it comes to loving you You’re my only reason You’re my only truth.” – Leann Rimes, “I Need You” lyrics

“Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” – Gilbert Parker

“If I could reach up and hold a star for everytime you’ve made me smile, the entire sky would be in the palm of my hand.”- Unknown

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne

“Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.” – Walter Winchell

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” – Max Muller

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I love my eyes when you look into them. I love my name when you say it. I love my heart when you touch it. I love my life when you are in it.”- Unknown

“When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.” – Robert Fulghum

“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have been only five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.” – The Princess Bride

“I always dreamt of meeting a man like you. I’m so glad that dreams do come true.”- Unknown

“The lord has given me a wonderful gift in the form of you, my hubby. I thank him every single day for this invaluable gift in my life.” – Unknown

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Best cities to spend NYE with your partner

As the year is coming to a close and new year’s eve is coming up, it’s time to make plans on how to celebrate the last day of the year. If you’d like to surprise your partner with a long trip or looking for some exciting ideas, we have a few cities perfect for the occasion.

London - As the capital of England, you can expect a huge extravaganza in the city of London. They put on a huge firework display around the London eye area and loads of people flock to see the beautiful colors lit up in the sky. If you love crowds and fireworks, you and your partner can countdown with the rest of the city into the new year.

Edinburgh - Edinburgh knows how to throw the best NYE party - and you and your partner can be in on the celebrations. There are plenty of concerts, torchlight processions, fireworks, and street parties to kickstart the new year.

Barcelona - Barcelona isn’t just a summer city, it livens up especially in the winter months with a fabulous celebration. The city lights up for NYE; plenty of clubs are open to dance the night away, there are many firework displays and restaurants to enjoy. Barcelona is a beautiful city and worth the exploration.

New York - Probably the most obvious and dream-worthy new year’s eve choice, New York is the perfect romantic location. The snow, the shops, the lights; everything screams happy new year! You and your partner can go to a Broadway show, celebrate dancing the night away and watch the ball drop at midnight. It’ll be a celebration like no other.

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The Vital Signs That Show Whether It’s Just A Crush Or The Real Deal

If you’ve got a mad crush on someone, it’s easy to get swallowed up by your feelings - but doesn’t love feel just the same way? Luckily there are some signs which can help you differentiate between infatuation and the real deal. Check out these three tell-tale signs which show whether you’re in love, or just crushing on someone.

Putting the person on a pedestal

While it’s common to believe that your loved one is very special, it’s not normal to believe that they’re perfect in every way. Love is about accepting them for all their flaws, not refusing to see the human side to their personality. With infatuation, it’s much more common to see perfection in everything they do and say, putting the individual on a pedestal which quite simply isn’t realistic.

Is all about physical attraction

Physical attraction is an important part of being in love, after all, it’s the difference between friendship and a romantic relationship! But love is also about having a deeper bond at an emotional level, not just sexual chemistry between you. By contrast, when you’ve got a crush on someone, it’s often about the physical spark and how the way they look makes you feel. You don’t have to know someone or have any kind of real intimacy to be overwhelmed by feelings of infatuation.

Can quickly disappear during separation

Long-term relationships are hard to maintain, and if your loved one has to go away for long periods, it adds a real strain. However, when you’re in love the saying “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is certainly true and you’ll be counting the days until they return. With infatuation, once the individual moves away or is gone for a prolonged time - such as serving in the Forces - it’s much easier to move on to someone else.

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The Vital Signs That Show Whether It’s Just A Crush Or The Real Deal

If you’ve got a mad crush on someone, it’s easy to get swallowed up by your feelings - but doesn’t love feel just the same way? Luckily there are some signs which can help you differentiate between infatuation and the real deal. Check out these three tell-tale signs which show whether you’re in love, or just crushing on someone.

Putting the person on a pedestal

While it’s common to believe that your loved one is very special, it’s not normal to believe that they’re perfect in every way. Love is about accepting them for all their flaws, not refusing to see the human side to their personality. With infatuation, it’s much more common to see perfection in everything they do and say, putting the individual on a pedestal which quite simply isn’t realistic.

Is all about physical attraction

Physical attraction is an important part of being in love, after all, it’s the difference between friendship and a romantic relationship! But love is also about having a deeper bond at an emotional level, not just sexual chemistry between you. By contrast, when you’ve got a crush on someone, it’s often about the physical spark and how the way they look makes you feel. You don’t have to know someone or have any kind of real intimacy to be overwhelmed by feelings of infatuation.

Can quickly disappear during separation

Long-term relationships are hard to maintain, and if your loved one has to go away for long periods, it adds a real strain. However, when you’re in love the saying “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is certainly true and you’ll be counting the days until they return. With infatuation, once the individual moves away or is gone for a prolonged time - such as serving in the Forces - it’s much easier to move on to someone else.

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Enchanting Romances About Young Love

We all remember our first kiss and our first love, and nothing else can quite replicate the magic of those moments. These books all capture what makes that experience so special, as well as being fantastic reads for any reader!

Everything Leads To You by Nina Lacour

A truly glamorous and beguiling book, with a clever metanarrative and commentary on the idealized nature of fictional relationships, where this book really wins readers over is with its central character Emi.

The Summer Of Jordi Perez (And The Best Burger In Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

The Summer Of Jordi Perez is a novel that really effectively captures what it’s like to be young and in love in the digital age, especially the dichotomy between private and public lives that can become so muddled. As well as providing an inspirational narrative of body positivity and self-confidence.

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

Whether or not you’ve seen the fantastic Netflix adaptation(Although you really should have by now!) this riveting book is definitely worth checking out. A moving and eloquent expression of the heightened emotions that come with young love.

Emergency Contact by Mary K Choi

A book that captures the unique, and potentially liberating, way in which relationships can develop online and via text. It also contains a truly charming set of lead characters, whose awkwardness and genuine natures is at once relatable and endearing.

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The rocky road of love: Three famously doomed romances

The course of true love doesn’t always run smooth and, sometimes that’s what makes it all the more intriguing. History and literature are littered with tales of doomed romance. There are some legendary couples whose love burned so intensely, they could not allow the external forces which kept them apart to do so for much longer. Here are some the most famous examples of those intense, yet ultimately doomed, romances.

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare actually coined the phrase ‘star-crossed lovers’ to describe this couple. They had to fight for their love right from the off as they came from two feuding families – the Montagues and Capulets. However, they didn’t let this stop them and were determined to be together. But not for long as Juliet’s faked death, led to Romeo’s actual death and his lover soon followed him in shaking off the mortal coil.

Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan

The Great Gatsby was one of the greatest novels of the 20th century and at its heart was the romance between Gatsby and Daisy which seemed doomed even before it begun. Gatsby had done everything he could since their first encounter to elevate himself to a status he thought Daisy would deem worth. But a series of factors, not least Daisy’s jealous and suspicious husband Tom, conspired against them to prevent them from being together.

Antony and Cleopatra

A legendary love story with a dramatic and tragic end. The Roman Antony falls in love with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and they form a formidable alliance. However, Antony’s enemies trick him into believing Cleopatra has died while he is at war. Not able to bear the news, he kills himself with his sword. Cleopatra is devastated to hear of her lover’s death and famously kills herself with the bite of an asp.

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Are women really better at romance writing?

Despite gender equality making great strides in many walks of life, but when it comes to the readership of romance novels, parity is still a long way off. An overwhelming amount of romance novels are read by woman, with recent surveys putting the figure around the 90% mark. Of course, you’ll need to figure in the fact that many men may read romance novels, but not be prepared to admit it.

However, whatever about the disparity in the gender of readers, the make-up of romance writers is slightly more balanced.

Traditionally, the heavy hitters in the romance genre were Danielle Steele and Barbara Cartland and it was generally accepted that women were more adept at penning romance. Much of this is based on the fact they are able to represent the female point of view better.

However many romance novels require the story to be told from two points of view – traditionally a male and female one. The criticism is that men can’t adequately tell a story from a female point of view and they lack the nuance that a female writer might possess. Female writers are said to focus more on detail and subtlety while male writers favor action and large, sweeping dramatic scenes.

But it is worth noting that many male romance writers have operated under female pseudonyms for many years now and the Nicholas Sparks has managed to enjoy huge success in the genre.

Online tests to determine whether a writer is male or female are generally unreliable and the logical conclusion is that good writing is good writing, no matter the gender.

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Best romance movies that came from books

There are so many romance books out there that it’s no surprise that so many of them are adapted into movies. Here is our list of some of the best romance movies that started out life as books.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

Based on Stephen Chbosky’s novel, the film follows a naïve and endearing outsider, Charlie. Charlie is just 15 years old, dealing with the suicide of his best friend and is the quintessential wallflower. That is until he meets Patrick and Sam, step brother and sister, who help him to adjust to life in high school. There are lots of dark secrets and emotional twists and turns in this romantic coming-of-age book including abuse and a secret gay relationship.

A Walk to Remember (2002)

When a prank at school goes wrong, Landon Carter, is held responsible for the prank and the student that has been put in the hospital. He Is forced to join in community service activities after-school, which includes taking on the lead in the next school play. Jamie Sullivan is the reverend’s daughter, who takes part in all the same activities without needing to be forced to. As the two spend more time together they fall in love, but their relationship is tested when a heart-breaking secret is revealed.

Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)

Nominated for an Oscar, this movie brought the Thomas Hardy classic to life. Bathsheba Everdene is a beautiful but headstrong woman. When her uncle dies and leaves her his farm, she decides to manage it herself. Whilst taking on managing the farm she ends up being pursued by three men, who all have very different personalities, backgrounds and things to offer the fiercely independent woman.

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Ways to Make Your Relationship Last

There’s nothing quite like entering a new relationship; the jittery feeling when you’re around each other, the discovery, the sheer joy! But often times, those feeling don’t last beyond the honeymoon phase. The reality is that relationships take work. Here are three ways to make sure your relationship lasts.

Compromise. It's a big one, and it's not only easy, but compromising is without a doubt one of the most important aspects to a long lasting relationship. Compromise doesn’t just mean settling on which movie to watch, it means ensuring that your life goals and priorities are aligned for the long term.

Communicate daily. "How was work, honey?" doesn't count. Talk to each other on the daily, let each other know how you're really feeling that day, be open and honest, and most importantly, be receptive to each other. This little bit of communication will go a very long way, hopefully for a very long time.

Keep it fresh. Many people end up stuck in a routine, with work life being so demanding it's easy to understand why. We don't have much time in the mornings before having to rush off to work, and by the time we get home in the evening we may be tired. That said, it's worth the extra effort to throw in a romantic gesture every now and again. Take your significant other out for a romantic dinner someplace new, or plan a surprise vacation, a bit of spontaneity will go a long way.

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