What can you say about love in only 100 characters? Quite a lot, it turns out.
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Passionate
The sheet mistook her hip for a breakwater. Linen splashed and lace foamed. I stretched & kissed her #100CharactersOnLove
— James Stafford (@jamesostafford) October 25, 2013
She bounded down the stairs and I discovered her smile could rip a man in half, then mend him again. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— Jarad Dewing (@JaradDewing) October 24, 2013
If for a moment we slipped our own skins and saw the truth and beauty of the world, it was worth it #100CharactersOnLove
— Kim Hernandez (@wiredifferent) October 25, 2013
Fact of the universe: there is more life in the dark of your eyes than we know of in all the stars. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
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Love is unlocking. My front door’s open and you can come all the way upstairs. #100CharactersOnLove @goodmenproject
— Kate Bartolotta (@kate_bartolotta) October 25, 2013
Twelve hours away from you and I suffer delirium tremens, shaky in my soul. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— Jarad Dewing (@JaradDewing) October 26, 2013
That time you purposely spilled wine on yourself at a party because you saw that I’d spilled on my shirt? So hot. #100CharactersOnLove
— Tom B. (@BuildaLibrary) October 29, 2013
You’re in my big brown sweater and I’m in your penny eyes, drowning momentarily in soft copper waves. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— Jarad Dewing (@JaradDewing) October 29, 2013
A glance-all knowing, playful, sensual and familiar. It’s Palpable this thing between us. Forever ours. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— Alan Bishop (@the365effect) October 29, 2013
Romantic
Warm air, silent conversation. I understand your breath, no need for words. You look at me! I exist. #100CharactersOnLove
— Fernandez Guillermo (@deln0gal) October 24, 2013
The irritating way in which every time you speak, I want to say, “tell me more” but I don’t. #100CharactersOnLove
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) October 25, 2013
Acres and aces and aches and achoos, from acrimony to ahas and all of the future, all in your smile. #100charactersonlove
— Chris Johnson (@Eenfidel) October 25, 2013
Don’t know what your voice sounds like to you, but it’s the sound of perfection to my ears. #100charactersonlove
— Jeff Bogle (@OWTK) October 25, 2013
You know the moment when you first feel the earth’s rotation underneath your feet? It’s like that. #100CharactersOnLove
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) October 25, 2013
You never let the remote touch me when we watch tv, even though you think it’s weird I hate that. #100CharactersOnLove @iproposethis
— Eva Woods (@edotwoods) October 25, 2013
I walked out of my NYC apt. Got on a bike, a subway, a train, 2 planes, a bus—then into your arms. #100CharactersOnLove
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I thought I knew happiness. I thought I knew contentment. I never knew that a piece of me was missing, until I met you #100CharactersOnLove
— Aaron Anderson, M.S. (@MarriageDr) October 25, 2013
The first dance. Husband and wife. You waltz onto my foot. Flush scarlet in a giggling room. #100CharactersOnLove
— Lady Chatterley (@MsChatterley) October 25, 2013
Staying awake all night helping me pack. With me at the train station 6am. Sitting with arms clasped, tears on cheeks. #100CharactersOnLove
— HeatherN (@hrn212) October 25, 2013
Knowing it would end. Knowing when it would end. Knowing it was worth it, anyway. #100CharactersOnLove
— HeatherN (@hrn212) October 25, 2013
Knowing I don’t need to say a word. You already know. You know me in every sense of knowing. #100CharactersOnLove
— Jamie Utt (@utt_jamie) October 25, 2013
O’ would I suffer the burns, if I could set my wings on fire and rocket through time and space to you. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— Kevin Macku (@kmacku) October 25, 2013
When we lived continents apart, I ordered you pizzas over the phone. Because roses can’t comfort you at 1 am. #100CharactersOnLove
— Tom B. (@BuildaLibrary) October 29, 2013
Enduring
The trees are bare, December’s nearby; I’ll keep gifting the tale of the uncle my babies never met. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
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I love you, she says. You’re three, what’s love to you ? It’s an Apple pie, because you’re a nice dad. #100CharactersOnLove
— gregory jaquet (@gregoryjaquet) October 24, 2013
Back to you after swimming upstream against strong currents and rapids. My love is a salmon #100charactersonlove @GoodMenProject
— gregory jaquet (@gregoryjaquet) October 24, 2013
Driving all the way to the mall, which I mostly hate, because you need new underwear. Only for you. #100CharactersOnLove
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) October 25, 2013
Sitting silently for hours. No need to talk. No need for anything but to exist quietly together. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject.
— Allan Mott (@HouseofGlib) October 25, 2013
Me “You’ve a time out.”Her “Don’t want a time out! Let me out I command you!” “Good use of the word sweetie,” #100CharactersOnLove
— Alexander Yarde (@thatalexyarde) October 25, 2013
“You moved to Alabama? By choice? WHY?” And I point across the room and say, “Him.” #100CharactersOnLove
— gender_rebel (@gender_rebel) October 25, 2013
I’m burning our love at both ends; sometimes I’m a handful. You take me as I am, a work in progress. #100CharactersOnLove
— Zach Rosenberg (@zjrosenberg) October 25, 2013
You, Me and Us = Family; young grow old, laughter, passion & tenderness, delicious, always & forever #100CharactersOnLove
— Tsach Gilboa (@tsachgilboa) October 25, 2013
I swore I didn’t want babies. And then I saw you, and you looked at me, and suddenly we were three. #100CharactersOnLove
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) October 25, 2013
“Hey,” he realizes, holding her all tiny and new, “this is what arms are for.” #100CharactersOnLove
— Allan Mott (@HouseofGlib) October 25, 2013
The girls don’t sleep for me the way they do for you…you are my baby whisperer and I adore you. @DennisDehoyos #100CharactersOnLove
— Kathryn DeHoyos (@EvieEsMama) October 25, 2013
I don’t have a word for that space in between. It sounds like harbor. Like the shore. Like a place to catch my breath. #100CharactersOnLove
— Kate Bartolotta (@kate_bartolotta) October 25, 2013
Maybe love is as the old poet said: friendship set on fire. Holding hands to find our way in the dark #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— Kate Bartolotta (@kate_bartolotta) October 25, 2013
You let me climb, as high as I was able.The bend in your arm held me, and then you let me rest. #mytree #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— Marcela Widrig (@BodiesThatWork) October 25, 2013
Love is presence. Without it the heart is left empty, longing for connection and understanding. Sad. #100CharactersOnLove
— Danny (@dannyscorner) October 29, 2013
It wasn’t about the things I thought I always wanted- it was everything I didn’t know was missing. #100CharactersOnLove
— Audrey Bellis (@audreybellis) October 29, 2013
Because, love honour and cherish is always better than; love honour and obey. #100CharactersOnLove
— @peadaromeallain (@peadaromeallain) October 29, 2013
You kiss me three times before you leave for work. One=good luck. One =for the road. One=I love you. #100CharactersOnLove @GoodMenProject
— StuckAtHomeMom (@stuck_mom) October 25, 2013
Funny
I irrationally hate a lot of things. But I only ever hate you for really good reasons. #100CharactersOnLove @iproposethis
— Eva Woods (@edotwoods) October 25, 2013
One time I got so drunk on your words that I burned two grilled cheese sandwiches in a row. #100CharactersOnLove
— joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) October 25, 2013
I think about you when we’re not together. I need you badly. Street Fighter II Championship Edition. #100CharactersOnLove
— Zach Rosenberg (@zjrosenberg) October 25, 2013
I carried a bottle of your pee while you were in the hospital. #100CharactersOnLove (Past events are no promise of future results.)
— Eva Woods (@edotwoods) October 25, 2013
You’re nose is wet. You smell like garbage and urine. You bite. Your tail wags when you see me. #100CharactersOnLove
— Hoy (@a_hoyhoy) October 25, 2013
You pretended not to mind when you were my first tattoo customer and I misspelled all of those words. #100CharactersOnLove
— Allan Mott (@HouseofGlib) October 25, 2013
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y Z. Don’t worry, I’ll never forget about U and I #100charactersonlove @iproposethis
— John Dwyer (@JohnCDwyer) October 29, 2013
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Photo: Flickr/Jason Brennan
Each love is unique
Not a sliding scale from not-love to love
It’s love
When I offer the blanket, you refuse, and then complain that I hogged it? I hold no grudge with you.
Can i suggest an illustrated coffee table book from this brilliant, touching, hairs-on-neck, wow kind of read. Let’s do this again once a month?, then collect the best of in a year…..love it!
Lori Ann I am totally down with both those ideas-Wow, who would have thought so much could be said in 100 words? Great concept!! Beautiful, individual, heartfelt!
Read, Share, Discuss. Compose your own and look into your lovers eyes while you share it with them. It’s not magic…it’s LOVE.
So many wonderful and beautiful things expressed above. What a fantastic idea. Kudo’s Editors.