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an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love. ↗

— Nick Laird

#nick-laird #poem #poetry #the-last-saturday-in-ulster #time

النسيان خطًى يبلغ المرء فى نهايتها مشارف حبّ جديد ↗

— أحلام مستغانمي

#love #sadness #love

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love #madness #love

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being? ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#love #shadows #love

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#books #reading #age

No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you.” He leaned in. “It fucking kills me. Every night. I relive what I did to you every night.” His forehead rested against mine. “Until you,” he said softly, “I never felt truly helpless. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#apologies #love #michael #rape #sad

How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you--except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think? It's not boring to you? It's important? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#howard-roark #mallory #love

if you want to cry. cry in front of me. I should know - Cristian Grey ↗

— E.L. James

#fifty #grey #love #shades #love

Scarlett: I only know that I love you! Rhett: That's your misfortune. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#loss #love #sadness #love

How we all love extreme cases and apocalypses, fires, drownings, stranglings, and the rest of it. The bigger our mild, basically ethical, safe middle classes grow the more radical excitement is in demand. Mild or moderate truthfulness or accuracy seems to have no pull at all. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#extreme-cases #radical-excitement #love