#adoration

This is Tez Jones,” I said. “He’s a police detective from Tampa.” “Oh, my,” said Martha, blinking up at him. “Is something wrong?” “Nope,” said Tez, grinning at her and offering a saucy wink. “I’m just the boyfriend.” “Well, then.” She sized him up, and nodded.“It’s about time Elizabeth found someone who deserved her.” “I worship at her dainty feet. ↗

— Michele Bardsley

#funny #funny

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in relics -- guitar picks, set lists, the sweaty napkin applied to His brow. You set up shrines in your room. It's not just about the music. It's about who you are when you listen to the music and who you wish to be and the way a particular song can bridge that gap, can make you feel the abrupt thrill of absolute faith. ↗

— Steve Almond

#music #music-obsession #faith

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#infatuation #love #love

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love

Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#beauty #love #well-said #beauty

I went out to eat on a restaurant’s opening night. It was packed! I guess people heard I’d be dining there and came to adore me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#delusional #funny #funny

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#love

We all romanticize the people we adore. ↗

— John Green

#love #romance #love

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze, and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#adoration #love #lovers #richelle #richelle-goodrich

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity... ↗

— John Geddes

#deify #love #women #worship #love