#ai

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #loss #love #memory #plain-truth

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me. ↗

— E.L. James

#sadism #love

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. ↗

— Jonathan Tropper

#love #pain #scars #true #true-love

Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#hair #love #tenderness #tucker #love

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #clockwork-angel #clockwork-prince #jem-carstairs #love

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#losing-someone #love #pain #love

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#pain #love

I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave." - Jaime Lannister ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#love #romance #love

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#love #trainspotting #love

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time. ↗

— Emma Watson

#another #another time #back #book #books