#ak

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement ↗

— Lindsey Kelk

#love #relationships #love

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now ↗

— Alicia Keys

#lessinlearned #love #love

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#brett #count #fall-in-love #jake #love

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fake #false #illusion #impression #mask

The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure — and so often, people are unsure — is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee. ↗

— Adam Thirlwell

#love #persuasion #relationshops #love

I did not ask you out. But I would seriously think about not shooting you down if you asked me. Nicely." I had to keep my pride. He took both of my hands in his. "Brenna Blixen will you be my girlfriend, please." He held up one of my hands and kissed my knuckles smoothly. "Pretty please. With sugar on top. ↗

— Liz Reinhardt

#brenna #girlfriend #jake #love #love

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#love #love-hurts #love

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#literature #shakespeare #love

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had ne'er been broken-hearted ↗

— Robert Burns

#love #love

Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor