#ardor

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#classic #heathcliff #love #love

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#first-love #imagination

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. ↗

— William Goldman

#ardor #love #love

...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall be that person's lover. There would be a much likelier chance of his doing it if he were told not to love. If the marriage ceremony consisted in an oath and signed contract between the parties to cease loving from that day forward, in consideration of personal possession being given, and to avoid each other's society as much as possible in public, there would be more loving couples than there are now. Fancy the secret meetings between the perjuring husband and wife, the denials of having seen each other, the clambering in at bedroom windows, and the hiding in closets! There'd be little cooling then. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#ardor #fidelity #love #love

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#distinguishes #knowledge #love #quality #without