#are

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#care #serving #life

And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #clary #jace #love #mortal-instruments

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#love #tolstoy #love

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ↗

— George Eliot

#joy #love #sacrifice #love

Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?” “No.” “But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#pierce #rachel-s-love-life #life

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting #love

Love is a kind of warfare. ↗

— Ovid

#love #love is #warfare

I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#lauren #lauren-s-parents #imagination

Yes, I-- I think I love her. Is that nuts? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love

If I were a superhero, I’d be Honesty Man. I’d be so transparent I’d be invisible.
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— Jarod Kintz

#honesty #humor #invisible #super-hero #transparent