#be

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#madame-bovary #love

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#love #rivals #love

This Path to God Made me such an old sweet beggar. I was starving until one night My love tricked God Himself To fall into my bowl. Now Hafiz is infintely rich, But all I ever want to do Is keep emptying out My emerald-filled Pockets Upon This tear-stained World. ↗

— حافظ

#love

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love. ↗

— Richard Yates

#insanity #love

White lies are in chapter two of the bestfriend handbook. They are to be used sparingly and only under extreme circumstances. I'm pretty sure finding out your boyfriend of more than a year is a total jerk qualifies. ↗

— Heather Hepler

#love #love

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#correct #day #every #every day #fat

Love is alcohol. ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#beach-blondes #drinking #katherine-applegate #love #summer

And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#leaving #memories #love

As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#love

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#kiss #liberty #love #sugar-daddy #love