#bon

It means 'Shadowhunters: looking better in black than the widows of our enemies since 1234 ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace #enemy

It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #isabelle-lightwood #jace #mortal-instruments

don't ride for the ribbon, but ride for your own joy to life. ↗

— Gajoch

#life #ribbon #ride #life

You can see where it was, years ago. Like an old woman who was once beautiful, but time has taken her beauty away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #raphael #beauty

Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada). ↗

— Erin Moure

#capitalism #feltheart #friends #heartfelt #lana-turner

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway ↗

— Alice Sebold

#love

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#james-bond #loneliness #solitude #the-spy-who-loved-me #love

<spoiler>Azrael... In a flash, they disappeared. The path, the gate, the demon, and the Silver Blood. Kingsley was gone. Trapped in Hell for eternity. Mimi collapsed to the ground, as if her heart had imploded in her chest.</spoiler> ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#force #kingsley #love #mimi #love

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),... ↗

— Stephen King

#christmas #sarcasm #love

And loving a new person might even eventually dull the pain of having lost the people you have loved before, even if it didn't happen as quickly as you wanted it to. (p 99) ↗

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

#love #once-upon-a-river #love