#boo

You Have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust." Matthew 5:43-45 ↗

— Anonymous

#book #enemies #holy #jesus #love

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings about books--I’m talking about my friends and myself--went beyond love. It was as if we didn’t know where we ended and books began. Books were our weather, our environment, our clothing. We didn’t simply read books; we became them. We took them into ourselves and made them into our histories. While it would be easy to say that we escaped into books, it might be truer to say that books escaped into us. Books were to us what drugs were to young men in the sixties. They showed us what was possible. We had been living with whatever was close at hand, whatever was given, and books took us great distances. We had known only domestic emotions and they showed us what happens to emotions when they are homeless. Books gave us balance--the young are so unbalanced that anything can make them fall. Books steadied us; it was as if we carried a heavy bag of them in each hand and they kept us level. They gave us gravity. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#literature #love

Write for the love of storytelling, not the acclaim. ↗

— Airambooksie

#quotes-about-writing #quotes-for-writers #love

All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#gary-shteyngart #humor #love #russian-debutante-s-handbook #socioeconomics

«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.» ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#google #internet #novel #wikipedia #love

Having a man this good looking begging me for sex was the best therapy I could ask for. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#ego-boost #love

This spicy historical will steal your breath, and capture your heart. -Susan Sigler, Love Romance Passion ↗

— Terry Spear

#love-romance-passion #susan #love

Hijinxs and crazy shenanigans that’ll leave you chuckling to the bewilderment of those around you - Love Romance Passion ↗

— Libby Malin

#love-romance-pasison #love

Such things have little to do with brevity of meeting. And in that lies our hope: for the Dark understands nothing of love. ↗

— Allison Croggon

#cadvan #love #the-naming #love

Aber ist es nicht außerordentlich merkwürdig, wie einem der Zufall Bücher in die Hände spielt, die etwas mit der eigenen Situation oder Lebensphase zu tun haben? ↗

— Doris Lessing

#love