#bse

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings. ↗

— James L. Halperin

#observant #understanding #wise #love

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#observation #satire #love

I love making observations. That one is a classic example. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#observations #twitter #love

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #ibsen #moroseness #sombre-mood #unhappiness

If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#observation #observational-comedy #humor

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#observation #humor

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#obsession #love

He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd burn in hell forever for doing it. He hadn't done it, and wouldn't had made her his anyway, but you see why he'd have figured it did. Or maybe I saw it anyway, at the time. He was a maniac and a monster, but people don't love like that anymore. Or maybe it's only the maniacs and monsters who do. I don't know. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#obsession #love

Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion. ↗

— Paul Carvel

#obsession #passion #love

Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#crime-fiction #drama #e-l-james #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey