#chi

Quincy and Jake seem to be content to spend an enormous amount of time along together, which I count as romantic, but might simply be because they don't have a child: the Blues versus the world. ↗

— Sally Koslow

#couple #love #love

That made her pause, almost made her want to laugh. She pushed her hair from her face. "God, we're fucked up, aren't we?" His tight features loosened a little. "Yeah, I've been trying to get over it most of my life. I guess I'd had myself talked into thinking I had." "Me, too. I'm sorry," she told him, her shoulders relaxing. "I didn't need to get so pissed off." He cracked a grin, "You did, though, didn't you? I kind of liked seeing you like that. All that fire. ↗

— Eve Berlin

#childhood-memories #love

It is so delightful to teach those one loves! ↗

— Andrew Lang

#delightful #fairy-tales #love #teach #teaching

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#childlessness #fable #fantasy-literature #literary-criticism #literature

If Children are God's Gift then adopted are God's child. ↗

— Revathi Sankaran

#adoption #children #god-s-love #love

I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#christianity #jesus #death

Love is not governed by numbers ↗

— Kalia Lewis

#love-child #reunited-lovers #texas #love

They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore. ↗

— Mother Jones

#children #dogs #poodles #home

I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#maya-delaney #thought-s-on-love #love

She's not a baby anymore, my love, said Tarik softly. That's what we have to accept, you and I. ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#love