#con

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. ↗

— Aaron Cohen

#eternal #happiness #light #love #quote

I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. ↗

— Erich Segal

#love

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content. ↗

— Lauren Conrad

#contented #friends #love #relationships #single

Neither one of them could turn off their feelings, even with so much time and distance between them. The more they were apart, and the more they weren't allowed to be together, the more they loved each other. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#love #relationships #soulmates #love

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#constancy #heathcliff #love #love

Charlee has my arm. She has my arm—my arm that’s rigid from pleasure, from her touch—in her little fingers. She holds my other one, too and she’s right there, that sweet candy perfume stripping the rest of the strength from my body, and it escapes in a soft, breathy sigh. ↗

— Rebecca Berto

#fiction #love-story #na #new-adult #romance

...every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#universal-love #love

Truthfully, from the moment in front of the Chagall, you had me Norah. Until that moment, I didn’t know moments like that existed between a man and a woman. I felt breathless, unhinged and lost, all in one split second because you deterred my future with just one look. You have no idea how completely floored I felt that a girl could so instantly take all my control and direction and all that I knew to be normal, and turn it completely and utterly upside down. ↗

— Angela Richardson

#love #romance #love

Her receding laughter sounded so comforting, so alluring to my senses that I could hardly control myself from reaching out to her and telling her what I felt there and then! ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#love #love

I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried. ↗

— Jenny Han

#love #truth #love