#d

Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle. ↗

— Karen Tayleur

#middle #middle-child #special #love

The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth. ↗

— Ziad K Abdelnour

#judgement #age

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being? ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#love #shadows #love

I just told her I love her. There’s no going back. Nothing to do but own it. But there’s the crux of the matter—I want to own it. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#love

AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little, dear! on days like these. Let misty autumn be our part! The twilight of the year is sweet: Where shadow and the darkness meet Our love, a twilight of the heart Eludes a little time's deceit. Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream. Beyond the pearled horizons lie Winter and night: awaiting these We garner this poor hour of ease, Until love turn from us and die Beneath the drear November trees. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#fall #november #october #seasons #dreams

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#love #love-and-loss #love

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#books #reading #age

Do they still hurt?" she whispered in anguished surprise. "No," Jason said tautly. Shame washed over him in sickening waves as he waited helplessly for her inevitable reaction to the stark evidence of his humiliation. To his utter disbelief he felt her arms encircle him from behind and the touch of her lips on his back. "How brave you must have been to endure this," she whispered achingly, "how strong to survive it and go on living..." When she began kissing each scar, Jason rolled to his side and jerked her into his arms. "I love you," he whispered agonizedly, plunging his hands into her luxuriant hair and turning her face up to his. "I love you so much... ↗

— Judith McNaught Once and Always

#lovers #once-and-always #passion #romance #love

Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart ↗

— Daven Anderson

#heartbreak #lost-love #vampire #love

Hermione drew herself to her full height; her eyes were narrowed and her hair seemed to crackle with electricity. "No," she said, her voice quivering with anger, "but I will write to your mother. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #hermione-granger #anger