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I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #love

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love #sleep #love

The back is one of my favorite parts of a woman’s body. I love to trace and lick the shallow line of her spine, from the top and all the way down to the twin dimples at the base of her lower back. ↗

— Gina L. Maxwell

#gina-l-maxwell #seducing-cinderella #love

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#love #love

The earth has a mouth?” Buckley asked. A big round mouth but with no lips,” my father said. Jack,” my mother said, laughing, “stop it. Do you know I caught him outside growling at the snapdragons? ↗

— Alice Sebold

#love

From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc - Verses

#poetry #love

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#vitality #wisdom #youth #age

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. ↗

— John Lubbock

#nature #reward #love

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#love #lust #relationships #love

I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me. ↗

— Michelle McKinney Hammond

#relationship-with-god #singleness #love