#del

Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#cordelia #vorkosigan #change

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own. ↗

— David Hewson

#fidelity #infidelity #sex #infidelity

And, then, was like the first time he saw her. Everything went dark. He forgot why he was there, again. He removed what had happened the night before. There was only her, again. But this time he knew exactly what he wanted. «The truth is you don't want that I come with you because you're afraid. Afraid to fall in love with me.» ↗

— Chiara Cilli

#love

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#love #love

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lauren-oliver #love

Thy love wakes thirst for Heaven in one and all: Leper, pimp, outcast, fool and criminal, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#the-flowers-of-evil #the-litanies-of-satan #love

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. ↗

— Esther Williams

#appeared #audience #being #conveyed #delicious

I love you once, I love you twice, I love you more than beans & rice. ↗

— Mike Delfino Desperate Housewives

#desperate-housewives #funeral-speech #goodbye #love #mike-delfino

...A madeleine moment - a sound, a scent can incant her presence... ↗

— John Geddes

#proustian-madeleine #love

«It was an honor to meet you, my Queen.» Galadir held out his hand. In front of that gesture, Morwen's watchful expression covered her desperation. I beg you, hold my hand. May me feel for the last time your skin on mine. Galadir begging her in his thoughts. Morwen stared at the boy's hand, stretched out to her. Don't do it, don't. «Even for me,» she said simply, tightening their fingers at those of Galadir. A powerful shock is transmitted to both at the exact moment when their hands met. It was a constant flashbacks. Their first meeting. Their first glance. The dance. The first kiss. The explosion of their love that occurred in the course that night. ↗

— Chiara Cilli

#love