#deli

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. ↗

— Richard de Bury

#delightful #reading #love

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#death #deliberately #i #intent #morphine

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

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

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

A small piece of me still believed in hope. However minute or unattainable hope seemed, I wanted the childlike wonder. “I want you to love me. I need someone who needs me. But most of all, I know you understand me, and I crave that bond so much that when I’m with you, it’s all I feel. It consumes me. Fires me. Eats at my fine tuned control until there is nothing left of me, but the feel of you in my bones. ↗

— E.R. Pierce

#duality #e-r-pierce #empaths #er-pierce #love

It is so delightful to teach those one loves! ↗

— Andrew Lang

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

Something truly special never ceases to grow even more valuable with each passing time. If it would stand the test of time, then it's worth keeping though it may not look or feel the same when it was still brand new. ↗

— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

#commitment #fidelity #girlfriend #husband #love