#des

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love-yourself #self-esteem #self-image #love

A window within the soul to see Light and Magick I send with thee Be strong, be brave, make the right choice Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice Know that I am watching from above And that always, always, the answer is love! ↗

— P.C. Cast

#nyx #love

It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#hungry #kiss #love #memory #someone

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves ↗

— C.G. Jung

#indolence #object-of-desire #love

Love is alcohol. ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#beach-blondes #drinking #katherine-applegate #love #summer

The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love. ↗

— Cassia Leo

#self-destruction #love

You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#hate #jamie-weise #love #love-hate-relationship #mess

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#indescretion #joy #love #the-three-musketeers #love

Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face. ↗

— F. Sionil José

#love #love

Kiss me. My lips are on fire. You, my friend, are the object of my secret desire. ↗

— Lisa Canfield

#love #love