#ear

I can't leave you," he says hoarsely. "I can't leave you either," I say, shaking my head. "I can't." "Then don't," he says, and grabs me behind the neck and kisses me again, and the world is tilting, and everything goes black. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#heartbreak #love #tucker-avery #love

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#character-building #growing-up #heartbreak #learning-by-doing #life

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over. ↗

— Pete Wentz

#heartache #love #sadness #tears #love

To truly learn from someone or something, one must first learn to love them. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#love #love

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#love #tenderness #love

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? ↗

— Norton Juster

#bathtub #fantasy #fiction #hearing #kids

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare? ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#paris #revolution #shakespeare #stage #theater

I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fearless #taylor-swift #fearless

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#fearless

I looked over at him. "Is that a proposal?" There was total silence for a couple beats. "I'm not sure. It just popped out." "Let me know when you're sure." "Would you say yes?" Morelli asked. "I'm not sure. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#fearless