#eli

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#elinor #love

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#believe #faith #religion #truth #faith

Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#love

She said nothing for a moment, unsure what exactly to say. She loved him with every breath she took. She would do anything for him. How could she word her affections? Moisture assembled in her eyes, and, to her surprise, a tear trickled down her cheek. There were many things she’d like to say, but she didn’t know how. ↗

— Rachel M. Greenebaum

#angelica-graceace #char-wales #the-wales-boy #love

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#childhood-memory #happiness #loss #love #memory

I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lauren-oliver #lena #love #romance

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #faith

You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again. Only it doesn't last and soon you realize you can only get so close and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone than ever, because the illusion-the hope you'd held on to all those years-has been shattered. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#loneliness #love #love

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#disbelief #gabriel-garcía-márquez #love #love-conquers-all #of-love-and-other-demons

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love