#eli

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#isolation #loneliness #personality #solitude #love

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew it had begun. ↗

— Amanda Grange

#love

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#feelings #habit #love #show #truth

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#die #disease #lie #love #love

She smiled thoughtfully. “I think Jackson was like a lost puppy. He needed purpose, someone to believe in him and love him despite his bullshit. But he didn’t have that, so he just went around humping everyone’s leg and peeing everywhere. Then you came along and he thought he found that owner that would give him that purpose—something that would make him feel needed—but you chose the fancy pet store puppy instead, so he went back to peeing on everything and destroying all the furniture.” “Um, Whit...is there a point to this?” “We all need someone to believe in us. It helps us see our full potential. You were that someone to believe in him. I think he’ll be a new man because of it.” “So you’re saying I rescued a lost puppy, and now he’ll become a topnotch show dog because I’m just so amazing?” “Exactly.” “You have such an eloquent way with words.” “No shit, right?” “Precisely.” -Emma and Whitney ↗

— Rachael Wade

#encouragement #love #support #love

Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#love

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#love #love

It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can’t just let them leave. ↗

— Chloe Rattray

#love #love

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#loss #love #love

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real. ↗

— Misty Edwards

#beauty #belief #charity #christ #christian