#fat

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#poetry #tragedy #love

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fate #love #love

I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. ↗

— Erich Segal

#love

Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#father-daughter #mast #ship #ship-building #love

I fantasized how no matter what happened, no one could ever come between us, call it wishful thinking, I called it a fact. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love #love

Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of her heart on the building of his expectations. But then wasn't it his fault that he had constructed the building of glass? Hadn't he failed to cement the bricks of his love with trust and colour them with security? There was no insurance for broken hearts, no ointment for wounded souls and there would never be one, he knew. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#fate #love #trust #life

Then she smiled and told me I was cute, and that I should be careful, and I asked her why, then she said that she might fall for me, but I know she was joking, because who would want to fall for me? I'm a mess. ↗

— Abraham M. Alghanem

#falling-in-love #infatuation #love #love

It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#infatuation #love #love

The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#love #war #love

I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him. ↗

— Naomi Novik

#dragon #fat #humor #humor