#fiction

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards. ↗

— George Orwell

#politics #science-fiction #art

I adore you, Chiru. I want to show you in ways words can't express ↗

— Augusta Li

#romance-love #love

Though a modern woman’s computer is more intimate than her bed... ↗

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

#love #woman #love

Entah mengapa, mendadak dia merasa bahwa berkenalan dengan si pemilik nama itu sepertinya akan menyenangkan. ↗

— Jee

#fiction-novel #fiction-writing #romance #romance-love #romance-novels

Ah, ya, omong-omong, aku sangat merindukanmu. Apa kau merindukanku juga, mmm? ↗

— Jee

#fiction-novel #fiction-writing #missing #romance #romance-love

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it. ↗

— H. A. Lamb

#fantasy-fiction #love

I touched his face. "Look," I said. "I love you more than everything else in the world combined. Isn't that enough?" "Yes, it is enough," he answered, smiling. "Enough for forever. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love

I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me. It was the f***ing story of my life. ↗

— Christina Channelle

#new-adult-romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #love

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#marriage #marriage

Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#philosophy #men