#had

Now Hadley presses her forehead against the window of the taxi and once again finds herself smiling at the thought of him. He's like a song she can't get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn't think she could ever get tired of hearing it. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#hadley #love #love

I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone! ↗

— Tom Conrad

#love #madness #moths #punctuation #revenge

When I first saw you when we were destined, I promised myself that I wouldn't force you to love me, but I would find a way to win you. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#calla #nightshade #ren #love

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#soul #men

Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#shadowcat #x-men #men

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books

Ever, we are not defined by our things. It's not the clothes we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire - it's not where we live - but how we live that defines us. It's our actions that are remembered long after we're gone. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#inspirational #shadowland #art

You are the sun, and I'm the moon. In your shadow I can shine. ↗

— Tokio Hotel

#in-your-shadow-i-can-shine #love #lyrics #music #tokio-hotel

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#good #great #great love #had #haven

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#had #heard #his #man #naked