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Love is like a door knob that I’ve mistaken for a shower handle, and I’m trying to turn up the heat on our relationship, but the handle won’t turn and I’ve got shampoo in my eyes and my wetsuit is dry and I started crying just as the zookeeper asked me to leave. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#door-knob #heat #love #mistake #relationships

Don’t steal anymore hearts,” he told me. “You’ve already got mine. ↗

— Shana Norris

#love #love

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #love #stella #this-hunger #love

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#relationships #truth #love

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#desire #love #need #security #sylvia-plath

When someone leaves, its because someone else is about to arrive- I'll find love again. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#the-zahir #love

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#speak #tessa #love

Fine. Let Ranger get someone else. Trust me, you don't want to be out looking for a parking place on Sloane in the middle of the night." I won't have to look for a parking place. Tank's picking me up. Your working with a guy name Tank? He's big. Jesus, Morelli said. I had to fall in love with a woman who works with a guy named Tank. You love me? Of course i love you. I just don't want to marry you. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#stephine #love

Oh, dear Lord. I was in love with him. And there wasn’t a thing on earth, in heaven, or in hell that could have stopped me ↗

— Wendy Higgins

#love

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#relationship #love