#id

He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of his mouth on hers, all the things he could never say out loud: I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clary-fray #forbidden-love #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#love #love

He murmured her name, tenderly taking her face in his hands. “I love you,” he said, his voice low and fervent. “I love you with everything I am, everything I’ve been, and everything I hope to be.” “I love you with my past, and I love you for my future.” He bent forward and kissed her, once, softly, on the lips. “I love you for the children we’ll have and for the years we’ll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles, and even more, for every one of your smiles. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#colin #love #penelope #romance #love

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make. ↗

— David Richo

#inspirational #love #quote #relationships #trust

The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#forgettable #goodness #love #pain #real

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else... ↗

— Julia Quinn

#colin-bridgerton #love #penelope-bridgerton #romancing-mr-bridgerton #love

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#love #love

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love ↗

— Clive Barker

#absolute-midnight #clive-barker #hate #hurt #love

On the day of his mother’s funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved anything or anyone, I said, “Go to hell. ↗

— Jenny Han

#giddy #love

faith gaped at him"how the hell did you do this?" He looked at her as if she'd asked the dumbest question in history. "I'm brilliant. ↗

— Dianne Sylvan

#faith #faith