#in

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

You can love someone you mistrust. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#claudia #emily-giffin #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

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#pain #love

Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn’t fancy her chances. “You don’t know James Carstairs. Don’t speak about him.” “Love him, do you?” Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. “But you love Will, too.” Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will’s affection for her, but the idea that what she felt for him in return was written across her face was too terrifying to contemplate. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem #tessa #will #love

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#climb #does #epoch #i #i can

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#negativity #love

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#love #trainspotting #love

Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me? ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#ernest-hemingway #love #love