#inc

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future! ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#duplicities #future #heart #love #passion

we used to play around with our implicitly, we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self, until there is one thing that may be forgotten: is happy incomplete, if we do not explicitly express it? ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#happiness #implicitly #incomplete #love #we

...The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #tres-riche-heures #love

Do what your heart - and your instincts - command and you will not be disappointed! ↗

— Mary Alice Kruesi

#instincts #love #love

LOVE is the most incendiary element ever known, once it sparks the heart, the flame is inextinguishable. ↗

— H.S. Rissam

#cardiac-surgeon #cardiologist #echocardiolography #fiction #fiction-novel

Meine einzigartige transatlantische Reise hat mich gelehrt, dass Freundlichkeit und Mitgefühl viel königlicher sind als Stammbaum und Charme, und dass nicht automatisch magisch in dem Moment eintritt, in dem man einen Prinzen oder einen Palast gefunden hat. Ich habe gelernt, dass ein Seelenzustand ist, den man für sich selbst erschaffen muss - jeden Tag, jede Minute. Und es ist dieses edle Wissen, diese zauberhafte Kraft, die jedes Mädchen in eine Prinzessin verwandeln kann. ↗

— Jerramy Fine

#mein-prinz-wird-kommen #prince #love

We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#james-carstairs #love #tessa-gray #will-herondale #love

My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens...they will all be your friends." -the little prince ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#stars #love

Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different--dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together? ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#dissimilar #fall-in-love #fatal #flaw #fundamentally-distinct

Oberon "one day Atticus was amazed to discover that when Jupiter said "As you wish," what he really meant was "I love you. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#princess-bride-jokes #love