#it

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. ↗

— Hanif Kureishi

#commitment #love #perseverance #love

The smile upon my lips, 
 It will surely never die 
 As I'm waiting here for you 
 until you're by my side. ↗

— Freida Martinez

#love #smile #waiting #love

...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and days.' 'Days and days! Only days and days? O, the heart of a man! Days and days!' 'But, my dear madam, I had not known you more than a day or two. It was not a full-blown love - it was the merest bud - red, fresh, vivid, but small. It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never returned. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#reality-bites #love

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them,” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them. ↗

— Mary Gaitskill

#love #love

আজিকে চাঁদ উঠবে প্রথম রাতে নদীর পারে নারিকেলের বনে, দেবালয়ের বিজন আঙিনাতে পড়বে আলো গাছের ছায়া-সনে । দখিন-হাওয়া উঠবে হঠাত্‍ বেগে, আসবে জোয়ার সঙ্গে তারি ছুটে- বাঁধা তরী টেউয়ের দোলা লেগে ঘাটের পরে মরবে মাথা কুটে । জোয়ার যখন মিশিয়ে যাবে কূলে, থমথমিয়ে আসবে যখন জল, বাতাস যখন পড়বে ঢুলে ঢুলে, চন্দ্র যখন নামবে অস্তাচল, শিথিল তনু তোমার ছোঁওয়া ঘুমে চরণতলে পড়বে লুটে তবে । বসে আছি শয়ন পাতি ভূমে, তোমার এবার সময় হবে কবে ? ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#poetry-love #poetry-quotes #wait #love

Love is like a unicorn with a rainbow for a horn. What I mean is it’s rare, and you’re lucky if you see it once, or at the most twice, in a given week.
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #luck #lucky #mythical #mythological

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bias #compassion #comprehension #discernment #fear

For I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#the-boleyn-inheritance #life

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#love #life

And let's not leave out the whole 'Scout is a love whore' issue." Talley tilted her face up. "What is a love whore exactly?" "You know, some reckless person who goes around falling in love with every attractive guy she comes across. Charlie, Alex, Liam. I'm all 'Oh! Pretty boy!' and the next thing you know I'm ruining everyone's lives because I want to curl up inside them and liver forever." "That is quite possibly the most bizarre and creepy description of what it feels like to fall in love I've ever heard." "Falling in love is bizarre and creepy. ↗

— Tammy Blackwell

#talley #witty-banter #love