#k

Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with spikes of purple here and there. But when I do this. . . .” He rested a hand on my hip, and my whole body tensed up. That hand moved around my hip, slipping under my shirt to rest on the small of my back. My skin burned where he touched me, and the places that were untouched longed for that heat. “See?” he said. He was in the throes of spirit now, though with me at the same time. “Well, I guess you can’t. But when I touch you, your aura . . . it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?” He used that hand on me to pull me closer. “Why do you react that way if I don’t mean anything to you?” There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#angst #attraction #aura #denial-of-feelings #feelings

So here’s my question: when you lose the most important person to you in the entire world, where is all the love – love you never even knew you were capable of – supposed to go? ↗

— Ted Michael

#love #love

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#knowledge-wisdom #life-lessons #living-life #love #people

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#love #maltreatment #men #mistreatment #separation

I was dying. I knew it. At least the pain was gone. I wanted to tell him that I loved him. Then darkness overtook me... ↗

— Colleen Houck

#love

Everyone just laughed. But then, I closed my eyes and deeply thought about the story of the tourist, deeply thinking about that story of how many times he was lied to and when he had only his head left, he still thankfully cried. And then, I understood it. Ahh, that's "love", isn't it? Am I right? Loss... All sorts of pain... He never thought about it. The tourist never thought of himself. And even though he's an idiot to lots of people, to me, he's not an idiot at all. A lot of people would take the chance to cheat him, but I would never do that. I would want to make him happy, and that's all. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#momiji #love

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#black #drinking #stain #love

My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy. ↗

— Ethlie Ann Vare

#drugs #love-addiction #self-help #self-help-book #sex

Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#self-love #talking #thoughts #words #love

As with all my children, you must find your own path, and through that discovery, you will decide what each earth child must ultimately decide-whether she chooses chaos or love. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#p-c-cast #the-house-of-night #untamed #love