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Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#love #tupac #love

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. ↗

— Compton Mackenzie

#whiskey #love

I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#romance #love

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one. ↗

— John Greene

#heartbreak #i-love-you #love #love

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#understanding #love

You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by- ↗

— Connie Willis

#loyalty #death

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ↗

— Gelett Burgess

#check #dead #discarded #few #haven

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#love #love

He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#love

Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them. ↗

— K.A. Tucker

#k-a-tucker #kacey-cleary #ten-tiny-breaths #love