#les

if your love is only a will to possess, its not love ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#love

In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest. ↗

— Mike Dooley

#true-love #love

I missed you so much," she breathed. I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too. ↗

— Kieran Scott

#couples #love #missing-you #relationships #love

What do you have there?” Mouse perked up at her interest. “I’m making ski masks to have on hand for bank robberies. Last night I finished the fingerless mermaid gloves for Eve. She likes her fingers free for gunplay.” Mouse’s needles clicked together in a peaceful rhythm. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#love #poughkeepsie #love

She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#restless #love

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#jean-valjean #les-miserables #smiling #suffering #love

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.... ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #power #rules #tyrant #world

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#knowledge #uselessness #love

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. ↗

— Marc Norman

#love #poetry #shakespeare-in-love #viola-de-lesseps #life