#let

Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce cackle. Refuses to hear the hum of destruction under- neath. Until such time as it will have to hear. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#nathaniel-hawthorne #scarlet-letter #love

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#heartache #heartbreak #love #love-hurts #love-letter

Our book would never be read aloud There would not be celebrations of milestones Of souls in warmth and drunk embers of whispers that caressed wounded yesterdays Our names would never be uttered in one breath There would not be oohs and aahs at yellowed photographs Of promises made in the silence of held hands And yet If I am not able to love again, the way that I do now… I would toast to what you and I could have been As frost of what’s left unspoken thaw and disappear Because We sought out the sun And coaxed out the moon As we basked and bathed In love’s soothing serenade And in those moments Memories of you now Would always Always be enough for me. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#love

My heart didn’t break into a thousand pieces after he left. Instead, I realized all the things he didn’t do. He didn’t want to hear my stories. He didn’t ask me questions. He didn’t smile when I was talking to him. He didn’t hug me out of the blue to make me feel good. His hugs were always a preamble to something else and after he was gone, I wondered if he ever knew me at all. ↗

— Diane Les Becquets

#letting-go #love #love

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life. ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#enchanted #fairy-tales #love #love

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#finished #incomplete #love #love is #man

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite! ↗

— Karl Marx

#proletariat #men

Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#caletti #deb #honey #peach #sweetheart

I am the Circle and the Circle is me ↗

— Patrick Ness

#monsters-of-men #the-ask-and-the-answer #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #men

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory! ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#proletariat #men