#lines

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#love

If we found a ticket to Disneyland would you think we should arrest Mickey Mouse? ↗

— Diane L. Randle

#bloodlines #crime #drowning #ghost #lost-love

Nothing is better than to have me look after you with love & affection...So she chose (to go with) Nothing. ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#loneliness #love #nothing #quotes-i-love #romance

Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise the icy serenity of their earlier relations. And he knew that he should not love her, for she had been someone else whom he was supposed to love differently. -What is loneliness? Does the lonely space between two rocks vanish when spanned by a spider web? ↗

— William T. Vollmann

#love #love

For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body, their touch, their heat, their oceanic heart...she doesn't want another body, she wants the body she loved, the forceps scar across his cheek that she traced with her hand, his penis, its elegant sweep to the side, the preternaturally soft skin. One wants what one has loved, not the idea of love. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#loneliness #longing #loss #lost-love #mourning

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me! ↗

— Herculine Barbin

#hermaphrodite #intersex #loneliness #sad #sadness

He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and does not know that she is giving; in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not suspect my loneliness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#love #love

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#loneliness #lonely #love #love

how much he loved being alone except when he didn't, except when it got to be too much? ↗

— Elizabeth Graver

#love

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. ↗

— Fábio Moon

#love #love