#love

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ↗

— George Eliot

#desire #effort #escape #evil #except

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#hate #love #love

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#love

Love insists the loved loves back ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#love

I love you, Gideon.” “God.” He looked at me with something that resembled disgust. Whether it was directed at me or himself, I didn’t know. “How can you say that?” “Because it’s the truth.” “You just see this”—he gestured at himself with a wave of his hand. “You’re not seeing the fucked-up, broken mess inside.” I inhaled sharply. “You can say that to me? When you know I’m fucked up and broken, too? ↗

— Sylvia Day

#eva-tramell #gideon-cross #love

Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most." ~ Hardy Cates ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#liberty-jones #love #sugar-daddy #life

I'm in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#love

I was just waiting for you to want me as much as I wanted you.” His words were quiet but carried one hell of an impact. “I knew we were going to be together; it was just a matter of time. I kept hoping that you would figure it out. But for a smart girl, you’re a little dense, Vi. I kept bringing up Lissie Adams, and showing you the notes she was leaving me, hoping that you’d get pissed enough to finally admit how you felt about me. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ↗

— Walter Scott

#love