#love

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#love #safety #separation #love

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed."- Jace. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#falling-in-love #love #survived #swim #love

These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love

He kept his eyes on mine, his gaze unblinking, and I stared right back into the blue. He moved almost imperceptibly and in the space between a heartbeat his lips touched mine. ↗

— Sarah Alderson

#romance #love

If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist. ↗

— Rumi

#love

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens. ↗

— Ally Condie

#trust #love

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#love-and-other-stories #short-stories #faith

Well, cast your mind back to the books he wrote. What is the one theme that keeps recurring from book to book? It is that the woman doesn’t fall in love with the man. The man may or may not love the woman; but the woman never loves the man. What do you think that theme reflects? My guess, my highly informed guess, is that it reflects his life experience. Women didn’t fall for him—not women in their right senses. They inspected him, maybe they even tried him our. Then they moved on. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#move-on #women #experience

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important. ↗

— Sarah Strohmeyer

#food