#love

If you wait for love to give your life meaning, you will go through life without both ↗

— Linda Poindexter

#life

Love is a connection with another person, either through birth or through something else that I cannot even explain. It is often just an attraction at first. But it goes far deeper than that. It is a determination to care for the other person no matter what and to allow oneself to be cared for in return. It is a commitment to make the other happy and to be happy oneself. It is not possessive, but neither is it a victim. And it does not always bring happiness. Often it brings a great deal of pain, especially when the beloved is suffering and one feels impotent to comfort. It is what life is all about. It is openness and trust and vulnerability. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#meaning-of-life #life

We don't give to get, we get to give ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#give #give-and-take #love #love-come-to-me #lovers

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... ↗

— Lawrence Block

#short-stories #short-story #writers #writing #love

Because the truth is, this is love, and it doesn't matter if you lose everything. Your job. Your home. Your car. Not as long as you have that person by your side. ↗

— Jessica Thompson

#love

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way. ↗

— Courtney M. Privett

#love #love-and-loss #love

Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out. ↗

— Sara Quin

#love #not-tonight #pull #ribs #sara-quin

Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#mother-night #love

What I don't know don't keep me hostage. It's your love that locks me up and I want you to know that I love the way you make my heart tear up. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#dont-be-so-cruel #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #love

I don't need company in the company of you. And I don't need love, 'Cause your love will do. And I've got you. And you've got me. And that's all we need. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #when-i-get-up #love