#love

She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#coping #drinking-your-troubles-away #happy-hour #loss #lost-love

In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life

You look at me with them eyes of yers, an I look at yer lips... an all I can think about is what it'ud be like to kiss you. ↗

— Moira Young

#kiss #love #love

لم تكتشف أنّ لها شفتين إلّا حين قبّلها. ولا انّها كانت تتنفّس إلّا حين قاسمته في قبلةٍ أنفاسه. ولا أنّ لها شعرًا إلّا وهو يمرّر يده على خصلاته. ولا أنّ لها جسدًا.. ورائحة وحواس.. إلّا عندما أهداى لها في ضمّةٍ أنوثتها ↗

— أحلام مستغانمي

#love

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love-story #lovers #love

Love is like a slut, Available for all, Loyal to no one.. ↗

— Himmilicious

#love

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think— no, you will realize— that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#grief #loss #love #pain #spirituality

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#love

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#reading #love

The name of a person you love is more than language. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#love