#love

The mistake the two of us made,’ I said, ‘was that we skimped the foreplay. I’m not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#love #mistake #love

We don't need to talk. We need to love. ↗

— Ellen Sussman

#love

You made me feel good today. Thanks. But it ain't love ↗

— Ellen Sussman

#love

Meskipun raga kita berjarak, namun hati kita selalu bersama. Hatiku dan hatimu tak berjarak. ↗

— Hilda Nurina Sabikah

#love #romance #love

People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#asexuality #love #love

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love ↗

— John Paul II

#person #personalism #philosophy #love

The forest is only waiting for their signal to start trembling, hissing, and roaring from its depths. An enormous, love-maddened, unlighted railway station, full to bursting. Whole trees bristling with living noise makers, mutilated erections, horror. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#love #noise #trees #love

والأرض عارية يسهل الرقص عليها ↗

— أهداف سويف

#love

When?" Sam had asked after their last session, his breath hot against her mouth, a dangerous flare of heat in his eyes. "I don't know," Lucy had said weakly, shivering as his hands stroked her back and hips. "Not until I can be sure of myself." "Let me have you," he had whispered, resting his forehead on hers. "Let me make love to you all night. I want to wake up with you again. Just tell me what you need, Lucy, and I'll do it." -Sam to Lucy (Rainshadow Road) ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#sam-nolan #love

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#justice #liberty #love