#love

there’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, “Let me take care of you forever,” and I have never heard it spoken before.Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself,especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely . . . ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#romance #secure #love

And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#pain #sorrow #love

A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#love #romance #soulmates #love

Now that I've found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I'm not used to being... afraid." A sudden realization came to her, "So this is love," she said quietly. "The daily prospect of joy or disaster ↗

— Zoe Archer

#fear #love #new-found-love #romance #love

Tell me again was it love at first sight When I walked by and you caught my eye Didn't you know love could shine this bright? Well, smile because you're the deer in the headlights. ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #love

All I’m saying is that I don’t want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I’d rather find one person and fall completely, deeply in over my head. ↗

— Anna White

#love

We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds. ↗

— Fitz-James O'Brien

#night #quiet #love

I love you as one loves certain dark things. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love

Si tu bendita soledad se funde con la mía ya no sabré si soy en vos o vos terminás siéndome. ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#poem #love