#love

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. ↗

— John Donne

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There’s something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn’t stop. There is no controlling it—love does what it wants when it wants. ↗

— H.M. Ward

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If you fail me, I'll kill you. I swear it, Keenan. If you fail me, I'll rip your heart out with my own hands." "If I fail you, I'll cut it out for you. ↗

— Melissa Marr

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When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems and that's all what we love of talking about. We don't see the good things in our lives. ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

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Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#hysteria #love #love

Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship. ↗

— Alison Croggon

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By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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man, i would have peeled off my shirt faster than you can say bubba loves trucks. ↗

— P.C. Cast

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