#love

Anyone can fall in love, but only those who love generously can feel the pain through love as "purifying fire"... ↗

— Emma Brynstein

#fire #generous #love #pure #love

عندئذ فقط أدركت كيف يغمرك الشوق إلى مكان فلا تملك إلا أن تعود وتلتقط من المدينة أجزاء هنا وهناك لتشكل منها المكان الذي عرفته يوم ما. ولكن ما العمل إذا استحالت العودة؟ ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#love

I thought…” - Arelia “You thought we were making loud, passionate love?” he joked." - Lucus ↗

— Kira Saito

#bound #kira-saito #love

This is torture, torture, torture. Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened??? I'm not as nice in the world today. I am scowly. I am trying to be good and not fussy, but frankly, this is less fun. And I am getting grumpy about the prospect of many, many more days like this ahead. ↗

— Bill Shapiro

#upset #waiting #love

...човек невинаги може да възстанови личните си граници, след като е допуснал да бъдат размити и прекрачени от друго човешко същество в процеса на романтична връзка: колкото и да се опитваме не можем да възвърнем онази автономност на личността, която сме си въобразявали че притежаваме ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#relationships #love

As anxious and limited as that love might have been, it had been love nonetheless. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#love

Je m'étonne/ De ceux qui, connaissant l'amour, aiment encore! ↗

— Mahmoud Darwich

#love #love

Honestly, William, time?' his mother had snapped. 'Distance? Those things have nothing whatsoever to do with love. Who knows that better than you? ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#love

But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps he didn't mean them) and I was ready to follow. It was worse to think of staying behind, to grind one day upon another. Nothing to hold me here. None to regret my leaving, save Az. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#leaving #love #running-away #love

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #physics #relativity #science #love