#love

This world operates on cause and effect. If you give, you get back. If you steal, you get stolen from. If you cheat and try to profit without working for it, someday you'll get in trouble. ↗

— Maria - Lovesick

#manga

I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#dreams #love #reincarnation #soulmates #death

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#chance #gives #glad #life #look

No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he’d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#devotion #dog #love #death

There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#death #depression #disability #fear #hurt

I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#intensity #love #dreams

You need a place just a click over middle range. Don’t want to go all-out first time, but you don’t want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place.” “Bob, you’re going to give me an ulcer.” “This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn’t want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you’ll split it. Women love that. Sharing dessert’s sexy. Do not go on and on about your job over dinner. Certain death. Get her to talk about hers, and what she likes to do. Then—” “Should I be writing this down? ↗

— Nora Roberts

#friends #friendships #humor #love #dating

Life has to end, she said. Love doesn't. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#death #dying #endings #inspirational #life

Pressing my head to his heart, I listened hard, straining to hear any gurgle or murmur of life. Hearing nothing, I felt the shock settle into my mind, slowing it down and then turning it off. "Don't leave me, Noah. Please, don't go," I whispered into the darkness as the light spray of rain touched my face. If only I could turn back time. I would tell him yes. ↗

— Karen Ann Hopkins

#grief #losing-someone #love #regret #death

We knew, and to see her there like that with you-and armed. I think I died a thousand deaths, Ana. ↗

— E.L. James

#fifty-shades-darker #love #death