#love

The only drink I like ice in is water, because you can’t water down water. I’m like that with love, too. Don’t you dare add any ice to the hot liquid loving I’m trying to pour all over you. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#drink #funny #hot #humor #ice

we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within. there’s nowhere, my love, the world can exist expect within. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #poet #poetry #love

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun. ↗

— Charles Hanson Towne

#love #love

He released her hand back in her own lap. "Sometimes you give up what you love to stay alive." "Have you ever had to do that?" He turned his head to look at her so long it should have been dangerous, but he seemed to have a sixth sense when it came to the road. "It's coming," he said. And he turned away, driving into the slowly dawning day. ↗

— Anne Stuart

#love

He tells me to go away, but I don't think love is anything like water. It doesn't slip off that easily. ↗

— Joy Nicholson

#love

Uncomplicated, no strings sex makes you happy, love makes you miserable. ↗

— Spencer Waking the dead

#bbc-drama-series-waking-the-dead #love #love

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future. ↗

— Robyn Donald

#love #past #relationships #age

Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure ↗

— James Agee

#age

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#live-now #philisophical #philisophical-life #philisophical-love #philosophy

They drove back to her house in silence. Terrance pulled the car into the driveway and turned off the engine. Turning toward her, he said, “Khadejah, I really like you a lot and I don’t want to hurt you. But I’m not a virgin and I like to have sex. If we’re going to keep seeing each other, you’ve got to make a decision, because if I can’t get it from you I’ll get it from someone else.” He looked her straight in her tear-filled eyes. “I need to know whether to get a room for after the concert. Let me know tomorrow.” He reached over and opened her door. Khadejah didn’t say a word. She got out of the car and went into the house. Terrance sat there for a few minutes wondering if he was being fair. She had to know that he was having sex. Damn, I should feel honored that she’s still a virgin, he thought. Shit, I’ll just have my cake and eat it, too. Ten minutes later, Terrance was knocking on Adrienne’s door. “Hey, can I come in? ↗

— Tracy L. Darity

#love #maturity #relationships #teen-love #age