#love

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#marriage #teen-fiction #young-adult #love

I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#good #intensity #love #marriage #spouse

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#love #love

She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#garrick #line #losing-it #love #marriage

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage. ↗

— Robert Anderson

#love #work #love

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#allies #existentialism #love #madness #pain

Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me. Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you. ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#heart-ache #heartache #loss #lost #love-lost

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intimacy #love

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#christy #love #marriage #miller #love