#love

Knowing me better than I think anyone should Except, perhaps No, probably No, definitely Definitely except you ↗

— Thalia Circe

#poetry #understanding #love

I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong ↗

— Vicki M. Taylor

#forever #love #writing #love

I loved her; I didn’t know how to say it without breaking down the autobot façade she saw before her and revealing the ugly and scarred wreck that lived within my skin. So I played with the radio instead. ↗

— David Louden

#literature #roman-á-clef #love

She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly strife she had emerged pure, happy in the arms of the man whom her wondrous adventures as much as his brilliant personality had taught her to love. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #love

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station. ↗

— R.W. Rivers

#crime-fiction #crime-thriller #gold #love #mystery-thriller

Se a fé fosse racional, não seria - por definição - fé. Fé é acreditar naquilo que não se pode ver, provar ou tocar. Fé é caminhar de cara levantada e a toda a velocidade em direcção à escuridão ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Nothing is more permanent than passion when you have a heart of stone. No one needs more dusting than a sensitive soul who has a heart of ash. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #passion #sensitivity #love

And then finally she came - and the whole world faded out around us and we were just alone on the crowded sidewalk. I've heard it called love. ("I Won't Take a Minute" aka "I'll Just Be a Minute" aka "Wait for Me Downstairs" aka "Finger Of Doom") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#lovers #love

There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#lenin #umberto-eco #love

Ein guter Mann ist so stark, wie er es für die richtige Frau sein muss. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#strength #love