#love

I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love #poetry #shakespeare #love

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#happiness #love #love

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#back #deeply #either #fall #go

Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#love #beauty

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#norwegian-wood #toru-watanabe #love

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#prayer #love

Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#god #i #love #oh #play

I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion- ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#love

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#because #busy #chaos #children #family

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#age #cannibal #cannibalism #death #food