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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina} ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

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I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#self-injury #self-mutilation #love

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't. ↗

— Gail Carson Levine

#re-reading #reading #words #love

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night ↗

— James Patterson

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While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#brotherly-love #charity #compassion #love

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up. ↗

— Gayle Forman

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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through. ↗

— Francis Chan

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You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#couples #sweet-talk #love

It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

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