#lovely

I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going on in your head. Like the water and the woods are doing all the feeling, and I can hang out, quiet as a headstone, in a between place. A blank I can bear. ↗

— Amy McNamara

#lovely-dark-and-deep #wren-wells #love

At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#love

Okay Marlowe,' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'" line from Farewell My Lovely 1944. ↗

— Phillip Marlow

#love

There is no greater torture than being forced to watch as your love, your reason for living, breathing, and existing, sinks into oblivion. Your heart stops no matter how you try to get to her, she just gets farther and farther away." ~Fane from 'Beyond the Vail' "Attention shoppers, just a brief announcement, crazy ass werewolf on isle three. Those with abundance of testosterone, don't touch their lady merchandise and you might walk out of here intact." ~Jen from 'Fate and Fury'. "In the event of some sort of gathering, if one of the bossy, overbearing, possessive fur balls has not flipped his switch and attacked some poor young pup in some misguided attempt to protect his woman's virtue, then the night is not over." ~Jen from 'Beyond the Vail ↗

— Quinn Loftis

#humor #lovely #thoughtfull #love

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#been #concept #fond #i #lovely

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. ↗

— Margaret Forster

#easy #evening #i #i write #life

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#birthdays #find #forget #i #including

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#eve #experiences #extraordinary #had #i

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#am #blind #blindness #cry #i

This isn't a letter, it's a gift. ↗

— David Nicholls

#love