#lover

She silenced him with her mouth, then pulled back. "You can't change what I think of you." He reached up and brushed her lower lip with his thumb. "If you truly knew me, everything you believe would change." "Your heart would be the same. And that is what I love. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#brotherhood #cormia #jr-ward #lover-enshrined #phury

Don't give up on the power of books to change lives and the world. As everything goes digital, book formats will morph, but their profound influence will endure. ↗

— David Marshall

#inspirational #change

He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #fear #games #jamie-weise #love

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#lead #love #lover #may #scientist

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#the-silver-metal-lover #young-adult #age

Reiko set the ball on the ground and patted my knee. "Look," she said, "I'm not telling you to stop sleeping with girls. If you're O.K. with that, then it's OK. It's your life after all, it's something _you_ have to decide. All I'm saying is that you shouldn't use yourself up in some unnatural form. Do you see what I'm getting at? It would be such a waste. The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. It's true. So think carefully. If you want to take care of Naoko, take care of yourself too." I said I would think about it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #modern-lovers #norwegian-wood #sex #age

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#lovers #marriage #stage #stars #wedding

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman. ↗

— Jerry Harrison

#been #had #i #jonathan #lovers

I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs. ↗

— Bonnie Hunt

#animal lover #cheap #even #ever #faux

You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands. If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed ↗

— Viktor Shklovsky

#book-loving #experience