#lover

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers. ↗

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#arms #beginning #carefully #come #fields

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#convention #dividing #divine #each #human

Beauty is the lover's gift. ↗

— William Congreve

#gift #lover

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#delectable #display #isolates #like #lovers

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#being #her #him #loved #lover

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#best #could #falling #falling in love #get

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#enjoyment #experienced #had #heaven #indeed

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ↗