#lovers

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne. ↗

— Mark A. Rayner

#ashes #child #crush #death #fail

Somehow they were entwining without touch, following a choreography laid down in time for lovers. ↗

— Emma Calin

#love-stories #lovers #romance #romance-novel #love

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. ↗

— Anatole France

#down #love #lovers #their #truly

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ↗

— Rose Franken

#lovers #passionate #real #silly #takes

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

The anger of lovers renews their love. ↗

— Terence

#love #lovers #renews #their

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#always #among #ardor #better #fares

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ↗

— Stephen King

#duty #endlessly #friends #lie #lovers

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#lips #lovers #meets #soul