#lovers

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

Today was a rocket ship of a day. If you guessed that today was Monday (Moonday), you’d win the “Astronauts Make Better Lovers” Award. But I say, Take off your fucking helmet when I’m talking to you. And do they really make better lovers? I say, Put on your concrete boots, Lunar Child III, and come back to earth. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#lovers #funny

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#collectors #lovers #music #parents #were

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #compromise #learn #live #lovers

Though lovers be lost love shall not. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#lost #lost love #lovers #shall #though

Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#collectors #into #lovers #turn

That is what the opposites do, cross the swords invariably and unknowingly. ↗

— Aporva Kala

#life

To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of all the flowery springtime love affairs that ever were seemed waiting for them in the whisky bottle. To mingle their pain their handshake had promised them, was to produce a separate entity, like a child that could shift for itself, and they scrambled hastily toward this profound and pastoral experience. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#lovers #whiskey #experience

Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain You never know when it will end, don’t let a moment pass in vain… In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained, I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained… ↗

— Mehek Bassi

#breakups #broken #chained #emotions #end