#lovers

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ↗

— Lord Byron

#anything #friend #friends #lovers #mistress

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— Lord Byron

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

While some dismiss the Bible as a dusty old book, I view its pages as portals to adventure. Not only is the book chock-full of clever plots and compelling stories, but it’s laced with historical insights and literary beauty. When I open the Scripture, I imagine myself exploring an ancient kingdom . . . With every encounter, I learn something new about their life journeys and am reminded that the Bible is more than a record of the human quest for God: it’s the revelation of God’s quest for us.” - Scouting the Divine ↗

— Margaret Feinberg

#margaret-feinberg #scouting-the-divine #beauty

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#flesh #happens #like #lovers #made

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em. ↗

— Evan Dando

#fan #favourite #get #huge #huge fan

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#gloria-gilbert #lovers #people #radiance #sun

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

— Anatole France

#down #love #lovers #their #truly

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#days #different #different thing #famous #grew

You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#haters #lovers #you