#ma

No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons. ↗

— Melody Manful

#guardian-angels #love-story #melody-manful #paranormal #romance

كأن يديك المكان الوحيد كأن يديك بلد آه من وطن في جسد! ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#love

We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didn´t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our soles, the way the tide rushes sand to fill in the crevices of a rocky shore. We-or maybe it was just I-bandaged our needswith what we declared was love. But, eventually, the tide draws out what it has swept in. ↗

— Alma Katsu

#paranormal #love

When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#love #romance #love

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #people #standards #value #virtue

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen ↗

— Kim Harrison

#urban-fantasy #love

She stepped closer to one of the statues. It looked wide-eyed, almost afraid as she reached out her hand. One of the women reached out and snatched Aislinn's still uplifted hand. "No." The women spoke all at once, not to her or to Keenan, but softly-as if to themselves-in a sibilant whisper. "He's ours. Fair exchange. Not yours to interfere. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#keenan #melissa-marr #wicked-lovely #love

She could not leave him hanging like this. “If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook. ↗

— Tara Janzen

#romance #romantic-suspense #love

My Dearest Julianne, Thank you for your immeasurable gift. The only thing I have of value is my heart. It’s yours, Gabriel. ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#romance #love

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#emotion #enjoyed #experienced #few #love is