#mat

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book." [Why Reading is Dangerous, Spirit Magazine (Southwest Airlines), February 2008] ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#reading #transformation #death

God's love descends on some like dew on a flower, blessed be He, but sometimes we trudge along our comfortable lives and bam, He descends on us like a splash of gasoline... and then He strikes a match. ↗

— Francisco X. Stork

#gasoline #god #love #marcelo #match

...if he didn't fully understand where I came from, he understood who I was now -- he knew how well done I liked my steak, knew the color of my toothbrush, the expression I made when I realized I'd forgotten to roll up my car window before it rained. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#marriage #relationships #soulmate #love

I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms. ↗

— Scott Spencer

#love #mature #life

...I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up a room by walking into it... ↗

— John Geddes

#musing #soul-mate #the-one #love

You know, you're hot and you've got that badass manly man thing going and I'm crazily attracted to you, but honestly, I suspect you're going to be a little too bossy for my tastes. Thanks for the offer on the whole love-me-die-for-me thing, but I'll pass. ↗

— Stephanie Rowe

#quinn-masters #love

Our love is an adventurous melody, our souls forever as one. ↗

— Angela Richardson

#love-story #soul-mates #love

There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#earth #humor #materialism #love

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too). ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#information #love

What do you think of all this, darlin’? Will you be my soul mate? ↗

— Ann Macela

#magic #soulmates #love