#mo

Edgar, do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? There's not rule book that says how to do this." She laughed, bitterly. "Wouldn't that be great? No decisions to make. Everything laid right out for us. But there's no such thing. You want facts, don't you? Rules. Proof. You're like your father that way. Just because a thing can't be logged, charted, and summarized doesn't mean it isn't real. Half the time we walk around in love with the idea of a thing instead of the reality of it. But sometimes things don't turn out that way. You have to pay attentin to what's real, what's in the world. Not some imaginary alternative, as if it's a choice we could make. ↗

— David Wroblewski

#mouring #love

Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#love #loyalty #motherhood #suffering #love

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #love

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic. ↗

— Jessica Park

#olympic-games #sport #sports #love

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #love #simon-lewis #love

I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked. ↗

— David Sedaris

#political #food

Ojalá te encuentre por aquí, en alguna calle del sueño. Es una gran alegría ésta de aprisionarte con mis párpados al dormir. ↗

— Jaime Sabines

#jaime-sabines #love #love

she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#judith-mcnaught #love #whitney #whitney-my-love #love

We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love

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

— George Jean Nathan

#emotion #enjoyed #experienced #few #love is