#night

It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye. ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#evil #night #omen #ominous #star

How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#life

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#love #love

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love ↗

— Clive Barker

#absolute-midnight #clive-barker #hate #hurt #love

Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#burned #house-of-night #p-c-cast #love

Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can’t erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain. ↗

— Matsuri Hino

#love

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door? ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#love

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward-cullen #love #love-story #midnight-sun #twilight-saga

I wanted to write “stay” on your sides, surround your bed with oceans of salt. I hope he folds you into a fox, loves you like a splintered arrow, brandishes the kill of your lips. May the bouquet of your hips wither. May the wolves forget your name. ↗

— J. Bradley

#j-bradley #love

What had seemed like love was betrayal ↗

— Claudia Gray

#love