#nov

I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. For I will not turn tail and run the other way as he did, oh no. I will find you, and I will drag you to the altar on your back if need be, no matter how you might be screaming. No matter how scandalous it might be. ↗

— Brenda Joyce

#love

Do you know the best way to get your body heat back?" Ethan asked her as he looked her in the eyes and stroked her glossy brown hair. “The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked. ↗

— Amanda Bretz

#romance-novel #survival #love

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them. ↗

— Kathy Reinhart

#novelist #writer #love

I love you, Vic! Anything else is lies. I really, truly love you. I’ll love you until the day I die. ↗

— Natalie Ansard

#love-quotes #love-story #love

The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych." [Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013] ↗

— Colm Tóibín

#conceit #critique #diptychs #grandeur #novelists

Afterwards, as he held me and stroked my hair, my body was singing with pleasure, I couldn’t believe I had waited so long. I thought of how we had wasted a whole year we could have had together and I felt so sad I wanted to cry. ↗

— Somi Ekhasomhi

#romance #romance-novels #love

Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana. ↗

— Judith Krantz

#novel #love

No sé, todavía qué es lo que separa el aprecio del amor. ↗

— Jane Austen

#novel #love

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue. ↗

— Hegel

#economics-philosophy #hegel #innovative #interesting #philosophy

I rewrapped the scarf around my neck, and thought about how excited Jake had been that first winter he was here. Maybe it was just as simple as this: that he'd been up here enough to know that there wasn't anything special about Willow Hill. Including me. ↗

— Claire Ray

#love