#novel

Death is the Inevitable Price We Must Pay. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#literature #novel #relatio #romance #death

A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime. ↗

— Natalie Ansard

#love-novel #love-quote #love-story #romance #romance-love

What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to enrich the spirit; that novels have been conceived at the very least, to entertain us; and even, optimistically, that sociological solutions are a guide to solving something. Viewing the situation calmly, I realized that the first (poetry) was capable of impoverishing the richest spirit, the second of boring the most joyful, the third of confusing the most lucid. ↗

— Augusto Monterroso

#sociology

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love

She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love." -Animal Magnetism ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#love