#novel

Everything depends exclusively on emotions. ↗

— Natalie Ansard

#love-novel #love-story #love

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

الحب بالنسبة للكثيرين أمر ثانوي من أمور الحياة ، كما الرياضة و الإجازة و العروض المسرحية. على الحب أن يكون عمليا وأن ينسجم مع الحياة التي اخترناه . فهو بالنسبة للرجل ، المهنة التي يتوقف عليها كل شيء . وبالنسبة للمرأة هو الأطفال . من منظور كهذا لايمكن للحب أن يكون إلا نزوة عابرة ، مرض يُشتهى أن يكون قصير الأجل . من أين جاء هذا السيل من المفاهيم المبتذلة للعلاج النفسي بشأن الطابع الهشّ و العابر للهوى ؟ أعتقد أننا إذا رسمنا قدرنا انطلاقًا من حبنا فسيظل هذا الأخير أبديًا ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#man #novel #woman #love

I won’t break Cooper,” she pulled his head to hers with a hand tangled in his hair to whisper huskily in his ear; “I’ll even bend if you like. ↗

— Kelly Curry

#contemporary-romance #love #romance-novels #romances #love

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-stripped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, 'Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#novel #quote #the-lovely-bones #love

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie ↗

— John Charles Harman

#love #mystery #romance-novels #love

The army don’t teach enlisted men how to fly,” I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. “We gotta do that for ourselves. ↗

— Amy Lane

#men

[When asked about Writing Conferences] "You meet people that will change your life. ↗

— Susan Wingate

#fiction-novel #inspiring #reading #women-s-stories #change

Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith

#novelty #worship #music

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment. ↗

— Albert Camus

#albert-camus #first-novel #death