#of

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#the-best-of-me #love

There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #clary-fray #cols #jace-herondale #jace-lightwood

[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.” Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. “Ella found a dog,” she announced. “A large dog. And a Cyclops.” Was she blushing? Before Percy could decide, his black mastiff pounced on him, knocking Percy to the ground and barking so loudly that even Arion backed up. “Hey, Mrs. O'Leary,” Percy said. “Yeah, I love you, too, girl. Good dog.” Hazel squeaked. “You have a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary?” “Long story. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hazel-levesque #heroes-of-olympus #humor #mrs-o-leary #percy-jackson-and-te-olympians

Think of love as a state of grace; not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#disbelief #gabriel-garcía-márquez #love #love-conquers-all #of-love-and-other-demons

So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#love #love

To love is to destroy and to be loved is to be the one destroyed ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #jace-wayland #love

You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. ↗

— Gaston Leroux

#phantom-of-the-opera #love

Though love is a not a fight, its something worth fighting for. ↗

— Warren Barfield

#love #love

... If you never try to see [someone] for who they are, then you don't love them enough. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#love #love