#of

She was like a star in the sky and I would imagine how she could be mine.... ↗

— I R Shankar

#romance-novels #true-colors-of-love #imagination

She nodded against me. “Do you need me to do anything?” I didn’t need a thing from her, but I wanted everything. I wanted her to leave Tyler, to love me, to want to live here with me for the rest of our lives. I wanted so damn much. ”Just go back to sleep, then enjoy the rest of the day with the girls. I’ll be back tonight.” ”I’ll be waiting her for you.” Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath in and held it. if only she knew what she did to me. ↗

— Molly McAdams

#from-ashes #love #molly-mcadams #rest-of-our-lives #romance

You were twisting your wet hair up into a ponytail, and then you saw us, and you smiled...." "Then why didn't you-" "Because you were smiling for him. And I would have had to have been an idiot to get in between that. ↗

— Mandy Hubbard

#romantic #sacrifice #love

She prays to God, but He's silent. She searches for guidance, but the forest only moans. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#hare-moon #tabitha #love

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #jesus-shock #love

Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#crime-fiction #drama #e-l-james #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey

I’ve read about this in books, imagined it in my mind countless times since I’ve been here, but to actually witness it is something entirely different. I thought I was prepared, but nothing—no amount of book learning or supposed life experience or bravado—can make you invulnerable to the sight of a vampire drinking blood. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#corcitura #madelaine-bradburry #reality #revelations #stefan-belododia

Love couldn’t be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies—skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn’t deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#destiny #eternal-love #gavin-devereaux #love #resistance-trilogy

He rips his mouth from mine as he growls, "Mine. Only mine. Only. Ever. Mine," still slamming into me, pounding me against the wall. ↗

— Mia Sheridan

#love

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

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #the-mortal-instruments #love