#ok

What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a couple, had vanished and it was no use pretending, hoping, wishing that he would return to his old self, and me to mine. [p. 156] ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love

No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#romance #sob-story #story-of-the-broken-hearted #love

Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#love #the-best-man #love

Halfway back up the hillside, Cecilia reached behind her, and it seemed the most natural thing in the world for Brian to lean forward to take her hand. ↗

— T. Davis Bunn

#love #romance #the-book-of-hours #love

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#love

There was something she found intensely attractive about a man with a thirst for knowledge. Marc's obsessive love of books had been--she realized now--a huge part of his appeal.... ↗

— Martin Edwards

#books #knowledge #love

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#because #false #necessarily #nor #spoken

I won't let ignorance murder the people I love. ↗

— Melissa West

#gravity #the-taking-book-one #love

People hide the truth to protect those they love! ↗

— Craig Mercier

#hero #inpirational #philosphy #self-help #self-help-book

You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu ↗

— Kate Chisman

#broken-heart #broken-hearted #heartbreak #love #lust