#old

I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#holding-on #letting-go #lost-love #love #love-and-loss

One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words! ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#land-of-the-blindfolded #life

They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.  Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished. ↗

— Guillaume Musso

#starting-over #love

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold. ↗

— Anne Michaels

#love #melting #stars #love

Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#maester-aemon #old #dreams

I’m willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#aging #death #die #life #lifespan

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#bible-interpretation #golden-rule #love #scriptures #love

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. ↗

— George Burns

#cigar #holder #i #just #now

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#being #eighties #gay #interesting #like

If your going to be a jackass then do it outside of your home, as your home is supposed to be a place of love and safety, it's your sanctuary from the outside world. The only place where we can truly be accepted. ↗

— Lisa Marie Main

#binding #love-soul-mates #old-enemies #wars #witches