#oman

Your heart is beating so fast,” he said softly, the words barely more than a whisper. “I can feel your blood humming under my hand. Are you frightened of me? ↗

— Zoë Marriott

#love #romance #love

Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#love #lovers #restrictions #romance #rules

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#hero #romance #business

In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to be. ↗

— Diana Peterfreund

#love #romance #change

Don't give in, Alex, don't let them win. You beat them once and you can do it again. Don't let this place break you. Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you're doing things, then you still exist, right? ↗

— Alexander Gordon Smith

#bromance #friendship #inspirational #business

Maybe kids are the only ones capable of love. As good as it gets, before you get all fucked-up. ↗

— Katey Hawthorne

#romance #love

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you. ↗

— Stephanie Laurens

#dream #longing #love #need #romance

... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing. ↗

— Jean Webster

#romance #dreams

Before I succumbed to the sweet lull of his voice, I made one last request. "Stay". I was asleep before he could answer, but in my dreams I heard him reply forever. ↗

— S.L. Naeole

#dreams

I was seeing the world for what it truly was—life and death irrevocably forged to one another for all of time. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#death