#on

i must feel this emotion with my whole being and as it sweeps me off my feet enjoy the sensation of falling falling endlessly into the arms of no lover ↗

— Nirmala

#nirmala #love

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#acceptance-of-others #love #lovers-quarrel #relationship #self-acceptance

As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world? ↗

— Alix Ohlin

#love

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there. ↗

— Valerie Frankel

#relationship #love

Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#protection #segregation #love

I need bruschetta (that's "broo-SKET-uh," not "brushetter," a slender piece of ciabatta toasted and brushed with garlic and oil and covered in fresh tomato and basil-- the chunks inevitably fall off the bread and the olive oil runs over your lips and down your chin. The whole thing is delicious, deeply physical and delightfully undignified, and a woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that) ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#love

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dagny-taggart #love #love

One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year. ↗

— Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards

#consistency #effort #journey #joy #perseverance

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb. ↗

— Conrad Aiken

#coitus #fireflies #intercourse #lamb #limb

I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop. ↗

— Sy Montgomery

#humor #pigs #sy-mongomery #humor