#on

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #lovers-quarrels #passion #precariousness #volatility

And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heart—knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. ↗

— J.L. Carr

#melancholy #wisdom #love

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#forgotten #hollow #loneliness #love

I meant I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#love

Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon ↗

— Naoko Takeuchi

#love

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting. ↗

— Graham Swift

#life #love #nostalgia #time #inspirational

So often the woman forgets her own greatness and she goes a little bat sh-- crazy sometimes. So its up to the other half to love that person back into the person we know them to be. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#sincerity #song-meaning #love

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. ↗

— Kazuo Koike

#fatherhood #love #son #love

Madness, and then illumination. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#science

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#science-fiction #science