#or

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#corresponding #disadvantage #every

So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #possessiveness #love

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#luke-garroway #mortal-instruments #simon-lewis #love

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :) ↗

— Taylor Swift

#loving #taylor-swift #true #love

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#children #enjoy #future #neither #nor

Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all? Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, ...'Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lived lives just like it. So it's true anyway. ↗

— Ally Condie

#myths #real #sisyphus #stories #truth

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#authors #books #heroine #love #stories

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#grief #loss #mourning #tragedy #war

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both. ↗

— Sarah Kay

#choice #love #worst #you #love

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#cristy-anne #lesbian #lgbtq #love #queer-youth