#or

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#christ #deep-love #heart #love #the-love-of-christ

When Thad began nuzzling her neck, pressing his opened lips against her, she smacked him in the back of the head. "Don't go vamp on me now!" "Whaa!" He shot upright, his fangs sharp. "Where am I?" She glanced at his fangs, then down. "Oh, my gods, when do you not sport wood? There are bathrooms in the back, so go burp the worm or whatever. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#berserker #declan-chase #dreams-of-a-dark-warrior #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere? ↗

— Elif Shafak

#misery #sadness #world #love

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#story #storytelling #dreams

...you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." - Mr. Darcy ↗

— Jane Austen

#love

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#flipped #love #young #love

No one said finding Paris would be easy; I only said it would be worth it. ↗

— Con.Template

#kwon-taehyun #love #paris #underworld- #love

If she’d ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared...that was different. He’d done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#claire-danvers #love #morganville #love

Love is not all you need. I need time… a lot of it. Love won’t help me forget. It was the reason why I’m like this. It was all the reason behind this pain I am feeling. Because. Of. Love. ↗

— Kristine Cuevas

#hate #love #novella #romance #short-story

Once you love something, you always love it in someway. You have to. it's like, part of you for good. ↗

— Sarah Dessen What Happened to Goodbye

#love #stciks-with-you-for-good #teen #love