#or

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#love

Strano come certi ridicoli rituali appaiano perfettamente sensati quando si è innamorati. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#feelings #love-story #romance #love

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#death #deliberately #i #intent #morphine

Myself, I've always been organized in waves. For months on end, slowly descending into disorder, I drift with the status quo. Then I wake up one morning with a sudden compulsion to color-code my socks or stack them vertically. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt. ↗

— Steven B. Weissman

#historical-romance #love

All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess) ↗

— Blanche Bachelar

#generation #love #paris #psychology #romance

But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that. ↗

— Sophie Jordan

#jacinda-jones #love #sophie-jordan #sweet #will-and-jacinda

God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#god #hope #love #love

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#better #down #go #hear #him

El amor y el aprecio perfectamente se pueden demostrar con un pastel de queso, con terneras, zapatos, té, buenos días o qué tengo en el ojo; si el cariño sólo se pudiera demostrar con poemas, flores y anillos, bien poco sería el amor. ↗

— José C. Vales

#love #love