#over

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind. ↗

— Al Green

#camera #could #everything #film #i

I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcry and whose arrival announces to men the season when fields are plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me, since other men posess my flourishing acres now, and not for me are the mules dragging the plow through the grainland, since I have given my heart to the restless seafarer's life. ↗

— Theognis

#lyrics #poetry #poverty #life

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#freedom #inspirational #living-life #freedom

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#facts #fame #knowing #love #poverty

Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#aphrodite #grover #hades #percy-jackson #posideon

abstraction, n. Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #love

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love

I want you to know...that you can trust me." John locked eyes with her and was instantly transported to a different plane of existence. Mighta been heaven again. Who the fuck knew or cared. All he knew was that there was only her and him together, the rest of the world drifting away into fog. Was it possible to fall in love with someone twice, he wondered dimly. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#jr-ward #lover-mine #xhex #love

The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#love-pain #lovers-breakup #lovers-quarrels #romantic-tragedy #love

I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me. ↗

— Helene Hanff

#love