#ow

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive. ↗

— Ruth Harris

#decades #love #power #triangle #love

... but remember that I shall love your sorrow... ↗

— Cordwainer Smith

#sorrow #love

Oh there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come. ↗

— Richard Llewellyn

#love

People don't love each other in the same way. ↗

— Toba Beta

#own-way #love

Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman? ↗

— Brian Ruckley

#power #war #love

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of our being? ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#love #shadows #love

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#man #power #wise #love

It was difficult being so far away from everything she loved. But here, she had Edward and Alice and her work. And now it seems she might have a cowboy to follow around. “A cowboy? I'm a city girl… What will I do with a cowboy?” Then her thoughts drifted back to the cowboy who sauntered in like he owned Tucson. ↗

— Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

#mary-j-mccoy-dressel #western-romance #love

An adamant silence overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of an indefinable unknown, unconsciously desired. ↗

— Carl Henegan

#heart #love #silence #unknown #love

When someone loves you they don't have to say it; you can tell by the way they treat you. ↗

— Carson Kolhoff

#love