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He tucks his hands on the back of my head and rests his mouth on my forehead. I close my eyes. “I could stand here forever,” he says. “In this place? This oh-so-classy motel room?” “That’s the thing. It don’t matter where. ↗

— Kristin Halbrook

#places #romance #love

It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia] ↗

— Simon Pegg

#pastries #princess-leia #star-wars #love

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#karma #parenthood #wrath #love

But why all these questions? Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering. Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#pain #suffering #love

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself. ↗

— John Knowles

#love

Everyone needs a superhero to champion them now and again, to rush to their aid when there's a fierce dragon approaching, a massive army attacking or a scary catacomb to navigate ↗

— Richard Templar

#relationships-love #love

He left her a note in her right slipper that said when I was alone yesterday I was happy, and I wanted you to know. Because look at how much you've done in me. ↗

— Mikl Paul

#poetry #prose-poetry #love

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#kindness #love #priest #love

What this world needs is a new kind of army...A army of LOVE & KINDNESS :) ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #love

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#diary #love #mark-darcy #relationship #love