#p

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#poetry #age

We remember though all the firelit glow Of a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy face And the love that was written there. ↗

— Caris Brooke

#firelight #fireplace #happiness #love #poetry

You know this isn't right. You know you aren't supposed to be with him. If you do this with him...if you continue to fall in love with him...I will die. ↗

— Jordan Deen

#love

These fragments I have shored against my ruins ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#aging #fall #nostalgia #past #age

His smiling face revealed a love too strong to be kept inside, but the feelings obviously rising inside him kept him from looking directly at Kikunojou. He gazed instead at Kikunojou's clear reflection on the water. ↗

— Haruo Shirane

#chris-drake #hiraga-gennai #japanese #love #romance

I didn't want them to discuss how lovely my wife was, I wanted them to go out and search for my fucking wife. I didn't say this out loud, though; I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#love

It wasn't the "I love you" she heard that made her let him go. It was the "Come with me" that she didn't. ↗

— Meghan O'Connor

#heartbreak #relationships #tragedy #love

I snorted powdered flamingoes while I pondered love. I sat at the bar two hours waiting for my ice on the rocks to melt so I could drink it and leave, but it was like my ex wife’s heart—it was just too frigid to melt. So I called up a midget, buckled myself in on his back, and had him give me a ride home. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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— Jarod Kintz

#bar #drink #ex-wife #flamingoes #frigid

Love is the most complex of all emotions. Hate is clean and uncomplicated, but love will turn you inside out and when it goes awry you’re left wondering what you did wrong. You always blame yourself even though the only wrong you’ve done is to give your heart to someone who was not part of your plan. ↗

— Cupid

#love

Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good. ↗

— Lora Leigh

#maverick #ops #rissa #love