#r

And after all this time that you still owe, you're still a good-for nothing I don't know. ↗

— Gerard Way

#mcr #love

Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—” The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. “I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#betrayal #cinder #love #marissa-meyer #prince-kai

There was a large sting near his upper lip. I touched it lightly. “Does it hurt?” My gaze moved from his lips up to his eyes. He was looking at me in a way that made me blush. “Yes,” he responded quietly. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#romance #love

You're not celibate, then?" I breathe. Amusement lights up his eyes. "No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate. ↗

— E.L. James

#anastasia #anastasia-steele #celibate #christian #christian-grey

We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will? ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#sisterhood #woman-s-strength #women #love

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spiritual #love

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#indifference #love #love

I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay? ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#secrets #love

Will you tell me again?" he asked, almost shyly. "Will you tell me what I am?" "You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. "I'm in love with an angel. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#lucinda-price #love