#r

Love’? What do you know about love?” "It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble. ↗

— Jessica Day George

#the-lass #love

I can see why you like it here,'he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyles collection of movie posters and science fiction books."Theres a thin layer of nerd all over everything'said Jace "Thanks.I appreciate that."Simon gave Jace a hard look. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #jace-lightwood #humor

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself. ↗

— David Levithan

#gay #life #love #platonic-love #relationships

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#self-discovery #love

I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible... ↗

— Rachilde

#impossible #lust #passion #sex #love

I want to wake up ev­ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin­gers on my skin and your heart beat­ing mu­sic with mine. ↗

— Christine Zolendz

#heart #love #music #shane #love

Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin? ↗

— Solange nicole

#love #new-beginnings #philosophy #solange #love

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old? ↗

— Margaret Mead

#insight #psychology #love

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#greed #love #money #love

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#love