#ra

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #restraint #rules #love

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you. ↗

— L.V. Lewis

#contemporary-romance #erotic-romance #interracial-romance #parody #love

Logan ran a hand through his hair as he tried to calm his racing heart. He wanted her on the most basic level that a man could want a woman, but it was so much more than that. It wasn’t just about sex and the need to be inside her so badly it hurt—it was all the other stuff to. The need to matter. The need to be selfless. The need to love. ↗

— Juliana Stone

#juliana-stone #offside #love

Someday Time will die, and Love will bury it ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#richard-brautigan #time #love

How very scared I was of everything, and in the end how very scared I was of her. This woman I knew, and did not know, and loved. ↗

— James Christie

#autism #buffy-the-vampire-slayer #drusilla #juliet-landau #rain-man

To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#angels #fantasy #fiction #kreitzer #paranormal-romance

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#love #relationships #love

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#love

Nick‘s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the Twilight Zone? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#paranormal-fiction #young-adult-fiction #humor

She shuddered. “Oh, no. I hate chocolate.” Will looked horrified. “What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #will-herondale #humor