#roma

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two. ↗

— Catullus

#neoteric-poetry #roman-poetry #love

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#love

The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude. ↗

— Kelly Moran

#love-quotes #romance #true-love #love

The image of him frozen to the spot in the pouring rain would be etched into my memory forever. ↗

— Karli Perrin

#love #na #romance #love

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. ↗

— Louise Brown

#bought #decided #fiction #figured #formula

When you want something you can’t have, it’s like a strong magnet. It can come to control you. ↗

— Geraldine Solon

#relationships #romance #women #love

This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you. ↗

— Leigh Fallon

#romance #love

I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#romance #love

Hey, Max," I whispered. "I love you, too." The smile that lit up his face was brighter than the neon lights radiating from the London Eye. But mine felt even brighter. Like my future. ↗

— Cassidy Calloway

#romance #secrets-of-a-first-daughter #love

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. ↗

— Jane Austen

#blindness #denial #folly #love #refusal