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I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough. ↗

— Alisa Steinberg

#comic-fiction #fiction #humor #women-s-fiction #love

The book and I secret ourselves Behind the paneled door. We merge our thoughts in retrospect Of ancient mystic lore. We spend a pleasant quiet hour, Nor know it passed us by... The easy chair, the shaded lamp, A well-loved book and I. ↗

— Edna Moore Schultz

#reading #love

By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference. I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by, because a tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distateful to him. I was so fully aware that only serious moods and occupations were acceptable, that in his presence every effort to sustain or follow any other became vain: I fell under a freezing spell. When he said 'go', I went; 'come', I came; 'do this', I dit it. But I did not love my servitude [...]. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#servitude #love

...I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up a room by walking into it... ↗

— John Geddes

#musing #soul-mate #the-one #love

I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss, more than an embrace. I was starting to discover that it is not only the mind that understands love, but also the body. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#kiss #love #sweet #love

I had a sense of your presence constantly. ↗

— Michael Kelahan

#presence #love

...nothing has humbled me so much as your love. Right or wrong it may be, but true it is, and I tell you. Your love has been to me like God's own love, which makes the receivers of it kneelers. ↗

— Michael Kelahan

#love #right-or-wrong #love

Sir, don’t make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today . . . just pray for rapture. ↗

— Jevon L. Mack

#dance #erotica #gay-romance #jevon-l-mack #love

Don't fool yourself that they don't know. You might not admit that the sun exists, but it exists anyway. ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#love

Balsa seemed invincible, endowed with powers no other warrior could match, but in her profile he could glimpse the shadow of a young girl, hurt and buffeted by a cruel and hopeless fate. If he had never experienced what it was like to be at the mercy of fate himself, he would not have noticed, but now he could see it with unbearable, heartrending clarity. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#girl-warrior #love-hurts #mercy-of-fate #strong-women #women-s-strength