#si

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible. ↗

— Joseph O'Neill

#true #life

Seule ma peine est ma propriété: Larmes, sueurs et le plus dur effort. Je ne suis plus qu'un objet de pitié Sinon de honte aux yeux d'un monde fort. ↗

— Paul Éluard

#love

...we can love someone without understanding that person. ↗

— Dorothy Rowe

#love

You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo. ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#longing #love #relationship #love

As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat. ↗

— Isabella Kruger

#love-at-first-sight #love

Jessica..." The sound of his voice saying my name soothed me, and it's all I wanted to hear him say. Just my name, over and over and over again in his buttery baritone. I wanted my name to be his mantra, the word he meditated on, his tool for finding calm in the world. But he kept on talking. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#jessica-darling #love #marcus-flutie #love

The lesson of the Funk Dog: “You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten—or just a low-grad funk—seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don’t believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks. ↗

— Jill Conner Browne

#funk #life #life

The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward. ↗

— Alison MacLeod

#love #love

Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalist’s brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place. He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now. ↗

— Marcus Sedgwick

#love

Frickin' hit me with the speeding car, now. Take away my intense craving to force myself against him and taste his lips. ↗

— Gretchen de la O

#kissing-quotes #love #romance #wilson #young-adult-romance