#sm

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532 ↗

— Anne Rice

#vampirism #love

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#critics #love #love

Smitty gave his best pout. “Why are y’all trying to hurt me?” “Because it’s fun?” “It’s easy.” “I love it when you cry.” Smitty sighed. “Forget I asked. ↗

— Shelly Laurenston

#ronnie-lee #sissy #smitty #love

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. ↗

— Sam Vaknin

#narcissists #love

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#religion #faith

People love escapism and there should be a place for it. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#love

You’re doing it again,” he said. “Doing what?” I asked, wondering if I had done something wrong. “Melting my heart with your smile,” he said. ↗

— Mary Ting

#claudia #love #michael #smile #love

You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#love

Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism. ↗

— John Holloway

#solidarity #friendship

I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love, ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#love