#so

Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#seasons #love

It's not worth losing your soul to win a guy. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#give-up #love #soul #love

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#citizen #continue #else #every #fulfillment

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations. ↗

— Renate Linnenkoper

#men #philosophy #relationships #love

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#comes #dare #fully #her #his

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#isolation #loneliness #personality #solitude #love

This is the last time i shall love you, because you have broken me, no more chances, no more reasons. No.More.Lies. ↗

— Izicain

#last-love #lies #no-reason #love

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#drinking #forget #forgetting #love #personality

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. ↗

— George Steiner

#noise #something #terribly #wrong

If you really love someone, you shouldn’t be scared of losing, since real love is not having but wanting happy. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#real-love #love