#ss

Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?” Christabel LaMotte: “Ah, how can we bear it?” Randolph Henry Ash: “Bear what?” Christabel LaMotte: “This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?” Randolph Henry Ash: “We can be quiet together, and pretend – since it is only the beginning – that we have all the time in the world.” Christabel LaMotte: “And every day we shall have less. And then none.” Randolph Henry Ash: “Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?” Christabel LaMotte: “No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#togetherness #love

Fermina Daza había rechazado a Florentino Ariza en un destello de madurez que pagó de inmediato con una crisis de lástima, pero nunca dudó de que su decisión había sido certera. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#pain #relationship #sadness #split #love

If you say you can't, you won't! The only thing holding you back from success is yourself. ↗

— Jody Provost

#life-philosophy #love #success #love

His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous. ↗

— Maryam Schonbeck

#impossible #love #young-adults #love

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#love

I kept reaching for my muses, my wandering muses, floating on clouds filled with their passions.” (Muses of Wandering Passions, p. 64) ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#life #love #muses #passion #understanding

When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops. ↗

— Jo Treggiari

#fierce-ink-press #memoir #love

What I know of love is satisfaction, Contentment, pleasure, and vivaciousness. But all my envisions were all fictions. 'Cause there's no such thing as pure happiness. ↗

— Eli Emmanuel N. Libuit

#love

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#wickedness #love

True happiness is always self-forgetful: it loses itself in the object of its joy. As the joy of the Holy Ghost fills us, and we rejoice in God the Holy One, through our Lord Jesus Christ. [. . .] Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the joy of God. ‘The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#happiness #holy-in-christ #joy #love