#ss

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#french #geese #led #profound #swans

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #love #peeta-mellark #smile #suzanne-collins

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #love

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fatal #forms #happiness #love #love is

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#love #missing #sadness #love

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#this-lullaby #love

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-and-peeta #katniss-everdeen #love #peeta-mellark #romance

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#loss #love #love

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#isaiat #kiss #love #mart #percy-jackson