#ss

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#came #carried #case #casualties #comes

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dissatisfaction #drama-queen #self-delusion #unhappiness #love

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock! ↗

— Deeba Salim Irfan

#fiction-novel #loss #love #love-hurts #tears

..there isn't a single goddamned word in the entire dictionary that can describe this point between liking you and loving you, but i need that word. I need it because I need you to hear me say it. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#hopeless #love

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain... ↗

— John Geddes

#healing #love #peace #rain #love

They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#love

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us... ↗

— Kate Chisman

#crying #fear #fright #frightened #ghost

Are you laughing at me?” I squawk. I laugh, too, my voice sounds so strained. Will’s laughter picks up even more. “I can’t help it. You make me happy. ↗

— Kristin Halbrook

#love #love

Not loving you isn’t possible. Trust me, I tried. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#love

...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon... ↗

— John Geddes

#fear #love #moon #shyness #love