#ss

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#dreams #reality #dreams

Love is symbiotic, so it's mutually advantageous to keep your lips locked. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #love

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again? ↗

— Dee Remy

#insanity #loss #love #madness #mind-body-spirit

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#assume #automatically #certain #costume #dramas

But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#mysogyny #possession #sex #love

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days. ↗

— Holly Robinson

#glass-ceiling #women #writing #love

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#passion #love

We remember though all the firelit glow Of a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy face And the love that was written there. ↗

— Caris Brooke

#firelight #fireplace #happiness #love #poetry

Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good. ↗

— Lora Leigh

#maverick #ops #rissa #love

It was a little awkward walking behind his mom when, about eight hours ago, I had been rolling around on the floor with her son with my shirt pulled halfway up my back. ↗

— Katie Kacvinsky

#love #love