#tar

It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye. ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#evil #night #omen #ominous #star

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #military #love

For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. ↗

— Plutarch

#lives #plutarch #story-telling #life

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul ↗

— Victor Hugo

#soul #stars #love

Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season. ↗

— Jerry Orbach

#end #gonna #i #july #know

I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#stars #truth #love

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. ↗

— Amy Tan

#heavens #star #love

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #stars #strangers #victor-hugo #love

And I don't just WANT you, Helen. I LOVE you. Big difference. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#josephine-angelini #lucas-delos #starcrossed #love

I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#love #sad #love