#to

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love... ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#love-life #love-story #life

If you look at another woman, I’ll rip your eyes out. Touch one and I’ll cut off your hands. Kiss her and I’ll sever your tongue from your mouth. “You don’t want to know what I’ll do if I find out your dick got anywhere near another woman. So the choice is yours, you can live life as a blind, mute eunuch with stubs at the end of your arms or you can close the club... ↗

— Jenny Penn

#life

Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#people-today #settling #life

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#entitled-in-love #love-story #toxic #life

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#stories #love

Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey--and returned. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#characters #classic #reality #storytelling #life

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor. ↗

— Sally Armstrong

#adventure-romance #adventuresome-women #canadian #historical #native-american

You should be living your life like a cavalry charge, or at least writing about it." Robert Knight in 'Hoofing It ↗

— Ian M Pindar

#life

There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#resonating #running #togetherness #life

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything--at which point, the process would start all over. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#cleaning #nature-of-things #toys #life