#tory

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun. ↗

— Robin Black

#short-story #love

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#fear #life #love #risk #story

No one can force you to become a monster – you hurt someone and you create your own demons. ↗

— Melody Manful

#guardian-angels #love-story #melody-manful #paranormal #romance

Lust fades after climax, love lasts until breakfast! ↗

— Tom Conrad

#love #love-story #lovers #lust #romance

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home ↗

— David Levithan

#love-story #love

As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#lovers #romance-novels #young-adult #young-adult-novels #young-love

Everything you do is connected to who you are as a person and, in turn, creates the person you are becoming. Everything you do affects those you love. All of life is covenant. Imbedded in the idea of prayer is a richly textured view of the world where all of life is organized around invisible bonds or covenants that knit us together. Instead of a fixed world, we live in our Father's world, a world built for divine relationships between people where, because of the Good News, tragedies become comedies and hope is born. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#god #hope #prayer #story #life

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#history #love #time #love

Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there’s no switch to turn off your heart. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#relationship #romance #story #love

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#prayer #story #life