#u

I love your independence, I love that you don't swoon, I love that you'll fight me with your last breath if you think I'm wrong, and if I ever have to catch you, I swear I'll make sure you're standing on your feet as quickly as you can manage it. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#independence #independent-heroine #love #romance #love

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. ↗

— George Steiner

#noise #something #terribly #wrong

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#maturity #wisdom #youth #love

One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words! ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#land-of-the-blindfolded #life

The average adult blue whale has a heart that weighs more than 2,000 pounds… but still, it couldn’t love you as much as I do. ↗

— pon and zi

#heart #love #love

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America. ↗

— Stephen King

#high-school #young-love #love

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours. ↗

— Truman Capote

#love

I would only blame myself if something happened to you. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#guilt #love #love

And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her. ↗

— Maya Banks

#maya-banks #rush #love

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. ↗

— Stendhal

#his #interests #own #persuade #same