#u

Her gaze met his, her blue eyes filled with confusion and terror – and love. If Julian hadn’t already been in love with her, that would have done it. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#romance #romantic-suspense #love

Swear to God, for someone so obsessed with music, she’s borderline tone deaf. But trying to describe how I felt watching her dance around and sing would be like trying to build a skyscraper with my bare hands. It made me want to marry her. Made me want to buy her a magic airplane and fly her away to a place where nothing bad could ever happen. Made me want to pour rubber cement all over my chest and then lay down on top of her so that we’d be stuck together, and so it would hurt like hell if we ever tried to tear ourselves apart. ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#hell #hurt #love #tear #love

I have something for you.” “Yeah? What? Is it shiny?” They both waited until Indigo had jogged away before resuming their conversation. “So,” Riley asked, “what have you got for me?” Taking his hand, she placed it palm-down over her heart. It would hurt like a bitch, she thought, but he was hers to protect as much as she was his. “Me.” And she opened up her soul, laid herself bare. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#mercy #riley #trust #love

Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate #magic-bleeds #saiman #love

God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#goodness #pain #suffering #trust #love

A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live ↗

— Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio

#ecosexuality #gaia #new-science #peace #polyamory

But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#love #music #love

I love you. You're my only reason to stay alive... if that's what I am. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#teen-idol #thatsaquote #love

Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be. “Why?” he said to his lover. “Because I want you for however long I have you. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#blay #qhuay #qhuinn-and-blay #saxton #love