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I had to accept the fact that bad things happen. It’s out of our control and I know it hurts like hell but you learn to move on. Yes, the pain never fades and it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do but eventually you learn to breathe again. ↗

— J.C. McClean

#life #love #life

She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#nurture #self-love #self-loving #love

I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#love #love

I tucked the Camel coupon from his cigarette pack into my pocket. A souvenir of the moment where he said maybe. I would hold on to his maybe for as long as it would take, even forever. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#first-love #forever #love #maybe #young-love

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#love-of-god #love

Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose? ↗

— Ally Condie

#romance #love

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#narrative #poetry #reading-books #writers #love

And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#love #love

What do any of us really know about love? ↗

— Raymond Carver

#love

From the cradle to the grave, all I want is you. ↗

— Emma Bryienstein

#feelings #love #love