#v

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#farewell #noir #velma #love

but nothing i ever gave was good for you; it was like white bread to goldfish. they cram and cram, and it kills them, and they drift in the pool, belly-up, making stunned faces and playing on our guilt as if their own toxic gluttony was not their own fault there you are, still outside the window, still with your hands out, still pallid and fish-eyed, still acting stupidly innocent and starved. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#goldfish #love #starved #love

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#austere #disfavor #gambling #known #looks

After all this time?" "Always... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#absolutely #accepting #every #feel #happiest

... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I simply can't bear those showerings of sentimentality. Otherwise I should most likely have married him ages ago. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#marriage #age

Jane!" cried he softly, moving closer. "All these long months that we have been apart, even believing it to be impossible, it is of you alone that I have thought and planned. You are my heart ; you pierce my soul. ↗

— Syrie James

#love

I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone. ↗

— Ted Michael

#loneliness #love

If all the days and nights in the world were to cease to be, I still hold that we were meant to meet and to love and to know the pain of violent disillusion. ↗

— Syrie James

#love

Choose friends who are positive and loving. ↗

— Bella Sara

#love