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We all have skeletons in our closets. Some of us are just better at hiding them behind the hangers filled with clothes." "Yeah, right, you don't seem like the type of guy who has a pile of femur bones stuffed behind your collared shirts and navy blue blazers." Nick and Wilson ↗

— Gretchen de la O

#nick #wilson #young-adult #young-adult-romance #love

You are my star and you have made me see,” he tells her, “and I am the air beneath your wings, never rending, never ending. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#romance #romantic #sweet #love

We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier? ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love #vulnerability #love

The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined. ↗

— Blakney Francis

#love #romance #soul-mates #love

My Heart is Bounding! I can fly anywhere as long as I'm with the Nakama I Love!!!" ~Leevy ↗

— Hiro Mashima

#love

It's all right. Go ahead and admit you're in love with me, too. Let's get everything off our chests while we're at it." I swatted at him but he dodged away. 'You're not making me feel better." "Who said I was trying to make you feel better? Fact: Sam's got swagger. Fact: I'm straight. Fact: Even though I'm straight, I sorta love the dude. So I can't say I blame you." -pg. 166 ↗

— Jennifer Rush

#love

We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we’re faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart’s a stubborn organ. ↗

— Kim Harrington

#love #romance #want #love

I'm twenty years old,' said Laurent, 'and I've been the recipient of offers almost as long as I can remember.' 'Is that an answer?' said Damen. 'I'm not a virgin,' said Laurent. 'I wondered,' Damen said, carefully, 'if you reserved your love for women.' 'No, I--' Laurent sounded surprised. Then he seemed to realise that his surprise gave something fundamental away, and he looked away with a muttered breath; when he looked back at Damen there was a wry smile on his lips, but he said, steadily, 'No.' 'Have I said something to offend you? I didn't mean--' 'No. A plausible, benign and uncomplicated theory. Trust you to come up with it.' 'It's not my fault that no one in your country can think in a straight line,' said Damen, frowning a touch defensively. ↗

— S.U. Pacat

#damen #laurent #love

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness. ↗

— Amit Ray

#higher-consciousness #love #non-violence #nonviolence #love

Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance. ↗

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#erotica #love #relationships #romance #romance-love