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If you don't love Jesus-go to hell! ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#love

What is between them is without blame. Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is. ↗

— karen moning

#love

Love does not deck the beloved in chains. It just is. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love

Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting. ↗

— Lady Murasaki Shikibu

#love #wisdom #inspirational

We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn’t believe in taking photographs; he planned to store his memories in his head, an idea I found incomprehensibly radical. My impulse to record was almost on par with my impulse to travel ↗

— Elisabeth Eaves

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We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#civilization #great-cities #love

Oh God", Nate dropped his head down on the arm of the couch next to Si. "Has my love life really been reduced to talking to my cat about this?" Si just licked his whiskers and waited for Nate to start talking. So he did... ↗

— Erin Shaw

#silly #talking-to-animals #love

There is no denying that Eros was now in love.He had fallen in love with his wife, Helen, more than 15 years ago, & that was why he married her.He had now fallen in love again with his new Secretary.And that was what was now driving him bonkers.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

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Hephaestus told Phyllis that she owed her name to the lovely girl whom Acamas left behind in Thrace after the Trojan War, promising to return.The poor girl waited in vain & out of desparation, hanged herself.The Goddess Nemesis took pity on the girl & turned her into a leafless almond tree.When Acamas at last returned,he was overcome with grief & embraced the tree which immediately sprouted green leaves, which gave the Greeks their word "phylla" meaning "green leaves" & all the botanists of the world their "phylla" words.Hephaestus also said that Vicky stood for Victory[Nike].[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#love

I love him as well. It's the same kind of love. But I can't say it. I won't be able to say it. ↗

— Tohru Tagura

#shounen-ai #love