#v

Nyla, he breathed, hoping not to wake her but also hoping that she would open her eyes. She didn't. She simply smiled and whispered, "Jamison, I'd like you to be the first to know that I love you." His heart convulsed. She had finally said it. ↗

— Mia Castile

#happiness #love #love

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#love #love

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind. ↗

— Alexander Strauch

#knowledge #love #love

Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up. ↗

— Alexander Strauch

#love

Jivan: You think when you have love that love is easy to find, that everyone has it. It's not true. It's very hard to find. Nedra: I haven't been looking for it. Jivan: It's like a tree...It takes a long time to grow. It has roots very deep, and these roots stretch out a long way, farther than you know. You can't cut it, just like that. ↗

— James Salter

#love #love

I shrug. You're a part of me, Olivia. Anything that involves you is always about us. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#love

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiting for finally emerged. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#heartbreak #love #love

No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to Hope. They happened to Sky. They happened to the best friend that I loved all those years ago, and they happened to the best friend I love who’s looking back at me right now. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#holder #hope #hopeless #love #molestation

We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I'd wanted all afternoon, all evening, every sec of every minute with you, Ed. Shit, I guess I already loved you then. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#heartbreak #love #love

But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#love #naive #paranormal-romance #young-adult #young-love