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Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #love #romance #love

My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach. ↗

— Lisa Greenwald

#vacation #family

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#fantasy-fiction #robert-jordan #service #wheel-of-time #family

What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#reading #love

While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#family

Johanna sat by the fire every night and worked on her tapestry. Dumfries waited until she was settled in her chair and then draped himself across her feet. It became a ritual for Alex to squeeze himself up next to her and fall asleep during her stories about fierce warriors and fair maidens. Johanna's tales all had a unique twist, for none of the heroines she told stories about ever needed to be rescued by their knights in shining armor. More often than not, the fair maidens rescued their knights. Gabriel couldn't take issue with his wife. She was telling Alex the truth. It was a fact that maidens could rescue mighty, arrogant warriors. Johanna had certainly rescued him from a bleak, cold existence. She'd given him a family and a home. She was his love, his joy, his companion. She was his saving grace. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#love #family

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself. ↗

— Amy Denise

#hardship #love #military #romance #tragedy

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#assumed #because #black #children #feminist

I'm sorry." "Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose #spirit-bound #love

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story. ↗

— Kevin Sorbo

#everybody #happen #happened #i #learned