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Come on Princess," he sighs, as he scoops me up off the sand and carries me to my room. "I'm not going to be able to sleep, unless I know you're safe. ↗

— Jillian Dodd

#love-story #romantic #love

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#nature #paradise #love

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way. ↗

— David Cook

#love

I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic. ↗

— Sue William Silverman

#alcohol #love #sex #love

I am Devlin, brother and advisor to the High Queen, assassin, and keeper of order. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#melissa-marr #radiant-shadows #wicked-lovely #love

How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit up by fireworks, but an ordinary Sunday morning when your husband brought you a glass of water, two aspirins, and a heating pad for your cramps? ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#love

When he reached her, he touched a hand to her face. Smiled. "Important. That's one word. Everything. That's another. Loved," he said, adding the most important word of all. "God, Darcy, you are so loved. ↗

— Cindy Gerard

#romance #romantic-suspense #love

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love #love

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#othello #shakespeare #love

Dear Jack, I love you, too. And I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage— just choose someone you can't live without. For me, that would be you. So if you insist on being traditional . . . Yes. —Ella ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#jack-travis #love