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And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids. ↗

— I Ching

#love #understand #love

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves. ↗

— Imam Ahmad

#religion #steadfastness #love

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#poetry #love

As we made love, our scars met, grazing long enough for mine to say “He tries to hide me,” and for yours to reply “I know I embarrass her.” “He never learned how to swim,” whispered my scar. “She got picked last in gym class, then cried into her pillow,” replied yours. Just then, a huge wound opened in me. You touched it. It closed. I was filled, fully healed, and I knew I would never be able not to love you. ↗

— Tom C. Hunley

#love

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#love

She had to kill him. She had to kill Beckett the next time she saw him or all she’d done to become an exquisite monster would be for nothing. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#love #poughkeepsie #love

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering. ↗

— Samuel R. Delany

#love #suffering #love

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug ↗

— Lynsay Sands

#love

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woman - to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life. ↗

— Lisa See

#life

He waits. "And I think that is what I would like love to be. Leaving room for each other, knowing that not every step is going to be side by side. Giving more than taking. Waiting. Trusting, ↗

— Amy Garvey

#love