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Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#relationships #sacrifices #love

Downy feathers kiss your face and flutter everywhere. Reality is a lovely place but I wouldn’t want to live there. ↗

— Owl City

#the-real-world #love

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it. ↗

— James Baldwin

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The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#love-story #misunderstandings #sad-love #tragic #love

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#peace-making #peacemaking #social-justice #love

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved. ↗

— Dai Sijie

#love #love

If it's the beaches If it's the beaches' sands you want then you will have them If it's the mountains' bending rivers then you will have them If it's the wish to run away Then I will grant it ↗

— Avett Brothers

#love #running-away #wishes #love

Don't die to see me, live to love me. ↗

— Jeff Hardy

#jeff-hardy #love

Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran." "Yesterday you said you loved them." "Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I never saw one till now. I love them more than I can say." Bran made a face at her. "But you just said you hated them." "Why can't it be both?" Meera reached up to pinch his nose. "Because they're different," he insisted. "Like night and day, or ice and fire." "If ice can burn," said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate. Mountain or marsh, it makes no matter. The land is one." "One," his sister agreed, "but over wrinkled. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#asoiaf #fantasy #grrm #love

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on? ↗

— Bram Stoker

#love #love