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Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there’s no switch to turn off your heart. ↗

— J.C. Reed

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The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt. ↗

— Rainbow Rowell

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It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you. ↗

— Gerard Way

#i-love-you #love #mcr #my-chemical-romance #real

Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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A note, who writes a note like that? Who were you to write one to me? it boomed inside me the whole time, an explosion over and over, the joy of what you wrote to me jumpy shrapnel in my bloodstream. I can't have it near me anymore, I'm grenading it back to you, as soon as I unfold it and read it and cry one more time. Because me too, and fuck you. Even now. ↗

— Daniel Handler

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This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#happiness #happy #love #others #sacrifice

Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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If a tear fell from my eyes, Each time I wished you were with me, I would have an ocean shore outside my door. ↗

— Stacey Chillemi

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We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#christianity #god #religion #love