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All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing. ↗

— P.D. James

#murder #pd-james #the-murder-room #love

Feel within, the pure and unconditional Love and embrace all. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#feel #pure #unconditional-love #within #love

Quisiera darte todo lo que nunca hubieras tenido, y ni así sabrías la maravilla que es poder quererte ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#love

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance. ↗

— Malorie Blackman

#love #sadness #love

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#lust #pleasure #love

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagination #invention #life #truths #imagination

You say you don't see any part of me. To love in all this mess and I know. You take the good and all the bad that comes with me. ↗

— Sara Quin

#so-jealous #take-me-anywhere #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #love

I love you so, honey. I love you too, money. ↗

— Toba Beta

#love #money-talks #love

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#desire #love #love

The man lived like a monk. And made love like a sinner. ↗

— Cindy Gerard

#love