#woo

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door? ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#love

Tell me you do not feel as I do and I will leave you and you may be with another. ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#swoon-worthy #love

I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#love #swoon-worthy #love

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

In my sleepiness I heard him whisper, "I'm in love with you. ↗

— Jessica Roberts

#swoon #love

Love's a funny thing, especially with a man who gets paid to put junk in other people's slots. (The Mail Man) ↗

— Andrew Sturm

#inspirational #kirkwood #life-lessons #project #inspirational

Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #magnus-bane #maryse-lightwood #men

But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#topography #woman #woodsman #men

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beat #early-stories-and-other-writings #jack-kerouac #optimist #prose-poetry

God gives gifts to and also of men/women for His purposes in promoting the cause of Christ and His Kingdom". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #men