#y

I doona need drugs. I am naturally a mean bastard. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#kerrelyn-sparks #love-at-stake #love

Be me a little. ↗

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

#love #love

Wolf, not dog. You were bitten by a Lycan, not Lassie. ↗

— Shannan Albright

#lycans #paranormal-romance #urban-fantasy #vampires #urban-fantasy

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #men #patriarchy #relationships #love

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it... ↗

— Megan Johns

#contemporary-romance #innocence #love #romance #women-s-fiction

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#the-lovely-bones #love

I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#meredith-gentry #love

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #love

In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home. ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #home