#ya

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan) Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism. ↗

— The Poet Archibald MacLeish

#fanatical-desire #wanton-lust #love

I hate seeing people going back to the same person who hurt them a million times!!! ↗

— Manasa Rao

#love #sadness #love

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905 ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#gothic #gwenn-wright #love #relationships #romance

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#eugenides #love #marriage #royalty #love

Marriage is not easy, I thought to myself. It’s not supposed to be easy. It’s two different people, from two different backgrounds, trying to build a life together for better or worse. It’s something you have to work at every single day. There are going to be hard times and those are the times you are supposed to fight like hell. ↗

— Courtney Giardina

#ebook #heartache #kindle #love #marriage

Love For All; Hatred for None ↗

— Mirza Nasir Ahmad

#inspirational-love #inspirational

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place. ↗

— John Buchan

#fortitude #knives #loyalty #men #murder

It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#history #ya #beauty

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ? ↗

— Yasmin Ahmad

#change #film #film-director #love #malay

What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail? ↗

— Kya Aliana

#kya-aliana #life #love #motivational #quote