Tag: love
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
Oscar Wilde
He was my best friend. […] And now we’re like strangers. I’ll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.
Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You (via booksqouted)
“I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?
Mal, Inception
“…there’s nothing like a kiss long and hot down to your soul…”
— James Joyce, from The Complete Works; “Ulysses,” (edited excerpt)
“There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detatched, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
— Daphne DuMaurier
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That’s living.
Zora Neale Hurston
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