#ado

How can one love the light and live in darkness? ↗

— Brent Weeks

#count-drake #night-angel #the-way-of-shadows #love

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fiction #love #shadowhunters #vampires #love

Why they think everyone should be alike in making love when no one can even agree on what ice cream they like, I'll never know from Dark Citadel ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#love

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#christ #deep-love #heart #love #the-love-of-christ

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#flipped #love #young #love

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#growing-up #love #parenthood #love

Well hell. Her heart was melting and she'd never get the fickle organ back to a normal shape again. ↗

— Dianna Love

#love

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being? ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#love #shadows #love

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#love

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship... ↗

— John Geddes

#fascination #love #mystery #wonder #worship