#air

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fairy-tale #magical-realism #realism #art

Christ! What are patterns for? ↗

— Amy Lowell

#love #war #love

Anyone have some mints or some gum?" Bonnie asked. No one did, and she turned to Joe Hill Conley. She scrutinized him a moment, then, using her fingers, combed his part over to the left side. "That looks better," she said. Nearly two decades later, the little hair he has left remains parted by Bonnie's invisible hand. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#love #love

Love doesn’t play fair,” Tony lamented. “Perhaps we do not understand the game,” Aiden responded. ↗

— Ben Tousey

#love #play-fair #love

Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him. "You looked like you needed some help." Hadley just stares at him. "And this way it's perfectly legal," he adds with a grin. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#cute #perfectly-legal #love

Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted ↗

— Amit Abraham

#love #pollution #love

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it. ↗

— H. A. Lamb

#fantasy-fiction #love

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life. ↗

— Alethea Kontis

#enchanted #fairy-tales #love #love

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #marriage #women #love

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#broken #build #children #easier #repair