#crush

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #sadness #love

she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#crush #dreams

How do you make yourself not like someone? ↗

— Louise Rennison

#gpoy #life #life

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#fall #first #grope #love #mark

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#crushed #fragrance #heel #sheds #violet

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. ↗

— Waverley Lewis Root

#destiny #mint

Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#kiss #kisses #kissing #love #relationships

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#annihilate #been #capacity #colored #common

...his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes.. ↗

— James Joyce

#wonderful-imagery #dreams