#lovers

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#car #cities #damned #forget #friends

...You should make someone a wonderful husband." Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw and looked directly into her eyes. "I suppose I would," he said. "Are you interested? ↗

— Bruce Coville

#humor #lovers-quarrels #marriage #marriage

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. ↗

— John Cheever

#case #damned #despair #guided #inspired

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#like #lovers #married #thing

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? ↗

— Marc Webb

#i #just #kind #know #like

When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage. And so I did. Sophie Lenon ↗

— Krystal McLean

#broken-heart #dark #hope #lovers #romance

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#bear #could #desert #desert island #her

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#brave #follow #lovers #star #young

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#each #lovers #other #over #period

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#adultery #after #allow #between #consequently