#sweet

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#brightest #fade #lost #made #must

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#half #life #love #nothing #sweet

And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#cammon #romantic #sweet #romantic

Noah held my hand and my bag as he escorted me to the third floor - the Women's Pavilion. The elevator bell rang and the doors opened. "Jesus, Echo, circulation in my hand would be a good thing," said Noah. "Sorry." I tried to let go, but Noah kept his fingers linked with mine. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#echo-emerson #funny #katie-mcgarry #love #noah-and-echo

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#becomes #eats #fly #intellect #mind

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#first #his #illusion #man #sweetheart

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#been #californians #come #crime #good

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ↗

— William Penn

#between #children #his #love #man

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest. ↗

— John Philips

#blooms #boughs #future #harvest #rudiments

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. ↗

— Plautus

#celebrate #let us #occasion #sweet #us