#ten

My suffering left me sad and gloomy. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#happiness #love #soulmates #love

I lost the letter in rather embarrassing circumstances. We were to dine at Parramatta Government House that same evening, and Peter had come in early from harvesting the wheat, sitting down in all his dirt to read the precious missive. I sat beside him, fresh from my bath. And so handsome did my husband look, long legs sprawled in Dungaree trousers and frowning over my father's spiky hand, that I could not resist reaching out to smooth away the frown. He caught my hand to his lips, still reading, and then chancing to look up, and reading my face more swiftly than he would ever read the written word, pulled me onto his lap. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#jennifer-paynter #love #mary-bennet #peter-bushell #pride-and-prejudice

When he looked up at Annabel, he was just a man, looking at a woman, praying and hoping that she loved him the way he loved her. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love

If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free. ↗

— Rumi

#love #rumi #love

I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#john-steinbeck #love #odd #the-winter-of-our-discontent #love

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night..You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#love

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment... ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existentialist #nausea #men

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#good-and-evil #mr-hartright #men

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#broken #destroyed #entwine #federico-garcia-lorca #love