#vale

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#valentinettti #poets

Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you." No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon? Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-" "Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #valentine-morgenstern #regret

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fate #valentine #survival

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely. ↗

— Adam Young

#sea #valentine #wordplay #originality

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable. ↗

— Lewis Black

#back #biggest #find #fine #holiday

To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure - gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in a slow dance, the whispered words, 'You're beautiful' - these are the tokens of love that women cherish. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#adoration #attention #love #lovers #pleasure

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#any #civilization #different #equivalent #german

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#dice #equivalent #gambling #getting #getting money

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american cinema #because #case #cinema #coming

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. ↗

— Robert Browning

#am #asleep #fall #i #i am