In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love’s nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love’s fire.– Jeanette Winterson, The.Powerbook (via frenchtwist)
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.–
Virgina Woolf
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Eat me, my love, live on me with animal-thirst … enter me and become my hunger for you.– J. Karl Bogartte, from A Curious Night for a Double Eclipse (via frenchtwist)
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…because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via liquidnight)
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We are one … one flesh; to lose thee is to lose myself.– John Milton, Paradise Lost (via frenchtwist)
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray…–
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.– Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke (via liquidnight)
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I’m not in love with you and if I were you would be the last person I’d ever tell.– Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (via itallfeltright)
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Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.– Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (via frenchtwist)
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I couldn’t live where there were no trees—something vital in me would starve.– L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams (via liquidnight)
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She was a perfect woman; like the moon, she only gave reflected light.– Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve (via frenchtwist)
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She was tied to the moon by long threads of red tangled blood. She moved like a woman tied to the moon … it enveloped her and it opened her to an absolute night without dawn.– Anaïs Nin, Snowdrops of winter … crocuses of spring, from Aphrodisiac (via frenchtwist)
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Once upon a time there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.– Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups (via frenchtwist)
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I feel my own blood thundering inside of me, I feel the horror of falling into abysms. But you and I would always fall together and I would not be afraid… I will find you everywhere. You alone can go wherever I go, into the same mysterious regions. You too know the language of the nerves. You will always know what I am saying even if I do not.– Anaïs Nin, Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes: Antonin Artaud (via frenchtwist)
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