Sapna Reinant > Sapna 's Quotes

“Lost in her breath-like touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Guardian

“You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon”
― Sophie Kinsella, Mini Shopaholic

“Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them, the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. So romancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave their lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.”
― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl

“Oh, I love period dramas, especially period dramas starring Colin Firth. I'm like Bridget Jones if she were actually fat."
"Oh... Colin Firth. He should only do period dramas. And period dramas should only star Colin Firth. (One-star upgrade for Colin Firth. Two stars for Colin Firth in a waistcoat.)
"Keep typing his name, even his name is handsome.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It's both creepy and out of my control, this ability I have to notice so much about other people when I'm positive no one notices anything at all about me.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“He touched me first, said he wanted to kiss me, told me he loved me. Every first step was taken by him. I don’t feel forced, and I know I have the power to say no, but that isn’t the same as being in charge. But maybe he has to believe that. Maybe there’s a whole list of things he has to believe.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Gentlemen are champion sulkers so long as one doesn’t call the behavior by that name.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Perilous Undertaking

“You do not yet know what it means to love someone more than yourself. I have no pride left, no delicacy. I cannot afford it. So I will tell you the truth: I wanted his happiness above all things.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Perilous Undertaking

“The things you name do grow in power, but others that are not ever whispered claw at one's heart anyway, rip it to shreds even if a syllable does not escape the lips.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Ah, there is none more fearful of thieves than the one who has stolen something, and a kingdom is no small something.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Dreams are for mortals."
"Why?"
"Because they must die.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Fate is a force more powerful than gods, a fact they resent, since mortals are often given more leeway and may be able to navigate its current.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Folktales are full of such coincidences that are never coincidences at all, but the brittle games of powerful forces.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Mortals have always been frightened of the night's velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“If you don't believe in anything," he said over his shoulder, "then you have a great deal less to lose.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Was that a thing people did-just gave up? When there was so much in the world to love, to fight for?”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“The library possessed a life of its own, had become greater than Cornelius had ever intended. For these were not ordinary books the libraries kept. They were knowledge, given life. Wisdom, given voice. They sang when starlight streamed through the library's windows. They felt pain and suffered heartbreak. Sometimes they were sinister, grotesque- but so was the world outside. And that made the world no less worth fighting for, because wherever there was darkness, there was also so much light.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“She was irrevocably and inexplicably in love with her husband. It was, perhaps, not the all-consuming passion of which most schoolgirls dream nor the earth-shattering emotion one often equates with love. It was a sensation of safety, contentment, and the feeling that she was, in an unexpected way, cherished.”
― Sarah M. Eden

“Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“individuals feeling connected to someone through the process of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting or neglecting them. Since their feeling is that of cathexis, they insist that what they feel is love.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The message given males is that to be honest is to be “soft.” The ability to be dishonest and indifferent to the consequences makes a male hard, separates the men from the boys.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity. Caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being. When we love maleness, we extend our love whether males are performing or not. Performance is different from simply being. In patriarchal culture males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do. In an anti-patriarchal culture males do not have to prove their value and worth. They know from birth that simply being gives them value, the right to be cherished and loved.”
― Bell Hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“What you said is what matters. Your impact matters more than your intentions,”
― Sarah Gailey, When We Were Magic