Lora

“My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.”
― Anne Fortier, Juliet

“When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.”
― Plato

“You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver