Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary. — Oscar Wilde

I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
— Shana Abé

But what bothers her the most is when someone walks into her life knowing they won’t stay.

I don’t want to be your whole life, just your favorite part.

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
— Louis de Bernières

‘I won’t ever leave you,’ she says. ‘Even though you’re always leaving me.’
‘But I never want to leave you.’
— The Time Traveler’s Wife

Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
— Peter Camenzind(1904) Hermann Hesse

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i love the daily literary quotes.

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved [...] burn , burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"
- Jack Kerouac

In all countries where women are not honoured in public, like sacred objects, even higher than priests, there will be no morals.

-Restif de la Bretonne (from The nights of Paris)

The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine's Day on February's shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.
-Tom Robbins

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

We are weighed down, every moment, by conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
-Charles Baudelaire (French poet)

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
-Knut Hamsun (Norwegian Novelist)

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German writer)

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.
-James Joyce (Irish Novelist)

Men have called me mad; but the question is not settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence- whether much that is glorious - whether all that is profound- does not spring from disease of thought...
-Edgar Allen Po-

The 'Muse' is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is the one you think of when you first awake.
-Roman Payne

Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.
-Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tradgedy.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Writer)

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
-Jack Kerouac (American Writer)

emo mo mo*

it's terrible to be the one left behind for i'd felt it so many times. i run sometimes i fly to find a safe spot to cry.*

突然好想你 你會在哪裡 過的快樂或委屈突然好想你 突然鋒利的回憶突然模糊的眼睛我們像一首最美麗的歌曲 變成兩部悲傷的電影為什麼你 帶我走過最難忘的旅行然後留下 最痛的紀念品 我們 那麼甜那麼美那麼相信那麼瘋那麼熱烈的曾經為何我們還是要奔向各自的幸福和遺憾中老去<3
*eons ago but just feel like i should keep a log// all the beautiful words of love and loss.