Deep down, inside every reader girl, is an insatiable hunger to be loved as fictional men love their girls and it increases evermore as they keep on reading.
" ...there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me."
Madelline Miller , Circe
“The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind”
~Rodger Kamenetz
"My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours."
A. R. Ammons, from a poem titled "Shot Glass," featured in The New Yorker
“To be so lonely you told yourself you liked to be this way & almost believed it was true.”
— Natalie Wee, from ‘(Suicide Letter In) Parts, 2010′, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
My heart ached with love when Katherine Mansfield said:
"What I feel for you cannot be conveyed in phrasal combinations; it either screams out loud or it stays painfully silent but I promise- it beats words. It beats worlds."
I think efforts are way more attractive and reassuring in a relationship than promises. You never know if you're gonna be able to keep the promises in future or not, but the efforts you make in the present are a lot more worthwhile.
"I knew that someday you would find me. I waited for you, calmly, with boundless impatience. Consume me."
~Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Alain Resnais
His heart was nothing but a drought land, and she came like a rainstorm.
What I need in today's hookup culture is the kind of person who ties my shoelaces or waits for me to tie 'em while the whole world moves ahead.