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  • #1
    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy
    1427 likes

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    Jocelyn Soriano
    “Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!”
    ― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
    tags: breakup, broken, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearted-quotes, dating, faith, healing, heartache, heartbreak, heartbroken, hope, hurt, hurt-feelings, hurting, hurting-heart, inspirational, life, life-lessons, love, romance
    589 likes

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  • #3
    C.J. Roberts
    “This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.”
    ― CJ Roberts, Captive in the Dark
    tags: abuse, erotica, love, romance
    422 likes

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  • #4
    Anne Sexton
    “Give me your skin
    as sheer as a cobweb,
    let me open it up
    and listen in and scoop out the dark.”
    ― Anne Sexton, Transformations
    tags: darkness, fairy-tales, love, romance
    71 likes

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  • #5
    A. Zavarelli
    “I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.”
    ― A. Zavarelli, Echo
    tags: addiction, dark, love, obsession, romance, twisted
    20 likes

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  • #6
    Emily McIntire
    “She may be your wife, but she is my soul," I whisper against his ear. "And I will cut you up piece by piece and burn your empire until it's soot, just so I can watch her be queen of the ashes.”
    ― Emily McIntire, Crossed
    tags: crossed, dark-romance, emily-mcintire, fairytale-retelling
    22 likes

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  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “My only love sprung from my only hate!
    Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
    Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
    That I must love a loathed enemy.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: romance, romeo-and-juliet
    2433 likes

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  • #8
    Sarah J. Maas
    “He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
    tags: brothers, chaol, chaol-westfall, dorian, dorian-havilliard, friends, friendship, friendship-and-love, heir-of-fire, love, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass
    390 likes

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  • #9
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    3549 likes

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  • #10
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
    4200 likes

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  • #11
    Julie de Lespinasse
    “You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
    ― Julie de Lespinasse
    tags: heartache, love, passion, relationships, romance
    626 likes

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  • #12
    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
    5133 likes

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  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: strength, summer, warm, warmth, winter
    25 likes

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  • #14
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
    16155 likes

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  • #15
    Sarah Williams
    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    ― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
    tags: poetry, science, stars
    3426 likes

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  • #16
    E.E. Cummings
    “i like my body when it is with your
    body. It is so quite new a thing.
    Muscles better and nerves more.
    i like your body. i like what it does,
    i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
    of your body and its bones, and the trembling
    -firm-smooth ness and which i will
    again and again and again
    kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
    i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
    of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
    over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,

    and possibly i like the thrill

    of under me you so quite new.”
    ― e.e. cummings
    tags: love, poetry
    1904 likes

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  • #17
    Langston Hughes
    “I went down to the river,
    I set down on the bank.
    I tried to think but couldn't,
    So I jumped in and sank.”
    ― Langston Hughes
    tags: death, desperation, drowning, poetry, suicide
    806 likes

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  • #18
    Emily Dickinson
    “One need not be a chamber to be haunted.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: darkness, poetry, sadness
    482 likes

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  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers find secret places
    inside this violent world
    where they make transactions
    with beauty.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: persian-poetry, poetry, rumi, rumi-poetry
    482 likes

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  • #20
    Atticus Poetry
    “She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”
    ― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
    tags: atticus-poetry, atticuspoetry, her, instagram, love, love-her-wild, poems, poetry, quotes, wild
    454 likes

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  • #21
    Ntozake Shange
    “i found god in myself
    and i loved her
    i loved her fiercely”
    ― Ntozake Shange
    tags: poetry
    435 likes

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  • #22
    Lang Leav
    “The Rose

    Have you ever loved a rose,
    and watched her slowly bloom;
    and as her petals would unfold,
    you grew drunk on her perfume.

    Have you ever seen her dance,
    her leaves all wet with dew;
    and quivered with a new romance—
    the wind, he loved her too.

    Have you ever longed for her,
    on nights that go on and on;
    for now, her face is all a blur,
    like a memory kept too long.

    Have you ever loved a rose,
    and bled against her thorns;
    and swear each night to let her go,
    then love her more by dawn.”
    ― Lang Leav
    tags: flower, love, rose
    11 likes

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  • #23
    Marie Annilla
    “This wasn’t a sweet kiss; it was two starving souls clawing for survival, as if the kiss was the only thing keeping us from collapsing.”
    ― Marie Annilla, Sinful Games
    tags: arranged-marriage, dark-romance, mafia-romance, romance
    2 likes

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    Marie Annilla
    “I thought it was just her body I wanted, just for one night. But that was a lie.
    I want all of her, every part.
    And I won’t fucking stop until she’s mine.”
    ― Marie Annilla, Sinful Games
    tags: arranged-marriage, dark-romance, mafia-romance, romance
    2 likes

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  • #25
    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    4846 likes

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    Holly Black
    “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
    ― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince
    tags: cardan, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince
    3803 likes

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  • #27
    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    ― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
    2742 likes

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  • #28
    Holly Black
    “She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
    ― Holly Black, Ironside
    201 likes

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  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    3609 likes

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  • #30
    Julio Cortázar
    “Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
    tags: love, poem, relationships, romance
    3160 likes



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