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  • #1
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #2
    Pablo Neruda
    “Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,
    search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,
    but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #3
    Warsan Shire
    “With you, intimacy colours my voice.
    even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.”
    Warsan Shire
    tags: love

  • #4
    John Keats
    “Touch has a memory.”
    John Keats

  • #5
    Dante Alighieri
    “Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
    Dante

  • #6
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

  • #7
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

    (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #8
    Pablo Neruda
    “I want to see the thirst
    inside the syllables
    I want to touch the fire
    in the sound:
    I want to feel the darkness
    of the cry. I want
    words as rough
    as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #9
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name into my shoulders, referenced me with your mark. The pads of your fingers have become printing blocks, you tap a message on to my skin, tap meaning into my body.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

  • #10
    Peter S. Beagle
    “If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.”
    Peter S. Beagle

  • #11
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

  • #12
    Gillian Flynn
    “I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #13
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “But if you tame me, then we
    shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I
    shall be unique in all the world.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.”
    C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

  • #15
    Jeff Zentner
    “She's it. She's my everything. She's the standard by which I'll judge beauty for the rest of my life. I'll measure every touch to her breath on my skin. Every voice to her voice. Every mind to her mind. My measure of perfection. The name carved into me. If I could, I would lie with her under these stars until my heart burst.”
    Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

  • #16
    Jeff Zentner
    “You're never safe from yourself. Your own blood will poison you.”
    Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

  • #17
    Jeff Zentner
    “His mother was quiet for a moment. “I get out of bed every day because I never know where I’ll meet with one of God’s small graces. Maybe I’ll be cleaning a room and find a dollar bill. Maybe I’ll be at the gas station on a slow night, and I’ll get to sit and be paid to watch the sun set. Or maybe I just won’t hurt much that day. What a miracle each day is. To see the spirit of God move across the face of our lives like he did the waters in the darkness of creation.”
    Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

  • #18
    Dodie Smith
    “Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”
    Dodie Smith

  • #19
    Jeanette Winterson
    “You have a dress with a décolletage to emphasise your breasts. I suppose the cleavage is the proper focus but what I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spreading the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

  • #20
    Jeanette Winterson
    “What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
    tags: time

  • #21
    Jeanette Winterson
    “In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great front feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself. "My son, my son," said Aslan. "I know. Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #23
    Fredrik Backman
    “You have to love me twice as much now," she said.
    And then Ove lied to her for the second - and last - time: he said that he would. Even though he knew it wasn't possible for him to love her anymore than he already did.”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
    tags: love

  • #24
    Fredrik Backman
    “He sits there for what must be an hour, just staring at that photo. Of all the imaginable things he most misses about her, the thing he really wishes he could do again is hold her hand in his. She had a way of folding her index finger into his palm, hiding it inside. And he always felt that nothing in the world was impossible when she did that. Of all the things he could miss, that's what he misses most.”
    Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

  • #25
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: love

  • #26
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling’s mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions…”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #27
    Francis Chan
    “The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
    Francis Chan

  • #28
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita



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