Ja'kara

“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”
― Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious