"Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be."
Edna O’Brien, Country Girls
#Country Girls
#Edna O'Brien
#books
#quote
#love
#romance
"To be loved to madness——such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover."
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
#The Return of the Native
#Thomas Hardy
#literature
#books
#Eustacia Vye
#love
#lover
#passion
#loneliness
"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
#love
#romance
#quote
#Nicole Krauss
#laughter
#wedding
#bride
#bridal
#wedding dress
#wedding gown
#white
#lace
#fashion
#style
#light
#flower
#girl
#sweet
#innocent
#love
"He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams."
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
#virginia woolf
#to the lighthouse
#literature
#quote
#writer
#smile
#love
#romance
#memory
#dreams
"I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."
Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
#Daphne du Maurier
#literature
#romance
#love
#pearls
#fashion
#elegance
#sophistication
#satin
#youth
#books
#Rebecca
#style
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep (1946)
"We love fog because
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing."
it shifts old anomalies into the elements
surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing."
Eavan Boland, Domestic Violence: Poems
#Eavan Boland
#poet
#poetry
#poem
#fog
#weather
#love
#ideas
#language
#literature
#Irish
#female
#beauty
#nature
"Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate."
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
#Gone with the Wind
#Margaret Mitchell
#vanity
#books
#hate
#love
#sixteen
#teen
#teenager
"It is love that I am seeking for,
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world."
But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind
That is not in the world."
William Butler Yeats
#love
#world
#magic
#william butler yeats
#poet
#poem
#poetry
#romance
#beautiful
