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“One’s first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.”

Love Emotion First Love

Book:A Creature Was Stirring

Source: A Creature Was Stirring

“Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.”

Love Religion Sex Divine Romantic Beliefs Sect

Book:Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches on her and she rested her head against his chest. She could hear nothing within, just her own heartbeat echoing.”

Love Romance Romantic Hearts

Book:We Shadows

Source: We Shadows

“You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you...”

Love Friendship Relationship Friends Adore Wishing

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“You may not believe it now, but the human race only went on because we loved one another. We were better than the animals because love came before sex to build families and defend them against the world.”

Love Humanity Sex Human Race Animals Families

Book:The Lifecycle of Suns

Source: The Lifecycle of Suns

“The tension of knowing what I couldn’t give—to anyone, but her in specific—made my skin tighten against the thorns of my bones. Not that I didn’t love her, because it was hard to do otherwise, but that I didn’t know how to love without reservation.”

Love Disappointment Bones Tension Skin Thorn

Book:Holidays with Bigfoot

Source: Holidays with Bigfoot

“It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.”

Love Religion Atheism Dating Date Design Flaw

Book:Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate hers, was ended almost immediately. She could not stand the thought of hands on her that presumed she belonged to them.”

Love Relationship Feminism Dating Feminist Ownership

Book:Artificial Gods

Source: Artificial Gods

“Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.”

Love God Hell Punishment Torture Divine Love

Book:Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie.”

Love Romance Girl Flower Christmas Tecnhicolor

Book:We Shadows

Source: We Shadows

“His kisses were so hungry and male, which isn't bad. Every kiss said he could never have enough, but he wasn't going to stop trying. They were so hormonal. I wanted his sugar roughness. Girl's kisses are deliberate and polished. When she kisses me - when I kiss her - she doesn't want me. She has me and knows it.”

Love Romance Kiss Bisexual Kisses Bisexuality

Book:We Shadows

Source: We Shadows

“Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell her He did not quite feel the same way, that He had died for the sins of the world just because it was fun and did not want things to be too serious. He was only thirty-three, after all, and might want to martyr himself for other people.”

Love Romance Jesus Christ Sin Sacrifice Jesus Christ Savior Martyr Agape

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling and unnatural. That time wasn't off-putting, just like kissing one's sister. This kiss, my kiss, was tingling sweetness, electric apple blossoms.”

Love Romance Kissing Affection Kiss Kisses Apple

Book:We Shadows

Source: We Shadows

“I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where I want to be. She is not some inanimate savior, she has wings of her own to flutter and soar. I intend to fly beside her, to tumble through the air in loops and gambols, to carry her when she grows tired, to keep her warm beneath them against raging winds.”

Love Independence

Book:Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Romantic comedies very rarely deal with washing your lover's dishes because she has to be up early for work, since no one wants to see the mundane truth when they can flip the channel to a desperate, emotionally-limited frottage.”

Love Infatuation Romantic Comedy

Book:Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Underneath all their deserved frustration with the mongoose is often the sort of love one might have for the black sheep of one’s family, a kind of He may be obnoxious, but he is ours.”

Love Family Annoying Obnoxious Annoyance Black Sheep Gef The Talking Mongoose

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Even then, even though hippies were unaware, Peace, Love, and Music was a brand, preying on our nostalgia for an experience few who worship it ever had.”

Love Peace Music Worship Nostalgia Woodstock Hippies

Book:Holidays with Bigfoot

Source: Holidays with Bigfoot

“I miss more loving someone so deeply that I can't imagine a forever without her kisses.”

Love Forever Kiss Loving Kisses

Book:Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through.”

Love Thoughts Kiss

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities.”

Love Reality Pain Dreams Parents

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Love is not fungible; I would not take a substitution if I were in love." "Then you don't remember being in love... The best way to get over one person is to get under another.”

Love Sex Substitution Fungible

Book:The Lifecycle of Suns

Source: The Lifecycle of Suns

“Lovers are not meant to be trusted, as our bodies are lying to our brains via rushes of hormones. Once these are more settled, our brains return the favor, assuring the body it is comfortable and wouldn't rather sow wilder seeds and plow more fields.”

Love Sex Lovers Commitment Lust Hormones Bodies Brains

Book:Holidays with Bigfoot

Source: Holidays with Bigfoot

“Love and poor parenting are acceptable topics for any formal meal I make.”

Love Cooking Parenting Meals

Book:Flies to Wanton Boys

Source: Flies to Wanton Boys

“Love can blind you more than a gunshot.”

Love Gun Blind Gunshot Blinding

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Love could not save her from the bargains others had made.”

Love Save Bargain

Book:Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You

“Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting.”

Love Heart Religion Loving Mantra Ragnarok

Book:Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“If you try to leave me like this, I will haunt you until the end of your days. I will drop out of classes and become a hobo and will leave you little garbage sculptures telling you how much I love you. Every morning. Right at front of your door. You will never be rid of me.”

Love Commitment Dumping

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved slightly more than he had come to fear.”

Love Fear Sleep Snore

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when she looks at me, it's a vacuum. I had drained so much from her over the course of our marriage that every glance rips a little bit of my soul away to fill the void I had whittled within her.”

Love Soul Marriage Falling In Love Flirting Emotional Abuse Spousal Abuse

Book:Of Christmas Present

Source: Of Christmas Present

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