“How can you love someone, when they aren't living at all”
“A thin, flexible, layer of ice had already formed on the water, and the undulating movement caught the light of the setting sun, like a sparkling curtain of light billowing across the bay. Connie tried to capture the moment in her mind as the thin ice shimmered in oranges and reds as it moved between already forming pieces of thicker ice.”
Source: From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life
“I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell when I’m old. I want to have done things.”
Source: From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life
“The first wave of homesickness caught Connie by surprise. She had not heard or felt its approach until it hit her hard, knocking her to the ground.”
Source: From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life
“Evangeline wanted to give love and be loved and feel love at just the sight of someone. She wanted butterflies and kisses. She wanted it so much that sometimes she thought her heart would burst from it.”
Source: The Ballad of Never After
“He probably knew that any man she took up with now would only pay in pain for what had happened between her and Eugene; the brutal logic of wronged lovers taking their revenge on innocents and outsiders.”
Source: The Country Girls Trilogy & Epilogue [The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, Girls in their married bliss].
“Breakups and divorces, disappointments
and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I
began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just
practice for the eternal separation between the
living and the dead. As with any loss, it is not the
dead who suffer, but the steady flaming fools left
behind.”
Source: Still Alive
“I haven’t done anything wrong. I simply fell in love. Why is that considered punishable?”
Source: Anti-Romantic
“Jag överdrev när jag sa att jag trodde att du hatade det jag spelade. Det jag menade var att jag trodde att du hatade mig. Jag hoppades att du skulle övertyga mig om motsatsen - och det gjorde du, tillfälligt.
Varför kommer jag inte tro på det imorgon?
- Call Me By Your Name, svensk översättning av Peter Samuelsson.
Originalförfattare André Aciman.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Loving her made me ache inside, because there was nothing I could do.
No matter how much I loved her, it didn't help. I couldn't make her skin fit.”
Source: Alma Rose