“We are losing the art of intensity. We are losing the beauty of the struggle.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Let me let you in on a little secret, a profound truth passed down from the drunken poets and the great gamblers who built the very concept of romance: the whole point of life is chalance.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“Before I can finish, he pulls me close, his lips brushing mine—gentle, tentative, almost reverent. Then deeper, hungrier, until the world tilts away and there’s nothing but heat and the pounding of my heart.”
Source: Never Did I Dream: A Second Chance Off- Limits Romance
“Love was never meant to survive in the shadows, but we chose each other anyway, even if it meant turning the dark into fire.”
Source: Ashes of the Heart: Dark Mafia Romance of Forbidden Love, Obsession, and Revenge
“chase the passion that grows your talent. And if you feel passionless, step out and travel-the world teaches what routine cannot.”
“You’re my storm,” he had whispered once, face buried in her neck after a long night, his gentle hands tracing her scars like maps to buried treasure. And she had loved him for it, fiercely, in ways she had never allowed herself before. Very much. Enough to dream, in rare, unguarded moments, of a life beyond the Front’s grey construct, a small dacha somewhere, with proper mornings and no radios crackling orders.”
Source: The Crack
“A tremendous mystery unfolds in front of our senses every waking hour of our lives; a mystery more profound, more tantalizing, more penetrating and urgent than any novel or thriller. This unfolding mystery is nature’s challenge to us. Are we paying enough attention to it?”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“You can burn my letters, but my words—I buried them in you.”
Source: Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire
“The confrontation with death—and the reprieve from it—makes everything look so precious, so sacred, so beautiful that I feel more strongly than ever the impulse to love it, to embrace it, and to let myself be overwhelmed by it. My river has never looked so beautiful. Death, and its ever present possibility makes love, passionate love, more possible. I wonder if we could love passionately, if ecstasy would be possible at all, if we knew we'd never die." — Abraham Maslow”
Source: Love and will
“Je blâme tout Roméo à la mesure que je l'envie, d'être éperdument épris de celle qui condamne sa survie.”
Source: Les ingénus