“It is better to laugh a little than to make a tragedy of every misfortune. The Gita teaches: “He who feels neither rejoicing nor loathing toward the glad nor the sad (aspects of phenomenal life), who is free from grief and cravings, who has banished the relative consciousness of good and evil, and who is intently devout—he is dear to Me.” To have an optimistic disposition and try to smile is constructive and worthwhile; for whenever you express divine qualities, such as courage and joy, you are being born again; your consciousness is being made new by the manifestation of your true soul nature.”
Source: Man's Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays - Volume 1 (Self-Realization Fellowship)
“You are cruel even in love," Iona whispers, "How can you make me feel this way? I ought to hate you. I wanted to hate you.”
Source: Her Spell That Binds Me
“Sometimes, mistakes are the beginning of something wonderful.”
Source: In the Event of Love
“For all the rest of that evening they were furtive and unwilling to let the other one out of their sight for more than a minute, as though distance would compromise everything all over again—talking to each other as though they’d never had the opportunity to talk, but talking about bullshit, about nothing at all, just hearing the rise and fall of the other one’s voice.”
Source: Gideon the Ninth
“She was all I had ever dreamt of being. She was beautiful, more beautiful than anyone I had ever seen. She was intelligent, smarter than anyone I had ever met. When poised and quiet, she had an impact on people anyways, a statue and incarnate of everything revered in a woman, yet when she spoke, you did not know how to thank what deity for having been graced to be in the presence of someone like her. She did not speak as I did, and she spoke so little.”
Source: the Poppy fields near the French countryside: Sappho edition
“I'm lost in the tide of her breathing, the sweet smell of her skin, the push and pull of our bodies against each other...”
Source: Cinderella Is Dead
“I have caught a nymph,” Ariadne grins, “Now what shall I do to her?”
Source: Her Spell That Binds Me
“She savored it all, savored the woman before her, who was as beautiful as she was strong, as commanding as she was vulnerable, as hard as she was gentle. The woman who had shown Bianca the kind of unconditional love she'd only ever dreamed of. The woman who had claimed not only her body, but her mind, her heart, her soul.”
Source: The Bodyguard Affair
“I am hers and she is mine. We have nothing to fear anymore. To love her is my fate and I will thank the stars every night for their intervention, Iona thinks to herself.”
Source: Her Spell That Binds Me
“I must admit your brooding has a certain allure, though I prefer your smile,” Iona says.”
Source: Her Spell That Binds Me