decreation:

“(…) moonwarm and tender for another person.”

The Moths and Other Stories; ‘The Broken Web’ by Helena María Viramontes

nedfelix:

“Your heart beats in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.”

— Moby-Dick author Herman Melville’s little-known, passionate, beautiful, heartbreaking love letters to his literary hero and neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne.

relatablepoetryandquotes:

“When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”

- Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

star-eaters:

rolingstoneboycomplex:

when Lemony Snicket wrote “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you everyday” that hurt me

Full paragraph hurts even more.

“ (…) I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close… I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”

firstfullmoon:

My shadow said to me:
what is the matter

Isn’t the moon warm
enough for you
why do you need
the blanket of another body

— Margaret Atwood, from “The Shadow Voice”

grievingchild:

“I think that love poems are really powerful when they’re written by people who aren’t in love. Almost as if to say:Look how much I can hurt without anyone’s help. Look how full of no one I can be without collapsing. This love poem is proof that I know how to carry a torch. This love poem is proof that I’ve had the dream with a king-sized bed in it. This love poem is screaming out an open window, is screaming into my pillow. I know what I’m capable of.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, Proof (via alonesomes)