I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.—My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering heights
Hand kissing and forehead kissing are acts of the most sacred, high-romance and I think we need to revive these.
"Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?"
Rudy Francisco
Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing
“A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.”
— Dianna Hardy
" ...there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me."
Madelline Miller , Circe
Even when everyone in the world was busy and had something to do, I had jus' one work; to think about YOU.
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“To be so lonely you told yourself you liked to be this way & almost believed it was true.”
— Natalie Wee, from ‘(Suicide Letter In) Parts, 2010′, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines
Margaret Atwood
It's so out of the way how a single person is missing for you and the whole world feels empty.