42 quotes found
“Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.”
“He hasnt really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but hes starting to, a little.”
“They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen. Even i...”
“I see you from afarfragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift”
“I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.”
“Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after.”
“..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.”
“Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!”
“As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are ...”
“...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.”
“Time didnt heal my heal wounds but it lent me perspective. My vision was no longer clouded and I saw what Id become. Id let inspiration become obsession. Tunnel vision had hindered all progress. I ...”
“Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost ...”
“You've invaded my mind and I can't get you out of it," he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him and said, "Then you should forget." "Forget?" he thundered,"EVERYTHING reminds...”
“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your ol...”
“It’s always funny watching something so beautiful not know how beautiful it really is. It’s sad even.”
“You don’t know what you miss. A woman’s body is like whipped cream, so delicate and delicious it will melt in your mouth.”
“He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.”
“I see you from afar—fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift”
