But we all must be true to our own nature.
Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are.
Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.

If you can't feel, why did you kiss me?"
Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. "Because I feel it here, in my heart," he said quietly.

I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, sweet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack.

'I love you,' I said, and stabbed him.

You don't do that. You don't just leave your family. Sticking together... It's the only way to survive.

Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. 🌻

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy. It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for. 💞

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.
I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.' 🔥

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall Spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be King.

Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness ✨

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. ☀️ Mr Darcy

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read 🌸