Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“I feel free with you,’ she said.
'why?’ he replied, his eyes scanned
through the room as if he were reading
her feelings on the wall. 'Because you
inspire me and that alone might be the
most dangerous gift a person can
present to another. You give me the
courage I need to get my inner spirit
going and because of that, I now
believe, how you don’t need a pair
of wings to fly.”
— R. M. Drake, Broken Flowers
Tagged: Love, inspiration, Courage
“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
— Anne Sexton, Small Wire
Tagged: Love
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
— Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets
Tagged: Love, Intimacy
“Something was and wasn’t there between us,
something went on and went away.”
— Wisława Szymborska, First Love
Tagged: Magazine, Poems, Death, First Love, Letters, love affairs
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
Tagged: Love
“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
— A.S. Byatt, Possession
Tagged: Love, Resistance
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
— Khalil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
Tagged: Love, Forgetting
“You belong to me, I have made you mine. I have fought for you within myself, from the beginning, and always anew, and perhaps forever.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
Tagged: Relationships, Possession
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Duchess Of Padua
Tagged: Happiness
“The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.”
— Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God
Tagged: Relationships, completeness