“
who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
( and if you and I should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where
always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves
”
”
E.E. Cummings (Collected Poems)
“
Create boundaries. Honor your limits. Say no. Take a break. Let go. Stay grounded. Nurture your body. Love your vulnerability. And if all else fails, breathe deeply.
”
”
Aletheia Luna (Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing)
“
It was a fine thing indeed, Luna thought, being eleven. She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. Eleven was a number that was visually even, but functionally not - it looked one way and behaved in quite another. Just like most eleven-year-olds, or so she assumed.
”
”
Kelly Barnhill (The Girl Who Drank the Moon)
“
I was loved, I had a home, I had money, and I had a job now. I was safe. I was happy.
”
”
Mariana Zapata (Luna and the Lie)
“
Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.
”
”
Julie Anne Peters (Luna)
“
I am only yours, my Luna. I was yours from my first breath and I will be yours until my last.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
Love isn’t about perfection, Luna; it’s about imperfect people creating their own version of happily ever after.
”
”
Ana Huang (King of Sloth (Kings of Sin, #4))
“
Mom, this isn’t what it looks like.”
Mom put her hand on her hip. “It looks like a group of boys wrestling on the floor of your bedroom while you watch. Wearing a towel.”
“Okay,” I admitted, “it is what it looks like, but it’s not—”
“Sexual?” She raised her eyebrows.
“Mom!”
Luna stuck her head under Mom’s arm and sucked in a breath. “She’s gone from a love triangle to a kinky sex pentagon.
”
”
A. Kirk (Drop Dead Demons (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #2))
“
By learning to truly love someone else, you learn to love the world. And yourself, which may be even harder.
”
”
Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
“
Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger
and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!”
“How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!”
Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.
”
”
J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
“
Ayden and Blake stared each other down.
"Oh. My. God," Luna blurted from Ayden's back seat. "It's a love triangle."
We all looked at her like she'd sprouted an alien from her head. "it's just like in a book. Two guys after one girl and-"
I groaned. "That's ridiculous, Luna, this is not a love triangle."
"Says the girl in the middle of a love triangle. Luna ignored my protests and prattled on. "Not one Hexy Boy but two. I've got to call Danica. Oooo," she squealed and clapped her hands,"We could have teams. Team Ayden and Team Blake. With T-shirt and buttons and-"
"I could make a website," Lucian offered.
"No!" My voice pitched with panic. "No teams. No shirts. No-"
"I'll get you some headshots," Blake said, turning his profile towards Luna and Lucian. "I've been told the left is my best side. What do you think?"
"Aurora's right," Ayden said. "This is buts. Blake you can follow us-"
"Dude, you know no one would pick Team Ayden. You're just jealous."
"That's not true. My team would be way bigger than yours."
"Dare to dream, little man, dare to dream."
"Care to make a wager on it?"
"Absolutely."
"Fine. How about-"
"You two shut up!" I shoved myself out of the car.
”
”
A. Kirk (Demons at Deadnight (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #1))
“
Life was too short to hang yourself up loving someone who would never love you back,
”
”
Mariana Zapata (Luna and the Lie)
“
What a sweet, lovely man-child, said no one ever.
”
”
Mariana Zapata (Luna and the Lie)
“
Everyone deserves love, but there are people that don’t want it, no matter how desperately and truly you might give it to them.
”
”
Mariana Zapata (Luna and the Lie)
“
I will love you until the day I die, and then I’ll love you through eternity.
”
”
Luna Mason (Distance (Beneath the Mask, #1))
“
Lo que sentía por él era como fuego. Había comenzado con una chispa provocada por una sonrisa, pero ahora era una flama. Una flama que había dejado crecer y que lo quemaba por dentro y que luchaba por volverse un incendio.
”
”
Claudia Ramírez Lomelí (La ladrona de la luna (El príncipe del sol, #2))
“
I am not frustrated, Luna. How could I possibly be frustrated with the one person who gives my existence meaning? If you begin to understand anything at all, I hope it’s that you have given me what every male Canis Lupus longs for, needs, and can never be complete without. You, and only ever you, complete the very core of who I am. No love, I am not frustrated with you, I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
“
Because of their sacred gift of translating and embodying energy, empaths are able to spot their soul mates or twin flames a mile away.
”
”
Aletheia Luna (Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing)
“
- Nu crezi dumneata în iubire? Nu te atrage iubirea?...
- Ba da, mă atrage... Poate că e singurul rost al unei vieţi mărginite, comune, cum e viața noastră. Şi-mi place... dar ştiu că nu durează... că nu corespunde unei realităţi... Îmi place mult să privesc o noapte cu lună... şi uneori stau vreme îndelungată la fereastra mea, privind, dar ştiu bine că luna e altceva decât ceea ce pare... Nu întind mâna s-o prind... E mult şi ceea ce dă, fără intenţie şi sforţare.
”
”
Camil Petrescu (Patul lui Procust)
“
Love, to empaths, isn’t just a shallow experience based on looks, social status or great sex. Instead, love is something that comes from the very heart and soul of what an empath is. Love is intense passion, unconditional devotion, and absolute fierce vulnerability.
”
”
Aletheia Luna (Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing)
“
When you refuse to pay your dues to love, sometimes the price goes up. There’s an inflation, and you end up losing more than you’d bargained.
”
”
L.J. Shen (Broken Knight (All Saints High, #2))
“
cu noi timpul tace lung
ca un câine mort
după luna desenată
de un copil cuminte
pe asfalt.
”
”
Monica Laura Rapeanu (Orbul de la Cină (The Blind Man at Dinner))
“
All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy....
”
”
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Luna Benamor)
“
True, unconditional, selfless love can soften the hardest heart, cleanse the filthiest soul, and quench the driest spirit.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Into the Fae (Gypsy Healers, #1))
“
Are we star-crossed?" I asked quietly, a whisper.
"Yes," he said. "But I would fight against the stars for you.
”
”
Luna Lacour (Star-Crossed)
“
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.
”
”
Isabel Allende (Eva Luna)
“
Realize you have awesome people around you who want to love you. Let them. Show them you love them back. (Actions trump words.) Do the forgiveness thing. If necessary-and it almost always is- do the forgiveness thing on yourself.
”
”
Kari Luna (The Theory of Everything)
“
You only get one life, Luna. One stab at this thing called happiness. Why deprive yourself of things you want just because they weren’t given to you the way you hoped for them to come?
”
”
L.J. Shen (Broken Knight (All Saints High, #2))
“
Dear friends,” Kai began, “we are gathered today to witness and to celebrate the union between Wo—er, Ze’ev Kesley and Scarlet Benoit. Though we are a small gathering, it’s clear that the love we feel for this bride and groom would span to Luna and back.
”
”
Marissa Meyer (Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection (The Lunar Chronicles, #4.5))
“
Love isn’t about perfection, Luna; it’s about imperfect people creating their own version of happily ever after. And while I don’t know everything, I do know this: Every version of my happily ever after will always include some version of you.
”
”
Ana Huang (King of Sloth (Kings of Sin, #4))
“
The funny thing about life is that there’s a lot you don’t get to choose. You don’t get to choose whom you’re related to. You don’t get to choose your hair color, your height, or what natural talents you are given. You don’t get to choose where you are born, or who or what the world will see when they look at you. But the best part of life is that in the end, none of that matters. You get to choose who you become. Who you love. You can change your hair color and, to an extent, you can even change your eye color and height. You can learn to be great at something.
”
”
Mariana Zapata (Luna and the Lie)
“
Entre lo poco que sé de la vida, también te diré que nada de todo esto vale la pena sin alguien que te haga ser incoherente.
Ni flores, ni velas, ni luz de luna. Ése es el verdadero romanticismo. Alguien que llegue, te empuje a hacer cosas de las que jamás te creíste capaz y que arrase de un plumazo con tus principios, tus valores, tus yo nunca, tus yo qué va.
”
”
Risto Mejide (El sentimiento negativo)
“
One of the major reasons why empaths and narcissists are attracted to each other is because of the empaths desire to help the narcissist, and the narcissist’s desire to take advantage of the empath’s emotional support. As I mentioned before, pity is our Achilles heel, and we often mistake it for the experience of love.
”
”
Aletheia Luna (Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing)
“
Every thought, feeling, and sensation within your body throughout the day offer you an opportunity to love. Good or bad, whatever you experience is a lesson or a reminder to connect with love.
”
”
Aletheia Luna (Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing)
“
It was like comparing the cold unyielding beauty of the stars to the bloom of a flower, something impermanent and imperfect but all the more lovely for it.
”
”
Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
“
She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long ago settled at the bottom of her well. He made her feel a part of him, of something larger, and somehow more alive.
”
”
Luna Saint Claire (The Sleeping Serpent)
“
Love doesn't hurt. Loving the wrong person is..
”
”
Luna Adriana
“
El amor es para valientes.
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (El retorno de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #3))
“
When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take
care of ourselves.
”
”
Aletheia Luna (Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World)
“
«Es increíble cómo se puede ser tan feliz durante tantos años, en medio de tantas peloteras, de tantas vainas, carajo, sin saber en realidad si eso es amor o no». Cuando terminó de desahogarse, alguien había apagado la luna. El buque avanzaba con sus pasos contados, poniendo un pie antes de poner el otro: un inmenso animal en acecho. Fermina Daza había regresado de la ansiedad.
-Vete ahora -dijo
”
”
Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
“
The first time I fell in love with Zoe, she was scream singing a Taylor Swift song in my parents' living room while my sister Luna laughed at her.
At least, I think that's the first time.
It's happened so many times now.
”
”
Morgan Elizabeth (The Playlist (Springbrook Hills Series))
“
So she looked upon the wolves, who were dwindling in number, and back at the humans who no longer cared for their own, and combined their spirits. She took the loyal, protective, possessive natures of the wolf and took the intelligence, emotions, and love of the human and brought them together. She designed us to be a pack.
”
”
Quinn Loftis (Out of the Dark (The Grey Wolves, #4))
“
De pronto, tuve una horrible certeza. Por más tiempo que viviera, jamás podría esperar una felicidad mayor que la que sentía en aquel momento. Lo único que podía hacer era intentar conservarla para siempre. Me horrorizó la felicidad que sentía. Si la porción de dicha que corresponde a cada uno estaba fijada de antemano, en aquellos instantes quizá estuviera agotando la parte que a mí me correspondía para mi vida entera, Y, algún día, los mensajeros de la luna me arrebatarían a mi princesa. Entonces sólo me quedaría un tiempo tan largo como la vida eterna.
”
”
Kyōichi Katayama (Socrates In Love)
“
Luna. If I could, do you think I would spare my babies from the pain and love and suffering of the body from the first breath drawn? If I could, I would spill a silk sack of secrets down, like fireflies in the hot magic air. But my dear ones might not be ready. They might just swat those sacred secrets away like mosquitoes. If I could, do you think I would use my lunar power to rob them of their beautiful, poignant, soulful earth opera?
”
”
Rebecca Wells (The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder)
“
Mira alla luna. Anche se la manchi, rimarrai sempre tra le stelle.
”
”
Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
“
sólo tiemblo por el frío, y sólo lloro por amor.
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (La maldición de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #1-2))
“
Desde la primera noche de luna, ambos se hicieron trizas los corazones con un amor de principiantes feroces
”
”
Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
“
You are cruel even in love," Iona whispers, "How can you make me feel this way? I ought to hate you. I wanted to hate you.
”
”
Luna Oblonsky (Her Spell That Binds Me (Her Spell Trilogy, #1))
“
I love you, Kaia Luna.” Never had he spoken those three words to a lover. “With all of the man I am, the good and the bad, the mistakes and the glories. I love you to the depths of my being, and if tomorrow I don’t wake as me—
”
”
Nalini Singh (Ocean Light (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #2; Psy-Changeling, #17))
“
Luna, the thought of losing you is like losing my heart. You have me completely, and if you died because I wasn't there to protect you, it would kill me. I know you're strong, I know you're different, but that doesn't change my natural instincts. I still have to protect you.
”
”
Justine Winter (Sapphire's Divinity (Nature's Destiny, #2))
“
You're the ghost of royalty imposing love
You are the queen and king combining everything
Intertwining like a ring around the finger of a girl
I'm just a singer, you're the world
All I can bring ya
Is the language of a lover
((Bella Luna))
”
”
Jason Mraz
“
Luna drifted off to sleep, hearing Ms Cardinal's song in the distance. Her eyelashes fluttered, and her body made little movements. She was dreaming of Maria cuddling her lovingly. What a happy dream that was!
”
”
Suzy Davies (Luna, The Moon Pig, The Pig Who Hid)
“
(...) La felicidad es tener un corazón capaz de amar. Es saber que has sido importante para alguien... Que de algún modo, en algún momento, has marcado la diferencia. Y la muerte no es nada en comparación con esos momentos.
”
”
José Antonio Cotrina (La sombra de la luna (El ciclo de la luna roja, #3))
“
The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself—connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.
”
”
Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
“
Separation cannot kill love, as you know, but it is an agony nonetheless.
”
”
Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
“
No final das contas, era isso o que mais me doía, pois quando o amor se torna impossível, só nos resta uma alternativa. Amar em silêncio. Chorar em silêncio. Em segredo.
”
”
Luna Brandon (Eu Te Dou Meu Amor (Entregue a Você #1))
“
Él no me dio flores o dulces. Me dio la luna y las estrellas. El infinito.
”
”
Jenny Han (We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3))
“
Da allora il sole, la luna e le stelle possono continuare tranquillamente il loro corso, io non so se sia giorno o notte, e tutto il mondo svanisce intorno a me.
”
”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther)
“
My handling of the situation with Jake proved that I was the same girl from eight years ago. I'd just gained a stone and lost my love for Shayne Ward.
”
”
Lynsey James (The Broken Hearts Book Club (Luna Bay, #1))
“
Olive loved Sanders? This was seriously messing with my head. “He never would have loved you,” Luna said. Oh, Luna. Don’t poke the crazy.
”
”
Kristen Painter (Miss Frost Saves the Sandman (Jayne Frost, #3))
“
Only idiots liked men who they had no chance with.
But this was my curse—to love and care for people who didn’t love or care for me back. At least not the way I wanted them to.
”
”
Mariana Zapata (Luna and the Lie)
“
Because I love you,” I repeated, looking her right in the eye. “I know I’m too old for you, and you could have anyone you wanted—someone with a bigger bank account, someone younger and smarter, someone with way less baggage.” “Someone less hairy,” said Hallie. “That doesn’t snore,” added Luna. “As I was saying,” I went on, throwing a brief but menacing glance over my shoulder at my kids, “I know you could find someone better for you. But you won’t find someone who loves you more. Or wants to be with you the way I do.
”
”
Melanie Harlow (Ignite (Cloverleigh Farms, #6))
“
She learnt how to give up on dreams she wasn't destined to dream about, and yet have the courage to breathe for a new beginning. She learnt the art of knowing love as something to be understood with mind before understanding with heart. She learnt to deal with people walking in and out of her life; she learnt it all and she learnt it well.
”
”
Kanika Bankhad (Beloved Luna (Beloved #1))
“
I'M NOT HERE FOR YOU. I'M HERE FOR MYSELF.
”
”
Luna Darko (BFF~!! (or 'til death do us part))
“
My arrows might fester in a wounded heart, spreading like an infection. Or perhaps love itself had been rotten from the start.
”
”
Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
“
The fear never goes away. But in time, love makes it bearable.
”
”
Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
“
It’s better. I am in love with the man of my dreams. He’s a bit rough around the edges, but he makes up for it in lots of other ways.
”
”
Luna Mason (Detonate (Beneath the Mask, #2))
“
I never felt in love with anyone. Though right now with Luna, I’m pretty sure this is what it feels like to be in love with a person.
”
”
Briana Pacheco (A Sky Full of Secrets (Cosmic Love #1))
“
I like who I am when I'm with her. And I hope that she feels the same way. If she doesn't, we shouldn't be together, no matter how I feel about it.
”
”
Jennifer Linsky (Flowers of Luna)
“
¿Dónde está el olvido si cada caricia que me dan es tuya?
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (La maldición de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #1-2))
“
el amor es como la vida, tan lleno de belleza como de injusticia.
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (El retorno de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #3))
“
Amé a mi mujer... le fui fiel hasta su muerte y le seré fiel hasta la mia.
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (La maldición de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #1-2))
“
No puedes fallarnos, ni a nosotros ni a ti. Aunque te canses, aunque te hartes, aunque la necesidad convierta a los perros en lobos… no te falles, Gryal. No dejes de amar.
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (El retorno de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #3))
“
lo que uno no esté dispuesto a hacer por amor... no debería hacerlo por nada.
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (El retorno de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #3))
“
After all, you can fall in love with the mystery, but you can't fall in love with the explanation.
”
”
Aletheia Luna (Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World)
“
I search his eyes. He searches mine. I guess he found what he was looking for. His face lit up like a candle in the darkness.
”
”
Luna. J (God Bless You Devil Kiss You)
“
Atalanta had shown me bear tracks in the woods. A series of clawed prints, larger than my hand, leading away into the brush. The creature who had made them was long gone and could only be defined by the impressions it had left. Love was like that, noticeable only by its absence.
”
”
Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
“
You only agreed to try and get back in her good books.”
“All’s fair in love and war,” said Ron brightly, “and this is a bit of both. Cheer up, it’s the Christmas holidays, Luna’ll be home!
”
”
J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
“
Love is private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening side. I think of the Luna card in the Tarot deck: some strange, huge crustacean, its armor glistening and its pinchers wiggling, clatters out of a pool while wild dogs howl at a bulging moon. Underneath the hearts and flowers, love is loony like that. Attempts to housebreak it, to refine it, to dress the crabs up like doves and make them sing soprano always result in thin blood. You end up with a parody.
”
”
Tom Robbins (Still Life With Woodpecker)
“
Hay gente que se enamora de los pájaros. Te enamoras de su canto, de sus alas, de su forma de volar o de cazar. Entonces te lo quedas y lo encierras en una jaula de madera. Lo miras cada mañana, le sonríes, pero el pájaro deja de volar, de cazar, de cantar. Sus alas se marchitan, y un día, sin saber por qué, despiertas y dejas de mirarlo. Ya no te importa si es feliz, si le brillas los ojos; te limitas a alimentarlo, toleras su presencia y te acostumbras a el, pero el pájaro ha perdido sus encantos. cansado del pájaro te enamorarás de otro lobo, con otros encantos...
”
”
Jordi Balaguer (La maldición de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #1-2))
“
Artists are terminally dissatisfied. With life. With love. With their work. You like being tortured, don’t you, little Luna? Sadness has a bittersweet aftertaste. Keeps us going.” He lit up his joint. “Being an artist is a miserable job. You’re pregnant with your work, only to give the baby away. An entire year of careful strokes of a brush, just to have someone else buy the painting.
”
”
L.J. Shen (Broken Knight (All Saints High, #2))
“
I love you, Sofia. You complete me in ways I never even realized I was missing. You are everything. I live for you. I will die for you. You are, and always will be, the perfect in the midst of my chaos.
”
”
Luna Mason (Chaos (Beneath the Secrets, #1))
“
Mystery the moon
A hole in the sky
A supernatural nightlight
So full but often right
A pair of eyes, a closin' one,
A chosen child of golden sun
A marble dog that chases cars
To farthest reaches of the beach and far beyond into the swimming sea of stars
A cosmic fish they love to kiss
They're giving birth to constellation
No riffs and oh, no reservation.
If they should fall you get a wish or dedication
May I suggest you get the best
For nothing less than you and I
Let's take a chance as this romance is rising over before we lose the lighting
Oh bella bella please
Bella you beautiful luna
Oh bella do what you do
Do do do do do
You are an illuminating anchor
Of leagues to infinite number
Crashing waves and breaking thunder
Tiding the ebb and flows of hunger
You're dancing naked there for me
You expose all memory
You make the most of boundary
You're the ghost of royalty imposing love
You are the queen and king combining everything
Intertwining like a ring around the finger of a girl
I'm just a singer, you're the world
All I can bring ya
Is the language of a lover
Bella luna, my beautiful, beautiful moon
How you swoon me like no other
May I suggest you get the best
Of your wish may I insist
That no contest for little you or smaller I
A larger chance happened, all them they lie
On the rise, on the brink of our lives
Bella please
Bella you beautiful luna
Oh bella do what you do
Bella luna, my beautiful, beautiful moon
How you swoon me like no other, oh oh oh
((Bella Luna))
”
”
Jason Mraz
“
You know, this situation kind of reminds me of Romeo and Juliet. we are destined to be deprived of our love." She says dramatically.
"The only difference is both Juliet and Romeo were atually in love, not just juliet" I say,
”
”
Christine Woo (Luna's Heart (A Nymph's Heart #1))
“
Ho capito in quell'istante di essere veramente innamorato, ma nel senso della parola inglese: in love. Forse non eravamo nemmeno due persone innamorate l'una dell'altra ma innamorate di ciò che ci univa. Come due musicisti jazz: ciò che li unisce non è l'amore dell'uno per l'altro, ma l'amore che entrambi hanno per la musica. Ciò che creano.
”
”
Fabio Volo (Il giorno in più)
“
Sé que mañana despertaré, Gryal, y lo haré tan vacía y triste como un río sin lluvia. Dime, amado, ¿quién será mi lluvia? ¿Quién mojará mi cuerpo cuando me faltes? Vuelve, amor, vuelve sano y salvo, porque si no yo no tendré primavera...
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Jordi Balaguer (La maldición de Gryal (El amante de la luna, #1-2))
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Cinder." Kai pulled one leg onto the bank, turning his body so they were facing each other. He took her hands between his and her heart began to drum unexpectedly. Not because of his touch, and not even because of his low, serious tone, but because it occurred to Cinder all at once that Kai was nervous.
Kai was never nervous.
"I asked you once," he said, running his thumbs over her knuckles, "if you thought you would ever be willing to wear a crown again. Not as the queen of Luna, but ... as my empress. And you said that you would consider it, someday."
She swallowed a breath of cool night air. "And ... this is that day?"
His lips twitched, but didn't quite become a smile. "I love you. I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I want to marry you, and, yes, I want you to be my empress."
Cinder gaped at him for a long moment before she whispered, "That's a lot of wanting."
"You have no idea."
She lowered her lashes. "I might have some idea."
Kai released one of her hands and she looked up again to see him reaching into his pocket - the same that had held Wolf's and Scarlet's wedding rings before. His fist was closed when he pulled it out and Kai held it toward her, released a slow breath, and opened his fingers to reveal a stunning ring with a large ruby ringed in diamonds.
It didn't take long for her retina scanner to measure the ring, and within seconds it was filling her in on far more information than she needed - inane worlds like carats and clarity scrolled past her vision. But it was the ring's history that snagged her attention. It had been his mother's engagement ring once, and his grandmother's before that.
Kai took her hand and slipped the ring onto her finger. Metal clinked against metal, and the priceless gem looked as ridiculous against her cyborg plating as the simple gold band had looked on Wolf's enormous, deformed, slightly hairy hand.
Cinder pressed her lips together and swallowed, hard, before daring to meet Kai's gaze again.
"Cinder," he said, "will you marry me?"
Absurd, she thought.
The emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth was proposing to her. It was uncanny. It was hysterical.
But it was Kai, and somehow, that also made it exactly right.
"Yes," she whispered. "I will marry you."
Those simple words hung between them for a breath, and then she grinned and kissed him, amazed that her declaration didn't bring the surge of anxiety she would have expected years ago. He drew her into his arms, laughing between kisses, and she suddenly started to laugh too. She felt strangely delirious.
They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai's wife. She would be the Commonwealth's empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.
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Marissa Meyer (Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles, #4.5))
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Love isn't always convenient, and it doesn't always happen the way you expect it to, Purity." Everyone is silent for a moment, before Luna turns to her mother. "Wow. That's really profound, Mom." "Isn't it?" Jez asks. "I thought so, too. I saw it embroidered on a pillow.
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Sabrina Paige (His Virgin)
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It turns out, I had it all wrong. I was never a princess in need of a prince to whisk me away. I’ve been reading the wrong books. It wasn’t a fairytale I was after; a dark romance is where it’s at. I craved to be worshiped by the villain for the rest of eternity. Would a prince burn down the world to keep me safe? Or take a bullet for me? No. I needed the darkness to set fire to my soul. That’s why we fought this for so long. Our love was never going to be easy. It’s intense. All-consuming. It’s everything. That’s our happily ever after.
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Luna Mason (Detonate (Beneath the Mask, #2))
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...but he could not see any of the people he loved, no hint of Hermione, Ron, Ginny, or any of the other Weasleys, no Luna. He felt he would have given all the time remaining to him for just one last look at them; but then, would he ever have the strength to stop looking?
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Screenplay))
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One of the most painful stages in the twin flame relationship is that of the “runner and chaser” dynamic. After the initial stages of ecstatic union and fairy-tale partnership, things start to heat up. Egos begin to clash, core wounds, insecurities, and traumas are rubbed raw, and shadow selves lash out. As a result, it’s inevitable that almost every twin flame relationship will battle through drama and dysfunction at first.
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Aletheia Luna (Twin Flames and Soul Mates: How to Find, Create, and Sustain Awakened Relationships)
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My stepmother is not only powerful because the people fear her, she is powerful because she can make them love her when she needs them to. We think that if we choose to do only good, then we are only good. We can make people happy. We can offer tranquility or contentment or love, and that must be good. We do not see the falsehood becoming its own brand of cruelty.”
The ship trembled and their speed increased. Luna blurred beneath them.
“Once,” Winter continued, pushing the words out of her lungs. “Once I believed with all my heart that I was doing good. But I was wrong.
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Marissa Meyer (Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4))
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Self-love is the practice of understanding, embracing, and showing compassion for yourself. Self-love involves nurturing your entire being – that means taking care of yourself on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. When engaging in self-love, we also work to forgive ourselves, accept our flaws, and embrace our inner demons. Contrary to popular belief, self-love isn’t just a blind adoration of our strengths, it’s also an embrace of our weaknesses and shadows.
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Aletheia Luna
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Although they love their families, they prefer mellow and relaxed ways of life like old people. Feeling internally retired already from the wiles of the world, the Old Soul lacks the energy and interest to partake in bickering, tension and emotional rollercoasters. As usual, they like observing from a distance and approaching when the waters are calm.
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Aletheia Luna (Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World)
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The Greeks have three words for love. The first is philia, the kind of love that involves liking and grows up between two people who enjoy each other’s company very much. The second is agape, the selfless love of parents for children or between those who are like family to one another. The third is eros, which explains itself – connection, spark, the desire of the body to seek fulfillment in another.
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Luna McNamara (Psyche and Eros)
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How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today--perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish--do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!”
Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.
“Ron can laugh,” said Luna serenely as Harry led her and Xenophilius toward their seats, “but my father has done a lot of research on Gernumbli magic.”
“Really?” said Harry, who had long since decided not to challenge Luna or her father’s peculiar views.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I held Angie Luna in that room for hours, and I remember the different times we made love like epochs in a civilization, each movement and every touch, apex upon abyss. In the luxury of our bed, we tried every position and every angle. I explored the curves on her body and delighted in seeing the freedom of her ecstasy. Her desperate whispers and pleas. I told her I loved her, and she said she loved me too. We lay in bed with our limbs entangled, in a pacific silence that reminded me of existing on a beach just for the sake of such an existence. I couldn't imagine the world ever becoming better, and for some strange reason the thought slipped into my head that I had suddenly grown to be an old man because I could only hope to repeat, but never improve on, a night like this. I finally took her home sometime when the interstate was empty, and the bridges seemed to lead to nowhere, for they were desolate too.
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Sergio Troncoso (The Last Tortilla & Other Stories)
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Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro
tiene una claridad que nos alumbra
de modo que si ocurre un desconsuelo
un apagón o una noche sin luna
es conveniente y hasta imprescindible
tener a mano una mujer desnuda.
Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro
genera un resplandor que da confianza
entonces dominguea el almanaque
vibran en su rincon las telarañas
y los ojos felices y felinos
miran y de mirar nunca se cansan.
Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro
es una vocación para las manos
para los labios es casi un destino
y para el corazón un despilfarro
una mujer desnuda es un enigma
y siempre es una fiesta descifrarlo.
Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro
genera una luz propia y nos enciende
el cielo raso se convierte en cielo
y es una gloria no ser inocente
una mujer querida o vislumbrada
desbarata por una vez la muerte.
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Mario Benedetti
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Pink’s happiness… gratitude… appreciation. Those purples are desire… love at first sight… Yellow is affection. Red is love. I owe you a couple of white ones, but I was going to wait a while more because I know I fucked up.” He dropped his hand. “But I’m not going anywhere. Not today. Not tomorrow. I thought you were the most beautiful fucking girl I’d ever seen when you walked into that tiny-ass office three years ago being all cocky and shit. And I think about that girl every single night as I go to bed, Luna. I know I’ve walked away from some shit in my life, but the last thing I want… last thing I could handle is going through you not talking to me anymore. You spoiled me, Luna, and I know I’ve been a real piece of shit a lot. I know you deserve better than somebody like me. I’ve told myself that a thousand times but it hasn’t changed a single thing. I fucking miss you, and my greedy ass needs you around.
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Mariana Zapata (Luna and the Lie)
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Why is it called tierra and not tierro? Why is it round, like two breasts sewn together, like the two halves of an orange—a naranja—or the belly of a pregnant woman, and has never had any phallic tendencies, even while it was first forming? Why do we say naturaleza, in the feminine, and not naturalezo? Why did the old poets prefer to write la mar and not el mar, the way most people do today? Why is it la noche, night, la madrugada, dawn, la soledad, solitude, la ternura, tenderness, la felicidad, happiness, la luz, light, la luna, the moon, las constelaciones, the constellations, la voz, a person’s voice, las caricias, caresses, las flores, flowers, la melancolía, melancholy? Why would it seem that the really poetic words are in the feminine? But that’s nonsense. Mentira, lie, is feminine, and that’s not so poetic. And there are lots of poetic words that are masculine: el cielo, the sky, el alba, another word for dawn, el misterio, mystery, el desea, desire, el parto, childbirth, el bien, good as opposed to evil. And speaking of evil, that’s masculine in gender, el mal, and so is power, el poder. Although we shouldn’t forget el querer, loving, a word that belongs to the strategy of desire. And also has a little bit of goodness in it. Bondad, goodness, is a very pretty word, and very feminine—it’s conjugated in the feminine. On the other hand, muerte, death, which is feminine, no matter how she gets herself up to look attractive and profound, could she ever seduce anyone?
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Zoé Valdés (Dear First Love)