You say love is letting you do what you want
even if the things that you are doing
start to ruin how I'm feeling inside.

My heart sobbed a lament that was hard to ignore.

—Katie MacAlister

It is not everyone
who has your passion
for dead leaves.

—Jane Austen

You only need one man to love you.
But him to love you free like a wildfire,
crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow,
sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides.
Only one man and all of this.

—C. JoyBell C.

Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

—Gerard Manley Hopkins

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields,
that it kisses them so gently?
And then it covers them up snug,
you know, with a white quilt;
and perhaps it says
"Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."

—Lewis Carroll

You will manage to keep a woman in love with you
only for as long as you can keep her in love
with the person she becomes when she is with you.

—C. JoyBell C.

Sand castles just aren't made to last.

—Alice Yi-Li Yeh

I love you as certain dark things
are to be loved, in secret,
between the shadow and the soul.

—Pablo Neruda

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.

—Rumi

I love you.
Tell me the words you need to hear and I will say them.
Over and over and over until the echo sings
like whispered hymns in the broken rubble
where churches once stood.

—Tyler Knott Gregson

Me and you are of the same flesh.
Always.
Always.

—Tyler Knott Gregson

I am skin and bones
and dreams and passion and love
and hope and joy and ...

—Tyler Knott Gregson

And I will love you
long after the wind lifts me
and spreads me at sea.

—Tyler Knott Gregson

All I have is this,
this and you
and the belief
that we are enough.

—Tyler Knott Gregson

Let us leave this place and
drive as far away as we can.
Let us find comfort in each other's arms
and breathe in the scent of one another.
Let us wash away our past upon the beach
and let us build our own new world
with just you and me.

Photo: LeTran

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons,
as I would not want to live in a world without magic,
for that is a world without mystery,
and that is a world without faith.

— R.A. Salvatore

Burn the empty spaces left by your absence
and decorate my flesh with the ash.
Hear my war cry that sounds like a plea
and promise of forever.
Feel my voice shake the soil
under your bare feet,
let your toes dig into the earth for balance
and to simply remind them that they are
in fact toes and they do in fact
call a foot home and that foot
has carried you here,
carried you to me.

—Tyler Knott Gregson

When I am lonely for boys what I miss is their bodies.
The smell of their skin, its saltiness.
The rough whisper of stubble against my cheek.
The strong firm hands, the way they rest
on the curve of my back.

—A.M. Harte

Mine was the twilight and the morning.
Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

—Roman Payne

Photo: Adrianna
Model: Britney