Heaven and earth Quote by Gustave Flaubert

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent…

— Sigrid Undset

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores…

— Alice Munro

“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers…

— Mary Shelley

“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed…

— Cornelia Funke

Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He stilled for a moment, savoring the sensation of being buried deep inside her, of filling her, of being joined together in God’s heavenly…

— Monica McCarty

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

— Francoise Sagan

“She had always experienced big, intense emotions here at Lover's Leap. Under this huge sky, surrounded by infinite beauty, she had grieved to the…

— Emily March

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of…

— Thomas Hardy

“Alone, all alone in the world, sad and small like a nightingale serenading the infinite. How could a love so tender and sweet become…

— Cisneros Sandra

“She felt something comforting about his attentiveness; it was like having an earthbound deity watching over her, and she warmed in his sun constantly…

— Sophfronia Scott