rootsofpassion:

“Life is boring, except for flowers, sunshine, your perfect legs. A glass of cold water when you are really thirsty. The way bodies fit together. Fresh and young and sweet. Coffee in the morning. These are just moments. I struggle with the in-betweens. I just want to never stop loving like there is nothing else to do, because what else is there to do?”

— Pablo Neruda

francisabernathy:

“you were wild and free and haughty with your hair long and loose and your torn dress. your muddy boots, your bruised kneecaps. you were young and bold and your smile was a wicked crooked thing and your teeth were sharp and savage behind your wind-bitten, storm-kissed lips, you did not care for love apart from the way your heart leapt like the spring lambs on the moors and you were beautiful we raced through the heather and bridged the streams that rise up from the rocks like a spilled secret and built fires high on the hills, making magic and mischief like the pagans of old and you shone as bright as the beacon then you fell, with your serpent in the garden teaching you how to play the pianoforte perfectly and that you should not play with boys with rough hands and rougher language and bruises shadowing their brow and that to be wild and free is to be wrong and foolish and distasteful - said with a wince and a knowing sneaking smile but I know how your heart works. I know how your every heartbeat feels when you’re rain-soaked and laughing and late for dinner and you cannot be tethered. you will not let him make you into a model of well-bred beauty; your soul is far too much like mine. love is obsession is jealousy is passion burning through my bones. this, then, is my message, written on fine London-bought cream paper: you always were too wild to be wedded. and oh, what a wedding gift I have for you.”

— let the horses have their heads or they will throw you off; Mr. Heathcliff to Mrs. Catherine Linton, never sent but found smouldering