#fr

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo. ↗

— Alan Watt

#writing-advice #writing-from-the-heart #writing-process #writing-advice

Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #death

When a girl says she wants to be friends with benefits, I always ask if that includes dental insurance. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dental-insurance #friendship #funny #humor #life

According to your sources if you strike life with the radical when it cracks the inside's going to glow with the translucence of red wine. Below us people in dark coats stream home, faces unavailable for comment. ↗

— Lori Lamothe

#home

Friendship isn't partying with a group of people to get drunk or chatting with him/her once a week, it's exactly the opposite. Friends make sure you get home safely and they help you when you need it, no matter the scenario. They don't care about what clothes you wear or what you look like, and they don't last for a day. Real friends are more interested in what direction your life is headed rather than your popularity. They care about what you have to say and how you feel, and once you meet this person you'll know it without having to think twice. ↗

— Morgan Tang

#friends #friendship #home #love #opposites

jika anda memiliki kesempatan mendapatkan cinta pertama di sebuah toko kelontong, meskipun toko itu bobrok dan bau tengik, maka rebutlah cepat-cepat kesempatan itu, karena cinta semacam itu bisa menjadi demikian indah tak terperikan! ↗

— Andrea Hirata

#cinta

I shake my head. "Not my kind of scene. I'd rather be home with my book boyfriend." "I'll never get what you book sluts get out of a fictional man…" He shakes his head. "Boys in books are better. ↗

— Danielle Torella

#books #men #home

This doctrine of total inability which declares that men are dead in sin does not mean that all men are equally bad, nor that any man is as bad as he could be, nor that anyone is entirely destitute of virtue, nor that human nature is equal in itself, nor that man’s spirit in inactive, and much less does it mean that the body is dead. What is does mean is that since the fall, man rests under the curse of sin, that he is actuated by wrong principles, and that he is wholly unable to love God, or to do anything meriting salvation. His corruption is extensive, but not necessarily intensive. It is in this sense that man, since the fall, is utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, wholly inclined to all evil. He possesses a fixed bias of the will against God, and instinctively and willingly and turns to evil. He is an alien by birth, and a sinner by choice. The inability under which he labors is not an inability to exercise volition, but an inability to be willing to exercise holy volitions. And it is this phase of it which led Luther to declare that ‘free will’ is an empty term, whose reality is lost; and a lost liberty, according to my grammar, is no liberty at all. ↗

— Loraine Boettner

#free-will #loraine-boettner #predestination #reformed #religion

If she could have anything in the world, he'd asked her, what would it be? She'd answered that one without hesitation: a best friend. She hastily added, a truly, seriously best friend; one that I couldn't wait to talk to first thing in the morning as soon as I woke up, and one that I still wanted to be talking to, right up to the last minute before I went to sleep. He'd smiled faintly. You mean a soul mate, he'd thought but not said. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#cian #druids #highlander #jessi #karen-marie-moning

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later. ↗

— Ransom Riggs

#heart #love #relationship #friendship