#act

She frowned. “I did nothing to arouse you.” He clenched his jaw, his stare growing more aggressive. “You breathed. ↗

— Shayla Black

#doomsday-brethren #ice #love #sabelle #love

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#love #love

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

— Shannon L. Alder

#anxiety #bluntness #fear #games #honesty

You must match your energy, your vibration, with that of the universe, bringing it to a higher frequency where it synchronizes with the object, person, or situation you require. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-power #stephen-richards #synchronicity #law-of-attraction

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#causes #character #interests #judgement #passionate

It’s the unknown that draws people. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#adventures #attraction #discovery #fascination #love-of-the-unknown

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#humor

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#humor #romance #humor

She’s really not my kind of girl — most of them have tattoos or nose rings — but there’s something about her smile. She smiles like she’s in love with whoever she’s looking at. She smiled at me a few months ago. I’ve been trying to get her to do it again ever since. ↗

— Jaye Murray

#love

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#descriptions #insider #people #perceptions #writers