#age

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#escape #freedom #love #freedom

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. ↗

— Ann Marie Frohoff

#teen-fiction #teenagers #writer #writer-quotes #writers

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else. ↗

— Kelly Link

#monsters #pretty-monsters #teenagers #teens #teen

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper. ↗

— Martin Luther

#faith #god #marriage #money #parenthood

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance. ↗

— Debi Pearl

#change

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#death

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. ↗

— Truman Capote

#change #life #change

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#tragedy

Language is a virus from outer space ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#language

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#language #meaning #words #language