#age

A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#love

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world. ↗

— Hélder Câmara

#diversity #empowerment #humanity #identity #justice

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#counsel #encouragement #guidance #help #opinions

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#cage #girl #historical-fiction #marjorie-bruce #old

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it’s not that easy. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#teenagers #young-adult #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction

The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

You his brother?' 'Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!' 'Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.' I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy. ("Walls That Hear You") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#tragedy #funny

It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio. ↗

— Christopher Bram

#age

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect. ↗

— Gail Carriger

#marriage #nudity #soulless #humor