#age

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#love #relationships #love

Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and imagine nothing so barbarous or savage but what is contrary to the manners of their own time. ↗

— Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury

#age

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love-yourself #self-esteem #self-image #love

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. ↗

— Saloma Miller Furlong

#coming-of-age #escape-from-the-amish #inspirational #memoir #age

In this day and age, there is a special mandate for every one of us to be in-charge of our lives by sitting at the driver's seat of our lives. Rule your world! ↗

— Ifeanyi C.O. Obiakor

#inspirational #passion #vision #world #age

Old age is the lubricant of belief. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#age

Never marry who doesn't love you, If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell. ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

#marriage #love

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit. ↗

— Criss Jami

#compelling #consideration #constructive-criticism #demean #demeaning

Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#crushes #fablehaven #grip #humor #mull