#ah

When I am alone with God I see that God is really all I have. All that matters. All that will last. At these times I realize that the magnitude of what I have is incomprehensible. Usually I cry for the sheer joy of it. Not tears of defeat, but rather tears of gratitude. ↗

— Pola Muzyka

#romance-novels #thriller #thriller

[F]or me, being a Jew means feeling the tragedy of yesterday as an inner oppression. On my left forearm I bear the Auschwitz number; it reads more briefly than the Pentateuch or the Talmud and yet provides more thorough information. It is also more binding than basic formulas of Jewish existence. If to myself and the world, including the religious and nationally minded Jews, who do not regard me as one of their own, I say: I am a Jew, then I mean by that those realities and possibilities that are summed up in the Auschwitz number. ↗

— Jean Améry

#jewish-identity #shoah #holocaust

PESAN SEORANG AYAH KEPADA ANAK LELAKI: Kau harus berani mengatakan "tidak" untuk yang salah dan "ya" untuk yang benar. Kau harus melindungi martabat rumahmu dengan menjaga saudara-saudara perempuanmu dan ibumu. Kau harus berani melindungi yang tertindas. Dan jika kau berkeluarga nanti, kau sudah mati sebagai lelaki, tapi kau berganti menjadi suami dan ayah. Kau harus selalu pulang ke rumah dan mengabdi kepada istri dan anak-anakmu. Kau harus bekerja dan menafkahi mereka. Kau harus jadi ayah dan suami yang bisa menjaga kehormatan mereka. ↗

— Gola Gong

#ya

El futuro que tendrás mañana no es el mismo futuro que tenías ayer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#palahniuk #rant #biography

If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho. Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state. ~Michael Vey ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#bullying

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time! ↗

— Esther Hicks

#creative-process #loa #visualization #visualization

amor omnia vincit ↗

— Sitta Karina

#love #love

God, I loved him. I could insist I was okay with just being friends, that I'd find someone else and get over him, but I was fooling myself. There was no getting past this. I loved him, and fifty years from now we could be married to other people, never exchanged so much as a kiss, and I'd still looking into his eyes and know he was the one. He'd always be the one. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#savannah #love

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#catarina-loss #magnus-bane #peru #ragnor-fell #sarah-rees-brennan

Montag, falling flat, going down, saw or felt, or imagined he saw or felt the walls go dark in Millie's face, heard her screaming, because in the millionth part of time left, she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball, and it was such a wildly empty face, all by itself in the room, touching nothing, starved and eating of itself, that at last she recognized it was her own... ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#imagination