#al

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. "I tried to stop her. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#hospital #lying #life

We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#love #spirituality #love

this stuff tastes like the bastard love child of grapes and rubbing alcohol ↗

— Allison Pang

#paranormal #love

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#especially #female #flesh #fresh #hollywood

Love is taking a few steps backwards,maybe even more...to give way to the happiness of the person you love. ↗

— Winnie the Pooh

#love

If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #william-herondale #marriage

Todo mal tienes dos remedios; el tiempo y el silencio. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#attitude

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

#before #branded #call #deal #down

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease. ↗

— Smith Dodie

#marriage

Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#men