#al

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#achieved #belonged #ceded #hawaii #here

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#food-for-thought #meat #food

Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn’t know where she was. She didn’t know where she was. The only way she was leaving was if this creature allowed it. ↗

— Danielle Monsch

#gargoyles #paranormal-romance #sword-and-sorcery #family

I want a man that will do what he needs to do to take care of his family. I will give that man every ounce of love and support I have to give. I will never measure him against another man. I will never want what other people have. I will simply enjoy every minute we have together. ↗

— Destin Bays

#contemporary-romance #historical-romance #true-love-in-time #family

Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#family

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future-- ↗

— John Jakes

#family

No,” I said. “I can’t remember doing this.” “Oh,” Rena made and gestured dramatically. “You don’t remember it. And that automatically means you didn’t do it? ↗

— Lili Frings

#fantasy #fiction #frindship #mystery #paranormal

In Shanghai, there were several pro-right circles of former officers. They realized that the Great War and European revolutions were a direct consequence of rotten liberalism. Words like order, family, discipline and duty didn't mean anything anymore. Civil liberties, so dear to Nina Kupina and people like her, resulted in monstrous egotism and total moral degradation: I do what I want and don't give a damn about others. ↗

— Elvira Baryakina

#liberalism #socialism #family

And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support. ↗

— Laisha Rosnau

#blood-relations #fear #fishing #hopelessness #the-real-writing

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. ↗

— Deborah J. Lightfoot

#critical-thinking #decision-making #rational-thought #anger