#ang

He put his forehead against hers. “Alannah, my heart is yours.” He said softly. “And yet, I must hand it over to someone else for the keeping.” Her last words falling to a strained whisper. ↗

— B.C. Morin

#faeries #honor #hurt #love #pain

Do you know what it was like all those years trying to get you to talk to me and you acting as if I was some sort of pariah, like I had done something so terrible that I was supposed to be banished somewhere you would never have to see me again? ↗

— Somi Ekhasomhi

#love #love

It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#love #love

You may need to change your dreams. ↗

— Jean Kwok

#change

And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places. ↗

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#dangerous #realization #love

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

He couldn't remember having been seventeen; it was something that must have happened to him while he was busy. But it made him feel like he imagined it felt like when you were seventeen, which was like having a permanent red-hot vest on under your skin. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#teenage-angst #business

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian. ↗

— Charles Grandison Finney

#evangelism #inspirational #soul-winning #witnessing #business

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #malfoy #ron-weasley #death

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to always tell the difference. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#serenity-prayer #change