#anger

I won't leave you. If you're in danger, then I should be with you. I won't let you risk your life alone. We're in this together, remember? That's what you told me when we ran away. ↗

— Kristine Pierce

#danger #gabriel #ran-away #you-ll-be-safe-here #life

She was so plain. Would it kill you to wear skirts more, he had said to her. Would it really hurt you? He was thinking of how he would like to see her when she was alone with him. He knew she could dress when she had to, but this was what he was saying. He was saying something about their private life. He was saying something about his needs as a man. He imagines America’s anger at this. It would be the women, mainly. Their eager faces had watched: Amelia boarding the plane for her first transatlantic flight; Amelia waving to the crowd in the ticker tape parade; Amelia leaving luncheons and concert halls. Some had been housewives and some, girls with dreams of loops and spins and dives, of hugging the curvature of the earth through a thin sheet of aluminum. -- After Amelia ↗

— Meg Sefton

#fictional-character #short-stories #anger

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#hyoi #love

I didn't have a heart until I meet you. That smile is killin me too. I can't look away. Can I always stay? I can't look away. I need to stay. I didn't have a heart until I meet you. ↗

— Jenni James

#jenni-james #love #lyrics #northanger-alibi #tony-russo

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. ↗

— Edward Albert

#born #enemy #fear #hate #ignorance

The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received ↗

— Jules Evans

#anger

And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with. ↗

— Nancy E. Turner

#dating #love #men #anger

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James? ↗

— Jane Austen

#northanger-abbey #love

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#foreigners #home #settling #strangers #men

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#motivational #opportunity #risk-taking #success #motivational