#anger

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#conflict #freedom #anger

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#motivation #wounded-pride #anger

He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the greatest pain, the greatest happiness is born: the hope that we too will one day be understood, strangers will accept our words, our lives, as if they were their own. ↗

— Dezső Kosztolányi

#understanding #life

Agonized by her longing to go on thinking of her lover, and her fear of damnation if she does, she has hit on the idea of praying God to make her forget him and as she keeps on making this prayer every minute of the day, she's found a way of never letting him out of her mind. ↗

— De Laclos

#les-liaisons-dangereuses #love #love

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

— Jane Austen

#northanger-abbey #love

Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#love

The seasons are colliding together, storms are destroying lives, and love is a dangerous curse. -The Vangeretta Curse ↗

— Christina Mobley

#quote #the-vangeretta-curse #ya #love

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive. ↗

— Ruth Harris

#decades #love #power #triangle #love

Jacob: "Let her stare." Terra: "What?" Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do. ↗

— Justina Chen

#curious #smile #stare #strangers #beauty

He [Ranger] peeled my [Stephanie] clothes off and wrangled me into bed. And then suddenly he was inside me. He once told me that time spent with him would ruin me for all other men. When he said it, I thought it was an outrageous threat. I no longer though it outrageous. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#romance #men