#ann

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#giving-others-space #love #manners #self-care #self-confidence

I'm going to imagine that converstion now. 'Hi, Mom, it's me. I ran away to Paris with a stranger I met under a bridge. He's really old, too, like twenty-five or something, and a soldier, so I helped him desert from his army, and, oh, did I mention he's a Communist'... ↗

— Rosanne Parry

#humor #humour #rosanne-parry #soldier #imagination

Your head is full of kelp. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspiration #liberty #political-philosophy #strength #tyranny

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#captain-wentworth #love #death

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. ↗

— Yann Martel

#martel #of #pi #yann #life

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. ↗

— Judy Blume

#inspirational #judy-blume #inspirational

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#feels #help #himself #honor #humbled

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#villians #writers #inspirational

Get going Simon. Just don't be distracted by the what-ifs, should-ifs, and if-onlys. The one thing you choose for yourself, that is the truth of your universe. ↗

— Kamina

#inspiration #kamina #inspirational