#ate

Everybody sees the ants?" He looks at me and says, "Well, how many people do you think live perfect lives, son? Aren't we all victims of something at some time or another?" "I don't follow." "Left hand red!" he says. Two ants fall on this turn, and the ant laughter gets louder. "Well, think about it. How many bad things can be done to a person? You got murder and assault, rape and robbery for starters. Just with those you're looking at some big numbers of how many people see the ants." He calls, "Left foot blue!" I say, "Huh," because I'm not sure how many people he means. "There's battery, conspiracy, extortion, slander, defamation and harassment, child abuse, stalking-the list is long, isn't it? Don't forget that every crime has hundreds of victims-everyone who knew and loved the victim and the criminal. That shit can trickle down." "All those people see the ants?" "Yep. Right hand green!" "Wow." "Yeah," he says. "If there are people who don't see 'em, I'd say we outnumber them a million to one. ↗

— A.S. King

#love

They don't know what love is. Here they learn what hate is, and I am so sad that they might never know love because hate came first. ↗

— A.S. King

#love

He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a man up. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#love #love

Surround yourself with people who are really good and really passionate about what they do regardless of what it is… positivity and passion make a powerful combination. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#motivational-quotes #passionate-living #positive-influence #inspirational

Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on. ↗

— Renee Carlino

#love

She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love #love

He looked at her in bittersweet despair. “Sometimes, Kate, when I’m inside you and your arms are around me, I’m human again. There’s a beginning and an end to my life again. And all because of your love. It’s been a gift to me, one I’ve never deserved. But I cherished it.” And maybe he’d destroyed it with the ungodly truth. He didn’t know. He drew a shaky breath, battered by a fresh wave of regret, and his voice trembled. “I thought I had broken your heart a while ago. I didn’t know how to make you hear me, and I knew that by telling you the truth, I’d lose you. But here you sit. You haven’t flipped out, not visibly anyway, nor accused me of being a liar. And you haven’t run in terror, now that you’re truly free to go. I don’t know what to think. Tell me, Kate…have I lost you? ↗

— Shelby Reed

#kate #midnight-rose #shelby-reed #life

The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God. ↗

— Val McDermid

#love

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#am #creation #else #everyone #everything

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#distinction #fortunate #hated #loved