#ate

Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors reassure him, flash lights in his eyes, checks his pules. I'm disappointed that mine was not the first face he saw when he woke up, but he sees it now. His features registrer disbelief and something more intense that I can't quite place. Desire? Desperation? Surely both, for he sweeps the doctors aside, leaps to his feets and moves towards me. I run to meet him, my arms extended to embrace him. His hands are reaching for mine too, to caress my face, I think. My lips are forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss #meeting #mockingjay #peeta #suffocate

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. ↗

— Rumi

#desire

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#consciousness

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. ↗

— Nicholas Kristof

#generations #inequality #inequity #opportunity #united-states

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#fate #destiny

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#fate #wonder #destiny

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#fate #destiny

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#exist #oneness #recreate #together #unity

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#yearning #hate

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate. ↗

— Sandra Boynton

#mnemonic #seasons #determination