#aw

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#books #consultation #democratic #determination #discuss

I got a head start and ws already hanging upside down when he caught up. All the blood was rushing to my head, making me feel dizzy. "I can't stay like this much longer," I told him."Head rush." He leaned down and stuck his face next to mine, gifting me with a beautiful smile."I know the feeling," he said. "You give me a head rush all the time. ↗

— Jessica Verday

#awwwww-moments #caspian #cute #romance #so-romantic

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#existence #heightened #immensely #moments #more

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#claws #glass #hung #i #i love

Men do suck. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#carrie-bradshaw #men #summer #men

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#joanna-russ #pure-awesome #beauty

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#back #citizens #criminal #hurting #law-abiding

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly. ↗

— Kylie Bax

#braces #felt #had #having #i

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#i #i wish #integrated #more #sometimes

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#camera #completely #conversation #could #go