#be

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. ↗

— Patty Duke

#depression #evolution #manic #miracle #recovery

It's that event that's the beginning of the avalanche of this play. The first loose rock. ↗

— David Dukes

#beginning #event #first #loose #play

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#along #been #course #decision #had

I'm not a man easily moved to displays of emotion, but tonight I am weak, I am vulnerable. It must be from being inside her, so close to her, breathing in her pain, and love, and light, and blossoming vulnerable beauty ↗

— Poppet

#vampire-romance #beauty

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#before #being #good #got #make

Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song. ↗

— Gus Van Sant Restless

#beauty

All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the morning light where time stopped long before you were born ↗

— John Burnside

#time #beauty

I was born to be champion of the world. ↗

— Roberto Duran

#born to be #champion #i #i was born #world

It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers. ↗

— Libba Bray

#beauty

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark. ↗

— Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

#beauty