#bet

It doesn't matter," Min said. "That's what I'm trying to tell you, it doesn't matter what you do or say. I'm going to love you till the end of time." Cal looked at her, stunned. "I know," Min said. "It's really un-PC. I just thought you should know that you can't screw this up." "I can't?" Cal said, wanting to believe her. "No," Min said. "Which doesn't mean I'm not going to tell if you make me mad again. I will shout and slam doors. I just won't be on the other side of the door when I slam it. You've got me for life." He lost his breath and put his forehead against her shoulder. "God, I love you. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#jennifer-crusie #life

Yes, life could be better. But it could also be worse. Don’t believe me? Allow me introduce you to my mother-in-law.
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— Jarod Kintz

#introduce #introduction #life #mother-in-law #worse

Betrayal. It's one of the worst things. ↗

— Jay Asher

#life #life

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#difference #do the right thing #i #just #just be

Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#being #better #came #come #first

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. ↗

— Alan Clark

#better #help #how #know #more

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. ↗

— Asa Gray

#am #anyone #better #calling #convinced

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#margaret-hale #north-and-south #quotes #life

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #life

To do no evil is good, to intend none better. ↗

— Claudius

#evil #good #intend #none