#between

Love is a tidal wave--not because it sweeps you off your feet, but because it pulls you down and drowns you. ↗

— Samantha van Leer

#jodi-picoult #love #samantha-van-leer #love

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. ↗

— Aeschylus

#bigger #guarded #love #man #married

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#drawings #help #help people #intricate #out

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#balance #between #define #kind #needs

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#adventures #allows #anywhere #because #between

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#between #closest #closest friends #friends #husband

What were you thinking when Trevor had that gun to your head?” “That I was going to die.” I said sounding too sarcastic to actually cover up that I was thinking something much different. “Well, I know that…but when you heard him start to pull the trigger your face changed. I watched it as I pulled the trigger on him.” He said his body still tense against mine. “I was thinking why the hell you hadn’t saved me yet.” “Sure you were. That’s not what I saw in your face.” He noted as his body relaxed. I turned to look at him again and our faces were barely an inch apart. “Then you know what I was thinking, so why are you asking? ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#in-between-seasons #post-apocalyptic #ya-dystopian #ya-romance #change

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#death #everything #free #life #pay

Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isabel.’ ‘That’s why you can trust me to win it for you,’ he says simply. ‘When your interests and mine are the same, you can be certain that I will care for you as for myself. You will be my own. You will find that I care for my own.’ ‘You will be true to me?’ ‘Loyalty is my motto. When I give my word, you can trust me. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#equality-between-partners #husband-and-wife #love #loyalty #marriage

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it. ↗

— John Stott

#religion #theology #religion