#ch

Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must be. The sensation's completely new. How have you managed it all these years?" he asks. "Just avoid mirrors. You'll forget about it," I say. "Not if I keep looking at you," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick #hunger-games #katniss #mirror #pretty

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#life #wisdom #life

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'. Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#life #life

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ↗

— Richard Wright

#words #life

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ↗

— Helen Keller

#challenges #enjoy-life #life #risk-taking #life

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#nicholas-sparks #love

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#quote #the-last-song #love

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#french #geese #led #profound #swans

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love #love

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-and-peeta #katniss-everdeen #love #peeta-mellark #romance