#city

If Miss Malin had now been given the choice of returning to her former reasonable state, and had been capable of realizing the meaning of the offer, she might have declined it on the ground that you have in reality more fun out of life when a little off your head. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#fun #life #life

She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating. ↗

— Sarah Pekkanen

#city-life #new-york-city #life

You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need. ↗

— Sandy Kreps

#life

I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room. ↗

— Sheridan Hay

#city-life #urban-life #life

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #lost #love #love

In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #simplicity #time #love

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clary-and-luke #clary-fray #love #love

I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?" She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?" She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him. "Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #declarations-of-love #love #paranormal

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-lightwood #love

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes, And tell me when it rains, And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins... 'Cause your heart has a lack of color, And we should've known That we'd grow up sooner or later, 'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3 ↗

— Owl City

#love #owl-city #rainbow-veins #songs #love