#ck

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#inspirational #j-r-ward #rehvenge #sad #inspirational

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#men-mars-women-venus #love

He squinted up at the straining muscular backs of the stone men supporing the dome. "You'll have to take me to some museums," he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country. "But I did see a show of Hopper once. And I like his light. It was kind of lonely or something. Or, "The world's a mess, it's in my kiss,' like John and Exene say," he mumbled. We were in a leather store on Market Street being punks on acid with skunk-striped hair and steel-toed boots. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#francesca-lia-block #thorn #men

You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister. ↗

— Lori Foster

#trace #men

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked was good, though over the past couple of weeks he was beginning to think that dressed in his clothes was a decent second best. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#men

We have to figure this out, Jackson, so leash the lust.” His chin went up as he stared down at her. “Woman, you ask the impossible.” “Do it anyway! ↗

— Lori Foster

#jackson-savor #men

I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around. ↗

— Blue Valentine

#girl #guy #life #love #married

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now. ↗

— Brian Eno

#inspirational #now #inspirational

A blanket could be used to divide people. All men who oppose me should get on top of the blanket, and all women who support me would be well advised get naked and get under the blanket. One at a time, please. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket #division #men #opposition #people