#ck

I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard." "You'll never find out. You--------" He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#happy #jack-travis #kiss #sex #fun

So…these Pillars of Hercules. Are they dangerous?” Annabeth stayed focused on the cliffs. “For Greeks, the pillars marked the end of the known world. The Romans said the pillars were inscribed with a Latin warning—” “Non plus ultra,” Percy said. Annabeth looked stunned. “Yeah. Nothing Further Beyond. How did you know?” Percy pointed. “Because I’m looking at it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hercules #heroes-of-olympus #non-plus-ultra #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mythology #percy-jackson #kiss

Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls. ↗

— Rumi

#rumi #love

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#came #destination #does #get #his

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#economy

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warp and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. there is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#evil #good #john-steinbeck #story #change

Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#love #love-dare #love

Oh, I am fortune's fool! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fate #fortune #luck #shakespeare

THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT PITY. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET. THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER. THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#wall-writing #regret