#consequence

You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#hurt #live #love #taste #love

Leaving the person I love in danger and continuing to live on is the same as being dead. -Hyuga, Natsume ↗

— Tachibana Higuchi

#gakuen-alice #love #love

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment. ↗

— William Goldman

#consequence #identity #importance #inquisitiveness #identity

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#consequences #games #i #i think #into

If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225) ↗

— André Aciman

#coming-out #love-and-loss #unrequited-love #age

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then your allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#betrayal #consequences #divorce #hurt #justice

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice. ↗

— Mike Norton

#brave #bravery #choice #consequence #courage

What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me that, if I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest. (p. 109) ↗

— André Aciman

#dreams #love-and-loss #unrequited-love #dreams

And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#life

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#familiarity #strong #weakness #freedom