#crush

For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me. ↗

— Carolyn Parkhurst

#identity-crisis #love #secret #unrequited-love #love

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. ↗

— James Lankford

#crossroads #crushing #debt #illegal #illegal immigration

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#ideas #ignoring #only #suppressing #them

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#crushed #evil #get #good #survives

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. ↗

— Gary Numan

#arranged #coming #concerts #crush #dad

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#crush #even #first #first kiss #girl

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#alone #crush #even #forces #ground

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#destiny #fulfilling #our #refusing #them

He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they'd tell you they'd always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you'd tell them, What? I didn't even think you liked me? and they'd say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say! ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#courage

So Jude was still Jude, I was still me, and we were still us. About the only thing that had changed was our bank account, just like he’d promised. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#jude-ryder #lucy-larson #change