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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#usa #united-states

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth. ↗

— Beatrice Sparks

#diary #drugs #go-ask-alice #heroin #marijuana

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#pleasure #drugs

Drugs?" "Rituals. Are YOU messing around with drugs?" "No. But maybe rituals." "Drugs might be better. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#lol #maura #raven-boys #drugs

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drugs

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#drugs

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#assumptions #biases #criticize #judge #judging

Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. He’d better not be falling for her. Sure she’s cute, but I can’t think about that. ↗

— Jenna-Lynne Duncan

#kidnapping #new-orleans #romance #young-adult #new-adult

My darling, My day’s sweetest moments are at dawn, for I awake with dreams of you still in my head. As the light touches my lips, I can almost feel yours upon mine. I imagine your footsteps coming up the walk, but today is the same as the day before. It is only fanciful thinking. As the first beams of morning sunlight dance across my weary shoulders I cry out, “How can you be so cheery and bright with so much sorrow across our land?” I know I must be strong and face another day, but tears fill my eyes. Suddenly, a white dove lands upon my window sill. Surely this be the omen that peace is near at hand. Just like the breath of the coming Spring, this little dove now brings me new hope. God has heard our prayers and our Southland will flower again. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#dreams

Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul. ↗

— David Gemmell

#good #humanity #love #motivation #imagination