#del

They grouped into nativities - Bengalis, Biharis, Bandladeshis, South Indians, Northeasterners, Kashmiri Pandits and Punjabis - or sought refuge in professional identities. They were Delhiites because geography and the pursuit of common goals made them so and not because the city offered a unifying identity. Delhi now belonged to everyone who lived in it, but no one belonged to Delhi. The original Delhiites too were missing from public life - they preferred the city of memory. ↗

— Anupreeta Das

#life

If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology. ↗

— Shanina Shaik

#doing #i #like #modeling #psychology

One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#love #love

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love-the-one-your-with #love

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#fidelity #love #obsession #love

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for. ↗

— Katherine Owen

#heartbreak #infidelity #love #relationships #trust

There’s nothing to read into. I’m here to collect my beloved Damon and Stefan is just helping me.” Bonnie looked at her with her brows knitted and her mouth pursed, but didn’t venture a word. “Bonnie?” “Um-hm?” “Did I just say what I thought I said?” “Um-hm.” Elena, with one motion, gathered an armful of pillows and deposited them on her face. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#love

And I don't just WANT you, Helen. I LOVE you. Big difference. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#josephine-angelini #lucas-delos #starcrossed #love

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#psychedelics #love

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hurt #love #rules #strong #love