#des

Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave. ↗

— Denise Sevier Fries

#children #destiny #family #fate #fates

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well. ↗

— James Dyson

#engineering-and-design #life #anger

For Christmas my family bought me a new Scrabble board (the one that swivels!) and cat treats. Am I eighty five? ↗

— Taylor Swift

#family

I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden #boys #eli #firecrackers #girls

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. ↗

— Stephen King

#chambers #dark-tower #deschain #gunslinger #hunger

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#suffering #art

He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasn’t a mild expression of preference. This was an imperative. His body was insistent. To continue his existence on this earth, he now needed the following: food, water, shelter, clothing, and Minerva Highwood’s lips. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#passion #sweet #food

He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or igloos, or shaped like airplanes or rowboats or fire engines. And pitchers of syrup to choose from -- partridge berry syrup, thimbleberry syrup, huckleberry syrup, bosenberry syrup, and raspberry syrup. Then there would be cheese plates and cheeses a la carte. Creamy cheeses, crumbly cheeses, and peculiar little cheeses in peculiar little clay pots. ↗

— Michael Hoeye

#breakfast #brunch #desire #food #imagination

When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire. ↗

— Tyler Edwards

#desire #hunger #jesus #zombie #food

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#greed #material #nourishment #food