#des

Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mythology #percy-jackson #power #mythology

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#destined #early #grave #skepticism

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#desire

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me! ↗

— Anne Frank

#love #love

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #reason #violence #love

Can I kiss you now?" he asked. "I think you'd better, tiger," I replied. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#eternal-love #kelsey #love #meant-to-be #ren

If that isn't a declaration of love, I don't know what is. And the words tumble out of me—�a dam breached. ↗

— E.L. James

#fifty-shades-darker #love

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#fate #love #sorrow #love

I used to wonder why Lucy liked those songs so much. You know what I mean? She sits in the dark and listens and cries. Music does that to her...I didn't understand for a long time. But I do now. The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#self-description #imagination

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind. ↗

— Sue Miller

#empathy #unkindness #empathy