#ed

To be saved is here, local and mortal ↗

— A.R. Ammons

#redemption #inspirational

I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality. ↗

— Nathan Sykes

#the-wanted #love

I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#meredith-gentry #love

In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

When we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again. There is something extraordinary about the first time falling. ↗

— Ally Condie

#love

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful. ↗

— Joss Stirling

#sky #soulmates #soulmates

A brick could be used to help you become an Olympic swimmer. Tie the brick around your legs and have a friend drop you off someplace, say the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and then simply swim back to shore. By the time you hit the beach, you’ll be able to swim faster than a shark. In fact, you’ll have to if you plan on making it home.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#parenthood #victorian-era #home

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us". ↗

— Malcolm X

#cole-porter #paraphrased #song-lyrics #song-lyrics

Se non ti conoscessi bene, direi che hai appena difeso l’onore di Christian? Ma non è un rompipalle?" "Già" risposi, leccandomi la glassa dalle dita. "Lo è eccome. Solo che per le prossime sei settimane, sarà il mio rompipalle. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #rose-hathaway