#eli

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#spiritual #life

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#life

No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#life

you are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me" -kennan ↗

— Melissa Marr

#melissa-marr #wicked-lovely #life

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. ↗

— Martin Luther

#religion #religion

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life

Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know. ↗

— Ally Carter

#friends #spy #understanding #life

I will ask no more of life than this: that I might love you through all my days, and that you may find both peace and joy in the constancy of my heart. ↗

— Robert Sexton

#love #life

The past can not be cured. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#life #life