#ene

He's naked," she said in a whisper louder than a yell. "He knows," Cyrus said. "Does he want a blanket?" "Apparently not. ↗

— Dominique Eastwick

#paranormal-romance #rubenesque #shapeshifter-romance #were-tiger #wiccan-haus

I thought you wanted food," she gasped. "I do," he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. "But I want you more. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#penelope-bridgerton #food

Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminals #degeneration #enterprise #originality #pencils

Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tmi #forgiveness

Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. ↗

— John Green

#nerdfighters #paper-towns #things-that-matter #beauty

We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity? ↗

— Janet Poppendieck

#general-welfare #government-programs #moral-responsibility #public-service #food

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#religion #forgiveness

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#love #forgiveness

They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#lie #forgiveness

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#marriage #forgiveness