#ene

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

— Shannon L. Alder

#anxiety #bluntness #fear #games #honesty

they do not kiss but they both want to instead their feet touch and so do their arms it is electric magic their tiny arm hairs tingling happily lying together the sun warming them watching sky through green-leafed gum branch close enough to hear each other breathe sweet togetherness this lazy lying down dance of love ↗

— Brigid Lowry

#closeness #love #lying-down #rosie #together

Rene, you want us to find you-don't-know-who and to retrieve his you-don't-know-what for you-won't-tell-me-whom? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #magic-slays #rene #ilona-andrews

Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#generalizations #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god-s-will #grief #self-awareness #torture #self-awareness

A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes. I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind. The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. You left me in the dark. No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight. In the shadow of your heart. And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat. I tried to find the sound. But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness, So darkness I became. I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map. And knew that somehow I could find my way back. Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too. So I stayed in the darkness with you. ↗

— Florence Welch

#being #cosmic-love #florence-the-machine #love #now

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

— Joss Stirling

#sky #soulmates #soulmates

What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ? ↗

— Joss Stirling

#sky #soulmate #soulmates

As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...] ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#politeness #humor

Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#humor #forgiveness