#erna

It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether. This world was dead. ↗

— Angelo Tsanatelis

#fantasy-fiction #median-kingdom #life

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive. ↗

— Audrey Auden

#immortality #mortality #reincarnation #life

I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love #power #love

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#kisten #rachel-morgan #romance #supernatural #vampire

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #tessa-gray #love

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#situationist-international #the-revolution-of-everyday-life #life

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.” “What if it is immoral somehow? Forbidden?” “Forbidden? But my father’s love for my mother was forbidden, or at least against the law. Or do mean if she is married, or a vampire?” “Or a married vampire.” “Well, nevertheless,” Will said, with a grin. “One should fight on. Love conquers all.” Will and Jem ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #love

My love for you will outlast this beach, this ocean, this planet. When judgement comes and Heaven finally falls, I will take you back with me. ↗

— Scarlet Blackwell

#love

I love you, Bryn Dawson. I am yours, and yours alone, to the very end. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#love

The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establishment of a new kind of school where young people of all nations and backgrounds could live and learn together at the most formative period of their adolescence and so form those ties of friendship and understanding that would last them through their lives ↗

— Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales

#internationalism #united-world-colleges #uwc #youth #friendship