#eve

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving ↗

— David Levithan

#every-day #self-worth

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#don-t-give-up #insecurity #self-worth #self-worth

Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit... ↗

— Meg Cabot

#meg-cabot #murder #profit #revenge #love

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#difference #everyone #exaggeration #gross #love

I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#love #romance #soulmates #sweet #love

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#fever #lauren-destefano #love

In the morning she found pieces of a bird chopped and scattered by the fan blood sprayed onto the mosquito net, its body leaving paths on the walls like red snails that drifted down in lumps. She could imagine the feathers while she had slept falling around her like slow rain. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#stylised-violence #survival #imagination

They told me never fall in love, it never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now thats just human nature. ↗

— Mac Miller

#mac-miller #never #love

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be. ↗

— John Gardiner

#spiritual-growth #spiritual-growth

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. ↗

— John Lennon

#because #belly #biggest #bones #come