#fit

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught? ↗

— Robert J. Sawyer

#darwinism #evolution #infidelity #macro-evolution #macroevolution

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#courage-in-love #courageous #fitzgerald #gatsby #inspirational

No body is worth more than your body ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#fitness #health #healthy-diet #inspiration #self-awareness

Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.' His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.' 'You're impossible.' 'Me Jev, you Nora.' -Nora & Patch (PG 226) ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#nora-grey #patch-cipriano #smile

All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush #nora-gray #patch #time

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#hope

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#archangel #becca-fitzpatrick #fallen-angel #hush-hush #patch

If you can't feel, why did you kiss me?" Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. "Because I feel it here, in my heart," he said quietly. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hush-hush #nora #patch #heart

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am... ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#sisters

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#days #die #dog #dying #fitting