#forbid

I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#inspirational #inspirational

My last conscious thought was of my biggest mistake- not the boy beside me, but the one i could never have. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#alexandra #forbidden-love #love

Tasting what could have been—what should have been—didn't make it easier. ↗

— Kele Moon

#erotic-romance #forbidden-fruit #love #love

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#kiss #love #macy-and-wes #love

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right. ↗

— John Conyers

#court #court decision #decision #documents #forbidden

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#commit #cultivation #duty #enable #forbid

Mourning is not forbidden, you know. ↗

— Simin Daneshvar

#know #mourning #you

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. ↗

— Jean Genet

#air #breathe #criminals #forbidden #hopelessly

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. ↗

— Moliere

#forbids #found #heaven #pleasures #some