#forbidden

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#forbidden #love #separation #love

He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#forbidden-love #jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #love

He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of his mouth on hers, all the things he could never say out loud: I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clary-fray #forbidden-love #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments

...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it. ↗

— Brynna Gabrielson

#rebellion #teenagers #rebellion

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#denied #desire #forbidden #long #things

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play. ↗

— Usher

#forbidden #play #sleeping #work

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#call #diligent #duties #following #forbidden

Things forbidden have a secret charm. ↗

— Tacitus

#forbidden #secret #things