#forbidden

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#forbidden #like #me #seem #sensational

It is forbidden for a Muslim to curse anything, be it an animal, person, or lifeless thing. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #culture #curse #forbidden #hadees

... "As you wish." "But I'd like to remain your friend." He put his hands in his pockets. "Always. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#friendship #heartbroken #friendship

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem. ↗

— Michael Kurland

#humor #logic #science #humor

I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords, and the door opened before me. I walked in, and the ghost of the Head Librarian, a thin, dusty presence, with dark eyes and a disapproving look, appeared before me, blocking my way. (He had been eaten by a book, then brought back by the other books, apparently because they approved of him. Because even though he didn't have much time for people, he loved books.) ↗

— Simon R. Green

#eaten-by-a-book #forbidden-books #ghosts #librarians #libraries

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try." "Try' being the operative word," he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try. ↗

— Leah Raeder

#love #relationship #taboo #love

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?" "Because she loves you," said Valentine. Clary felt the blood drain out of her face. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#forbidden-love #jace-wayland #love #valentine #love

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#forbidden #hurt #lochan #love #tabitha-suzuma

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead! ↗

— Ted Dekker

#forbidden #life #living #mortal #ted-dekker

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it. ↗

— David Deutsch

#believe #day #doing #eventually #find