#forbidden

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

— Francois Rabelais

#denied #desire #forbidden #long #things

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#forbidden #individual #law #matter #mob

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

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ↗

— Harvey Cox

#culturally #discourse #forbidden #forms #last

Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here when our Great Deception comes crashing down. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#michael #the-chase #the-forbidden-game #deception

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

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

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#forbidden #god #i #know #mention