#gate

Love is alcohol. ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#beach-blondes #drinking #katherine-applegate #love #summer

I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win. ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#applegate #love

Love Bill Gates not for the number of Windows he has parked on desktops across the world, but for opening up the window of his soul to share the wealth he made with rest of the world. ↗

— Moses Pereira

#love

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#among #discover #forces #gods #heavens

I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them. ↗

— Rishabh Surya

#famous #happiness #happy #money #tom-cruise

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes] ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #latin #motto #comedy

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#civilization #industrialization #mitigate #responsibility #lifestyle

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#dissect #else #figured #gender #going

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#blood #characters #choose #family #formed

Even Napoleon had his Watergate. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#had #his #napoleon #watergate