#ge

Listen, she said, "cherubim have come to my planet before." "I know that. Where do you think I got my information?" "What do you know about us?" "I have heard that your host planet is shadowed, that it is troubled." "It is beautiful," Meg said defensively. She felt a rippling of his wings. "In the middle of your cities?" "Well-no-but I don't live in a city." "And is your planet peaceful?" "Well-no-it isn't very peaceful." "I had the idea," Proginoskes moved reluctantly within her mind, "that there are wars on your planet. People fighting and killing each other." "Yes, that's so, but-" "And children go hungry." "Yes." "And people don't understand each other." "Not always." "And there's-there's hate?" "Yes." She felt Proginoskes pulling away. "All I want to do," he was murmuring to himself, "is go some place quiet and recite the names of the stars... ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#angels #cherubim #earth #hate #history

Conscious positive wording assists us in maintaining our joy and a positive outlook on life. It allows us to make the choice to be consciously joyful and consciously grateful for all life experiences. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#conscious-positive-wording #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #life-experiences

I would inevitably get the girls who were interested in me because I was the guy from E.T. It was kind of tough. I can't deny ever capitalizing upon it but on the whole in my teens I was pretty virtuous. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#deny #ever #get #guy #i

In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you already have a perfect thing! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

...my family despised Faberge objects as emblems of grotesque garishness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#family

She's gonna know the rooster's in the hen house when she doesn't find me there, so we'd better hurry. ↗

— Georgia Cates

#beauty-series #georgia-cates #jack-henry #jack-mclachlan #laurelyn-prescott

But I'm terrified of giving up my career only to have the whole thing backfire in my face. What if I move down there and it doesn't work out?" "What if you don't and you never know what might have been? Can you live with that? ↗

— Georgia Cates

#addison-donavon #beauty-from-surrender #georgia-cates #laurelyn-prescott #paige-beckett

Savannah is so beautiful that the dead never truly depart. ↗

— James Caskey

#haunted #savannah #beauty

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#chilling #imagery #personification #beauty

Adapting doesn't mean changing yourself...... ↗

— Adil Adam Memon

#change