#here

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ↗

— Uncle Remus

#living #there-ain-t-no-place-that-far #trouble #you-can-t-run-from-trouble #life

You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#where-she-went #love

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #nowhere #religion #whiskey #love

What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#men

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE... ↗

— Jandy Nelson

#jandy-nelson #the-sky-is-everywhere #music

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#garden #halfway #meet #might #nature

Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#religion #truth #religion

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#heredity #humanity #science #science

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#bad girls #everywhere #go #good #good girls

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#every #every man #free #man #press