#high

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#action

It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#decision #destination #destiny #don-t-give-up #extra

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? ↗

— Markus Zusak

#cowardice

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#trials

She was tipping her head back to inquire, when two men entered the great hall and the question flew right out of her head. They were simply two of the most gorgeous men she'd ever seen. Twins, though different. They were both tall and powerfully built. One was taller by a few inches, with dark hair that swept just past his shoulders and eyes like shard of silver and ice while the other had long black hair falling in a single braid to his waist, and eyes as gold as Adam's torque. They were elegantly dressed in tailored clothing of dark hues, with magnificent bodies that dripped with raw sex appeal. Oh, my, she marveled, they don't amek men like these in the States. Were these typical Scotsmen? If so, she was going to have to get Elizabeth over here somehow. A connoisseur of romance novels, Elizabeth's favorites were the Scottish ones, and these two men looked as if they'd just stepped straight off one of those covers. "Try not to gape, ka-lyrra. They're only human. Mortal. Puny. And married. Both of them. Happily. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#dageus #drustan #gabby #ka-lyrra #karen-marie-moning

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe. ↗

— Joe Navarro

#sherlock-holmes

Omne ignotum pro magnifico, ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes

ALL HE COULD SEE, IN EVERY DIRECTION, WAS WATER. It was June 23, 1943. Somewhere on the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Army Air Forces bombardier and Olympic runner Louie Zamperini lay across a small raft, drifting westward. Slumped alongside him was a sergeant, one of his plane’s gunners. On a separate raft, tethered to the first, lay another crewman, a gash zigzagging across his forehead. Their bodies, burned by the sun and stained yellow from the raft dye, had winnowed down to skeletons. Sharks glided in lazy loops around them, dragging their backs along the rafts, waiting. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#world-war-ii

Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#demand #food-for-thought #forget-the-past #future #go-high

We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person ↗

— Thomas Amo

#high-school #quote #quotes #romance #romantic-comedy