#hips

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#brought #course #dogs #existed #glasgow

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.
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— Jarod Kintz

#family #mom #mother #motherwell #painting

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite... ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #courtney-love #family-relationships #gay #jealousy

I can tell if two people are in love by how they hold each other’s hands, and how thick their sanitation gloves are. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #funny-quotes #gloves #holding-hands #humor

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#life #love #relationships #romance #wisdom

Jill had three basic statements about life, 1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary. 2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. 3. No one ever said that life was fair. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#family #friendship #home #inspitational #life

Listening to Eddy describe his relationship with our mom seemed to indicate that what I feared would be my reality. He never talked poorly about our mother, but he was as honest and sincere as he could be. In a way, he was almost defensive of her to us – trying to help us understand what life had been like for her, so that we could comprehend the choices that she had made. ↗

— Janet Louise Stephenson

#birth-mother #dysfunctional-relationships #family-drama #family

The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #gun-violence #love #meg-kavanagh

Strong nations are built on SOLID HOMES not big houses ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#homes #leadership #love #family

If I could, I'd deliver you from old age and death, from aches and pains, from the blandishments of ghosts, from the torment of your familiar, Goblin. I'd deliver you from heat and cold and from the arid dullness of the noonday sub. I'd deliver you into the placid light of the moon and into the domain of the Milky Way forever. ↗

— Anne Rice

#relationships #vampire-romance #age