#his

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through. ↗

— Alan Lee

#history #love

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#child #children #failure #hateful #his

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#love

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It’s the indifference I don’t know how to process. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#love #this-girl #love

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #love

No estoy enamorado de ti. Ni siquiera despiertas en mí una de esas nostalgias aberrantes que los hombres de mi edad sienten con la proximidad de una vida joven: eres un ser inferior, Iris Mateluna, un trozo de existencia primaria que rodea a un útero reproductor tan central a tu persona que todo el resto de tu ser es cáscara superflua. ↗

— José Donoso

#love #machismo #senilidad #sex #love

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense. ↗

— Jonathan Harris

#ever #first #first time #got #guest

I stand up and walk forward, grabbing the arm of the desk chair. I sit back down on the bed and pull her to me until she’s flush against my legs. I place my hands on her cheeks and force her to look at me. “Layken Cooper, I love you. I’ve loved you since the second I laid eyes on you and I haven’t stopped loving you for a second since. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#this-girl #will-cooper #love

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #dreams #history #imagination #dreams

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen. ↗

— Kate Bernheimer

#drinking #love #poems #whiskey #love