#ice

There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and bumped into an elderly woman. I quickly apologized and she replied, "Well, hold on to something, stupid." There it is. That's it. That's it in a nutshell. I don't want to sound negative, but I think every fetus should be shown a film of that incident, maybe projected up on the uterine wall, and then asked if it wants to come out. I am a strong believer in a woman's right to choose, but I also think that in the last trimester, the kid should be given every opportunity to back out. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#birth #choice #flaw #humanity #imperfection

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. ↗

— Kenny Baker

#europe #i #i love #ice #love

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine ↗

— Victor Hugo

#justice #truth #life

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. ↗

— Esther Perel

#love #marriage #marriage-advice #romance #time

Life presents many challenges...Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose. ↗

— Lee Monroe

#life

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #like #nice #nice person #particularly

After all, what doesn't kill you... just really pisses you off. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#life

Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attracts, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him. ↗

— Primal Kiss Lora Leigh

#life

We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren't anything else. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#choices #life #live #strong #war

There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with his submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But she moves away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She orders him to masturbate for her. She has watched Captain Blicero with Gottfried, and has learned the proper style. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#reality-check #sex #sex-advice #truth #life