#ill

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#illness

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #illness

I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#illness

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#illness

Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it." -Fang ↗

— James Patterson

#flock #maximum-ride #illness

I decided to find you, throw myself at your feet, and beg you to have mercy on me. Honestly, I’ll accept whatever you choose, Kelsey. Just don’t ask me to live apart from you again. Because...I can’t. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#illness

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#innocence

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#virtue #wish-fulfillment #writing #virtue

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#self-mastery #will-power #justice

He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#will-trombal #satisfaction