#ily

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #unrequited-love #family

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon) ↗

— Marian Keyes

#family

Ember, you're the only piece of me I have left. Everything else-my family, my home, my soul- they're all gone. I don't know who the hell I am anymore. If it weren't for you... I don't know. ↗

— Kristen Simmons

#family

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#family

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do ↗

— Lindsey Kelk

#friendship #love #family

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded. ↗

— David Sedaris

#soap-operas #family

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you. ↗

— Ally Carter

#uncommon-criminals #w-w-w-hale #family

You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#family

What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in. ↗

— John Green

#family #hazel #sadness #family

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. ↗

— Jack Layton

#family #journey #life #love #family