#ily

HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#happiness #inspirational #love #marriage #family

For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#love #peter-pan #secret #tiger-lily #love

They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,' Porcelain remarked. 'Ha!' I said. 'Shows what little you know! I hate them!' 'Hate them? I should have thought you'd love them.' 'Of course I love them,' I said.... 'That's why I'm so good at hating them. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #mystery #family

Trolls have a longstanding animosity for goats--"Who's that trip-tapping across my bridge!?"--and this led me to think that perhaps trolls are related to goats, since it seems a lot more plausible to me that your relatives would make you insane than some random hooved mammal, however ecologically destructive it might be. What if trolls evolved from goats? Or, no, better yet, what if goats evolved from trolls? Or were domesticated from trolls by human shepherds? And the trolls despise their domesticated cousins as a disgrace to the once-proud troll race, (much as I assume wolves would despise Chihuahuas if they ever gave them much thought) and eat them at every opportunity. ↗

— Ursula Vernon

#humor #relations #family

My brother got shot three times two months ago, and he didn’t get the fever.” “I bet your family gets shot at a lot, huh? ↗

— Shelly Laurenston

#humor #lock #family

It was Will, filling the doorway with his lanky, broad-shouldred frame. His blue eyes where thunderous. "What are you doing here?" he demanded. So much for the brief peace they had achieved the night before. "I am practicing," Cecily said. "You told me I would get no better without practice." "Not you. Gabriel Lightworm over here." Will jerked his chin toward the other boy. "Sorry. Lightwood. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#gabriel-lightwood #humor #will-herondale #humor

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#family-relationships #business

I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely. ↗

— Joe Lando

#close #days #family #get #go

Your best is good enough. ↗

— Vivian E. Greenberg

#family-relationships #inspirational #life #age

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important. ↗

— Alan Sakowitz

#character #community #family #financial-thriller #inspirational