#innocent

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life hurt. That the words were just words on a page, but in real life, the pain was immense. Trials and tribulations to prove your love were exactly that, trials and tribulations. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#naive #page #real-life #trials #words

Well honey, seems innocent enough to me. He came in and fell in love with your buns. ↗

— Lorena Bathey

#fell-in-love #innocent #love #love

Is that what your fucking religion taught you? Killing innocent people. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#innocent #religion #religion

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#i #innocent #realized #victim

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#cheney #citizens #here #home #indiscriminately

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ↗

— Anais Nin

#believe #choose #compels #courage #deeper

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#exaggerated #forty #forty years #human #human life

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#being #blocking #character #cliche #complicated