#ions

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #love #relationships #death

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#life #love #relationships #faith

But everything I have to give, I'll give to you ↗

— Ray Lamontagne

#hope #love #relationships #song-lyrics #faith

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith. ↗

— Charles Sheffield

#questions #searching #faith

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#faith #relationships #faith

Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#faith #faith

Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian #church #inspirational #john-paul #john-paul-warren

George was full of hatred. Of his own weakness and stupidity, of his magic, of the stubbornness and the pride of Beatrice and Marit, and, last of all, hatred of Dr. Gharn, who had started it all. But the hatred swayed to pity. Then to hopelessness. Then back to anger. Every once in a great while, he felt a moment of peace, usually when he caught a glimpse of Beatrice and Marit together. He loved them both in different ways. But that could not be. He turned away, and the cycle began again. ↗

— Mette Ivie Harrison

#conflicting-emotions #despair #emotional-upheaval #hate #love

The best defense is a confusing offense. ↗

— Kimberly Pauley

#relationships #tactics #humor

Kat looked down at her lemonade. 'Do you think he betrayed the love of his life...because of us?' 'She used the name Romani, Kat,' was Gabrielle's answer. 'And besides...' She let the words draw out. Her gaze went to the distance, and there was a sense of peace in the way she said, 'WE'RE the love of his life.' She raised her glass again. 'To family. ↗

— Ally Carter

#family