#ka

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of ↗

— Nina Hagen

#comes-around #goes-around #karma #world #change

He looked at her in bittersweet despair. “Sometimes, Kate, when I’m inside you and your arms are around me, I’m human again. There’s a beginning and an end to my life again. And all because of your love. It’s been a gift to me, one I’ve never deserved. But I cherished it.” And maybe he’d destroyed it with the ungodly truth. He didn’t know. He drew a shaky breath, battered by a fresh wave of regret, and his voice trembled. “I thought I had broken your heart a while ago. I didn’t know how to make you hear me, and I knew that by telling you the truth, I’d lose you. But here you sit. You haven’t flipped out, not visibly anyway, nor accused me of being a liar. And you haven’t run in terror, now that you’re truly free to go. I don’t know what to think. Tell me, Kate…have I lost you? ↗

— Shelby Reed

#kate #midnight-rose #shelby-reed #life

Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of..." "Of losing her? ↗

— Kristen Britain

#karigan #king-zachary #love #mapstone #love

The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God. ↗

— Val McDermid

#love

He chuckled and brought his face closer to mine, almost close enough that it was hard to focus on his features, the smell of his cologne from this close was something expensive and delicious. “Or you’ll what, Kacea? Kick my ass like you did when we were kids? I dare you to try, sweetling. I’m not the chubby simpleton I was then.” He dragged his thumb across my lower lip and his dark gaze followed it. “I’ve learned a lot of things since then. And I’d love to share them with you…” ~ Alain Reece & Kacea Meade (Lunacy, Ragnarok Legacy #1) ↗

— R.A. Sears

#dangerous #kacea-meade #lunacy #threat #love

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#katharine #love #michael-ondaatje #novel #romance

كل منا يدمر الأشياء التي يحبها من خلال هذا العالم الحديث فنضع المال والعمل في المقام الأول بينما نضع من نحب في المقام الثالث ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#money #work #workaholics #love

tell me to stop and i will ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#katy-swartz #love #love

He took a step toward me and whispered in my ear "I really did love you." Leaving out the unsaid word; Once. "Me too." Once. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#love #pushing-the-limits #love

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies