#ka

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#becoming #been #build #darkness #economy

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#combination #event #figure #figure skating #good

She didn't understand that. "How can anyone be afraid of love?" "How can they not?" His face was completely aghast. "When you love someone... truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt—you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling—like having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed, wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you? That no one can love you? To have it happen once is bad enough... but to have it repeated? Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#ash #kat #katra #love #faith

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#break-me #chapter- #katniss

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #signifies #skateboarding #start #thing

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#brother #elder #i #klein #lawrence

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ↗