#ken

To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God. ↗

— Jocelyn Soriano

#broken #broken-heart #broken-hearted #broken-hearted-quotes #dating

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold. ↗

— John Gould

#american people #appealed #around #been #beginning

Reservations is such a strong word. Sounds an awful lot like a date. Which you will remember, I said I’m not doing with you.” “You did say that. But that was before we bonded over shopping.” “This was not true shopping. You consulted while I purchased necessary supplies. I’m not dating you.” “Is that your final answer? Because you’re forcing me to pull out the big guns.” “What big guns?” “I have a new phone number on speed dial that you might find interesting.” He rattled it off and her mouth dropped open. “Where the hell did you get that? ↗

— Dani Harper

#josh-talarkoteen #kenzie-macleod #paranormal-romance #shapeshifter #werewolf

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#apartment #based #building #character #course

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. ↗

— Martha Graham

#because #energy #expression #force #into

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#broken #doubt #expectancy #flowery #hesitation

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beings #definite #distinctively #existence #individuals

I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#beef #broccoli #caught #chicken #fish

I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something. ↗

— Eva Green

#blushing #class #every #every time #go

Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends. ↗

— Merv Griffin

#bother #emergency #me #unless #weekends