#kindlehighlight

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#attitude

There are two ways,” he told me, “and they are love and not love. I choose love. ↗

— Tony Jones

#love

While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#movies

Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#movies

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#kindlehighlight

Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dreams

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#death

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring ↗

— John Fowles

#life

We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life. ↗

— Danielle Ganek

#life

We know that to become a Christian we shouldn’t try to fix ourselves up, but when it comes to praying we completely forget that. We’ll sing the old gospel hymn, “Just as I Am,” but when it comes to praying, we don’t come just as we are. We try, like adults, to fix ourselves up. Private, personal prayer is one of the last great bastions of legalism. In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you’ve been taught. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life