#la

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#fever #lauren-destefano #love

Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#relationships #love

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#science #words #love

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat. ↗

— Laura Pedersen

#politics #relationships #sarcasm #usa #love

I love you, he thought, because you are honest with me and because you are willing to speak the truth to me when others might seek to curry favor instead. I love you because you are in this bed with me, not trying to conceive the much-awaited next generation of Windhams, but just holding my hand. -- Gayle Windham ↗

— Grace Burrowes

#relationships #love

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore. ↗

— George Orwell

#hypocrisy #journalism #poland #stalin #warsaw-uprising

Note savages, eh? They live in mountain caves and dress like wild men. They walk about in woolen petticoats, which they are not in the least modest about casting aside when they need their sword arms free. Dash me, can you even begin to imagine the sight of a horde of naked, hairy-legged creatures charging at you across a battlefield like bloody fiends out of hell—screaming and flailing those great bloody swords and axes of theirs like scythes? Not savages? ↗

— Marsha Canham

#scotland #imagination

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love #love

Hasta luego, hasta que me olvides! Me voy porque no tengo tiempo De hacer más preguntas al viento. ↗

— Pablo Neruda "Soliloquio en Tinieblas"

#poem #poetry #solilquio-en-tinieblas #poetry-quotes

A brick could be used to represent my hero. My hero obviously doesn’t look like a brick, but since he is my hero I decided to represent him as more handsome and interesting than he really is. Who’s my hero? Any member of Congress. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #divergence-test #iq-test