#las

But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared. Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth. Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #mortal-instruments #humor

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#nicholas-sparks #love

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#quote #the-last-song #love

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it... ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#emotions #healing #heartbreak #love #nicholas

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #person

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink." "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." Exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill— ↗

— Winston Churchill

#classic-insult #drunk #wife

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. ↗

— Timothy Spall

#cliches #come #i #know #other

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

#bloody #commit #democracy #did #either

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final. ↗

— William Maxwell Aitken

#final #go #i #last #late