#led

We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety. ↗

— Floriano Martins

#knowledge #life #life

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#acknowledgement #contentment #happiness #life #realization

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#entitled-in-love #love-story #toxic #life

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. ↗

— John Green

#love

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #love #oreder-of-the-phoenix #sirius-black #love

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#love #tangled #love

Happy New Year, Julie.” “Happy New Year, Matty.” She turned off the television and rolled onto her side. “Matty, I have another question for you.” “Uh-oh.” “Are you a skilled lover?” “And that concludes our evening chat. ↗

— Jessica Park

#new-years #skilled-lover #love

[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii) ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

#life #love #place #self-awareness #self-knowledge

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#knowledge-wisdom #life-lessons #living-life #love #people

Charlie?" he said, pulling mme back to face him. "I do love you." My breath caught on his words . . . words I'd waited so long to hear. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#endings #ily #the-pledge #love