#lia

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dunford #julia-quinn #love #minx #regency

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#disappointment #fear-of-commitment #love #relationships #risks

On average, women are better liars than men. But the best liars are men, because politicians are still predominantly men.
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— Jarod Kintz

#liars #lie #life #lying #men

War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#that-s-life #life

Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#thalia-grace #life

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-reliance #self-trust #life

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#life

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#australia #commuting #england #had #i

A little danger adds spice to life. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#life

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. ↗

— John H. Reagan

#compel #domination #folly #free #i