#lie

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#agnosticism #angel #angels #atheism #atheist

So that's what we did - rocketing down Sixth Avenue, dashing around the rest of the post-concert crowd, splashing our tracks until our ankles were soaked. You took the lead, and I started to lose my sprint. But then you looked back, stopped, and waited for me to catch up, for me to take your hand, for us to continue to run in the rain, drenched and enchanted, my words to Amanda no longer feeling like a requirement, but a foretelling. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #rain #love

Wir dachten alle, du wärst getoastet worden!" - Hector Delos "Wurde ich auch." - Lucas Delos ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#göttlich-verliebt #hector #lucas #romance-love #ya-fantasy

I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#confidence #interaction #love #minutes-before-sunset #questioning

I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear,Sin and Doubt ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#belief-quotes #church #religion #tithing #love

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Le roi est mort, vive le roi! Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#banks #earnings #labor #leo-tolstoy #monopolies

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#case #client #control #defend #front

I am not capable of love. - Felix ↗

— Donna Galanti

#paranormal #science-fiction #secret-agent #love

That was what true love was supposed to be about. Couples slobbering all over each other, only just able to let each other out of sight long enough to go to the loo. True love was not furtively checking your email, while your other half is in the bathroom to see if you have a message from someone you met out once. True love shouldn't be disappointed when your ex writes with the news that another old girlfriend is back on the scene. 'Fuck' she couldn't do this. She couldn't keep pretending. Not a single day longer. ↗

— Chris Manby

#living-a-lie #love

At the time I didn't realize their lie was a defense against the fear they had of losing their mother. I was still too young to understand that most lies were not about stealing or fighting or cheating but were just ways by which a person shrinks their whole world down to a size they can keep protected in the palm of one hand. ↗

— Jack Gantos

#love