#life

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly. ↗

— Albert Camus

#love #romance #life

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#life #life

How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#life

Catcher snorted. “If we’re not playing naked Twister, we’re wasting our waking hours.” “Yep,” Mallory said as she tugged him down the sidewalk, “that’s the love of my life. He’s a romantic at heart. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#mallory #twice-bitten #life

Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#reading-books #life

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. ↗

— Diane von Furstenberg

#self-acceptance #self-esteem #life

Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#life

Obligasyon kong maglayag, karapatan kong pumunta sa kung saan ko gusto, responsibilidad ko ang buhay ko. ↗

— Bob Ong

#life #pinoy #life

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? ↗

— James Joyce

#spirituality #subjectivity #women #life

Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life