#line

I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#humor #joke #uncertainty #walking-the-line #humor

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#jacqueline-carey #kushiel-s-dart #love #love

It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #laini-taylor #loneliness #love #pain

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#loneliness #love #lust #passion #sex

My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#parenting #spanking #love

You will not! It's wrong." "What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #kiss #love #richelle-mead #sydney

When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#introvert #loneliness #love

Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes. ↗

— Halldór Laxness

#love

Good things come in small packages. Shopping isn't a good thing, so be ready to carry big packages! ↗

— Shubham Choudhary

#one-liner #humor

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#love