#low

Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#advise #bad-advice #bad-friend #bye #bye-bye

You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It is the realisation that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-naturedly fleeced, but fleeced nonetheless, in public and on a New York sidewalk by card sharks, and who are unable because of social conventions to show their anger, who don't want to look like poor sports. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#nihilism #ruined-youth #anger

He has left nothing except for a note, which I find neatly folded under one of my sneakers. The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lena-holloway #stories-of-the-book-of-shhh #forgiveness

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. ↗

— William Cobbett

#any #defy #fellow #full #i

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting? ↗

— George Eliot

#death #fellowship #love #marriage #memory

I'm alert, full of purpose, free. An few the first time in a long time, I can breathe. ↗

— Moira Young

#freedom #freedom

I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#going-with-the-flow #spontaneity #freedom

Care to join me, Goodfellow?” “Oh, ice-boy. A moonlight stroll with you? Do you even have to ask? ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#partnership #prince-ash #robin-goodfellow #friendship

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships. ↗