#lt

He almost shouted, "What? You knew it all along?" She smiled & said,"That was why I left the front door ajar, so that you could follow me in. You wanted to see me naked & I decided to let you. You see, at that time, I was as much in love with you as you were in love with me. And I decided to show you everything, to leave nothing to your imagination, because that was what you wanted & what I also wanted."[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#imagination

I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#inspirational #reading #teens #young-adult #inspirational

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#felt #hardest #heard #i #me

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#life-lessons #loyalty #inspirational

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#been #collected #faithfulness #had #into