#ma

I don't deserve you." "You're not allowed to say that." "Why not?" "It's a breakup line. Unless you're breaking up-" Jason leaned over and kissed her. The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as it the world had switched to high definition. "No breakups," he promised. "I may have busted my head a few times, but I'm not that stupid. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#jasper #mark-of-athena #piper-mclean #rick-riordan #grace

...one should not only be smart in his head, but one should also be smart in how he relates to other people. ↗

— Daniel Whyte III

#men

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#had #i #italy #male #model

A real man can use power, rather than let power use him ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#control #influence #man #men #power

Wrinkles happen to human beings. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#happen #human #human beings #wrinkles

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#future #machine #science-fiction #men

That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the ammassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#men

...so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#marriage

This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss. ↗

— Carol Fragale Brill

#love #romance #women-s-lit #love

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers) ↗

— F. Sionil José

#good #humans #men