#maid

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love

I'm just playing it safe. I'm staying as far away from the edge as possible, so I don't go plummeting off with a guy who may not even stick around long enough to help peel me off the ground. ↗

— Tracy Lane

#mermaids #romance #love

My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this. ↗

— Tracy Lane

#mermaids #romance #love

True pain teaches us to grow. You aren't finished yet. Dylan needs you. ↗

— Rebecca Salas

#inspirational #mermaids #pain #inspirational

I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t ask this, but knowing everything that you know, do you still want that kiss? ↗

— Daniele Lanzarotta

#mermaid #new-adult-contemporary-romance #forgiveness

My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one. ↗

— Julian Castro

#barely #better #brother #chance #child

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#enlightened #maiden #monarch #obsolete #repertory

I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about. ↗

— Emma Roberts

#wish #dreams

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#after #became #butcher #children #doubled

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid. ↗

— Thomas Nelson Page

#had #maid #old #old maid #remarkable