#maya

War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman - you must live through defeat... ↗

— Samhita Arni

#war #men

He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies! ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#maya #jesus

Love made her patient. It made her hopeful. ↗

— Maya Banks

#maya-banks #patient #rush #love

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word. ↗

— Maya Banks

#fever #jace-crestwell #maya-banks #beauty

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african #african american #american #angelou #believes

suicide is not just killing yourself, but the world outside ↗

— Mayank Sharma

#kill #mayank-sharma #suicide #world #death

To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know? ↗

— Virginia Madsen

#couple #forward #him #his #just

Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#heartbreak #lover-mine #maya #heartbreak

I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#life-lessons #life-philosophy #memories-with-maya #suffering-of-humanity #transhumanism