#mel

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#melena #mother #pregnancy #wicked #life

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#caine #fighting #life #morganville #morganville-vampires

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love. ↗

— John Derbyshire

#friendship #life #loneliness #love #melancholy

Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#carbury #crumb #hurtle #longstaffe #montague

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. "One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right". ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#dinner #dog #dog-meat #dogs #garlic

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’. ↗

— Django Wylie

#jane-austen #moby-dick #pride-and-prejudice #truth #wordplay

So after, when he whispers," You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#peeta-mellark #love

Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #love #peeta-mellark #love

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#breakup #eva-tramell #heartbroken #love #sylvia-day