#mer

This isolation, this deep pit in the bottom of my stomach, didn't have to hurt so much." - Aquamarine Rosabelle bonus included in Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears ↗

— Chamera Sampson

#death #pain #death

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi. ↗

— Ron Kind

#america #clearly #commercial #corps #dam

I just want to feel like home. I just want Rosabelle. My other half. Where she was day, I was night. While I was earth, she was sky." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears ↗

— Chamera Sampson

#chamerasampson #pain #dreams

So you are going to become a part time student and strive to achieve that optimal marriage between the tough and demanding real world and the higher plains of theoretical thought. ↗

— Bryon

#melbourne-university #part-timers #marriage

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#cause #christians #endure #even #merely

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. ↗

— Ron Kind

#against #america #asian #because #black

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins. ↗

— Alveda King

#dream #forgive #god #i #i have a dream

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip. ↗

— Alveda King

#again #already #american #american people #around

In America they really do mythologise people when they die. ↗

— Robin Williams

#die #people #really

In front of us, the ocean stretched for eternity. Around us, reggae mussy floated through the air. In our drying clothes and still-damp hair, we ate junk food and talked. At some point we finished and went for a long walk in the sand. We picked up shells, laughed, and talked. Before I knew it, the sun was going down and we went back to the van. We lay side by side, stretched out on the blanket. When the sun dropped completely below the horizon, we let the moon illuminate us. ↗

— Shannon Greenland

#summer #food