#mo

The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #move-on #rose #rose-hathaway #love

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#god #mothers #love

Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love. ↗

— Naoko Takeuchi

#love

I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#humor

A perfect person is easy to love. But when somebody likes all your imperfections, well, that's when you know they really mean it. ↗

— Michelle Dalton

#love #teens #humor

You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass! ↗

— Rachel Caine

#ghost-town #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #love

I told myself that it took forty-two facial muscles to frown and only four to stretch out my arm and bitch-slap the witch. ↗

— Kathy Lette

#love

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-authors #famous-quotes #human-nature #love #philosophy-of-love

If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve. ↗

— John Ortberg

#greatness #love #mother-teresa #serve #service

who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#balloon #flowers #hot-air-balloon #luna #lunar