#old

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #goals #hard-to-get #holding-out-for-the-best #love

It is such a relief to be told the truth. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#such #told #truth

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#soldiers #war #life

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses. ↗

— William Maxwell Aitken

#buy #fetch #masters #mistresses #old

I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. I’ve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they don’t and I’m not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#change

I changed my mind. Get out of my house now. I'll set your things on fire and mail you the ashes. ↗

— J. Sterling

#change

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#destiny #destruction #family #folds #her

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#body #brief #consciousness #discovered #evidence

If it’s that jerk, he’s going to see my gun. ‘My body is a weapon.’ Dumb sh*t. I bet my gun can take out his body really damn quick. ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian ↗

— Richelle Mead

#golden-lily #sydney-sage #tea