#old

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#old #quote #quotes #love

Jeg ville være den der slog, og ikke den, der blev slået. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#vold #men

I’ll let you see the door is open, so you know I’m open to the idea that you can leave anytime you want. So long as you are able to pick the lock on your handcuffs while you are blindfolded.
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— Jarod Kintz

#captive #choice #decision #door #freedom

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#death #funeral-rites #holden #hope

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#afraid #all things #cannot #change #dying

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#cold #england #fog #seasons #summer

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#beautiful #beautiful-moments #beauty #holding-on #life

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#new #old #change

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them. ↗

— Guy Sajer

#humanity #soldier #war #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want ↗

— Kami Garcia

#change