#or

Every success story has a secret, Even if it’s a love story. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#love-story #secret-to-success #success #love

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might close on my own peace, I wanted to close the peace of my love in my heart like dew in a dark rose." From "Philip Speaks ↗

— Caryll Houselander

#love #peace #rose #love

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. ↗

— Neil Postman

#independent-thought #technology-addiction #thinking #age

Sé mi chica, Nora. Sé mi todo. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick Finale

#love #nora-grey #pacth-cipriano #love

In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#followers #hitler #humanity #impotence #love

El amor verdadero no era precisamente uno de esos absolutos; pregunta en la cual la palabra <>, sin embargo, tenía tanto que ver con la empleada por Kant o Hegel como la palabra <> con un descarrilamiento o un terremoto, con sus aullidos y su sangre. Bruno respondía que, a su juicio, la calidad del amor que hay entre dos seres que se quieren cambia de un instante a otro, haciéndose de pronto sublime, bajando luego hasta la trivialidad, convirtiéndose más tarde en algo afectuoso y cómodo, para repentinamente convertirse en un odio trágico o destructivo". ↗

— Ernesto Sabato

#love #love

And when you grow up one day," her mother would always add, "you might be lucky enough to be shot by someone you love. ↗

— Carolyn Cohagan

#love

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#age

He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall. ↗

— Lauren Groff

#friendship #memories #age

Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humour #pornography #sarcasm #love