#pal

olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#home #love #protection #rj-palacio #wonder

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator) ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#love

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England? ↗

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

#nepal #love

Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#emotions #emotions-love #palestinians #love

What is history if not one endless assault on love? ↗

— Casper Silk

#hotel-noir #pale-fire-press #love

If you really love someone, you don’t have to tell. Cause your shivery hands, pale face and sweating body explain everything ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#shivery #sweat #love

Man får ikke altid de rejser man ønsker sig nieta, men du vil altid få den rejse du har brug for ↗

— Alyson Noel

#paloma-santos #men

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#palo-coelho #the-devil-and-miss-prym #men

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#israel #israeli-palestinian-conflict #jerusalem #jews #mediterranean-basin

My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment. Advancing beside Archer, I am resplendent in my savage finery of seized power. In my service charge the collected blackguards of a dozen tyrants now dispatched to a lesser oblivion. My fingers, stained crimson with the blood of despots, are not the fingers which paged through the paper lives of helpless romantic heroines. No more am I a passive damsel who waits for circumstance to decide her fate; now have I become the scalawag, the swashbuckler, the Heathcliff of my dreams bent on rescuing myself. For now do I embody all the traits I had so hoped to find in Goran. Meaning: No longer am I limited. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#damned #dreams