#par

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#heartbreak #horror #horror-romance #love #paranormal-romance

Calder, do you like me?" And then I laughed, breaking the spell. Her eyes flashed open and blood flooded her cheeks. She pushed off, but I reached out and pulled her toward me again. That one second of physical separation was too painful a void. ↗

— Anne Greenwood Brown

#love

Everything I had to give went to my children, and though I loved them and my husband utterly, the drudgery of the day-to-day made it seem as if not love but coffee, my Toyota and sheer logistics were what propelled me through life. ↗

— Marcia DeSanctis

#love

We piled aboard the small chopper and after a bit of map pointing to the pilot we lifted off. "I love the RAF," said Jed. "I love them too, sir," said I. After a short flight the chopper landed. We all got out and waved our thanks and farewells to the crew and Major Jenner checked his map. After a quick examination he announced that we had been dropped in the wrong place. "I fucking hate the RAF," said Jed. "I fucking hate them too, sir," said I. ↗

— Ken Lukowiak

#humor #paratroopers #raf #soldiers #war

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#growth #love #parenting #love

A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don't feel like it), emotions (you are often overtaken by feelings of tenderness and delight), perceptions (you understand your little children better than they understand themselves), choices (you choose to get out of bed and go to the children's room even when you'd much rather not), and thoughts (you think differently, more thoroughly and carefully, about your children than about anyone else in the world). The habit of love includes all these things, but not necessarily all at the same time. ↗

— Phillip Cary

#love #parenting #virtue #love

si lasciò trasportare dalla sua convinzione che gli esseri umani non nascono sempre il giorno in cui le loro madri le danno alla luce, ma che la vita li costringe ancora molte altre volte a partorirsi da sé. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#nascita #parto #vita #love

Soulmate adalah saat jiwa kita menemukan orang yang bisa bikin kita bahagia tanpa alasan dan menerima kita apa adanya. ↗

— LoveinParisSeason

#love

Men are a little different than women... We kind of regard virginity as something to dispose of as quickly as we're able to do so." Parker West ↗

— Emma Wildes

#men

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men. ↗

— Cammie McGovern

#prisons #men