#par

The stars and planets don’t disappear just because it’s daytime. ↗

— Tami Egonu

#paranormal-romance #dreams

He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want to go on a date?" Caught off guard, she stammered. "A wh-what?" "A date," Jace repeated. "Often 'a boring thing you have to memorize in history class,' but in this case, 'an offering of an evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly." "Really?" Clary was not sure what to make of this. "Blisteringly white-hot?" "It's me," said Jace. "Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #date #jace #repartee #dating

Be careful what you wish for... ↗

— Beth Bares

#dreams

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world. ↗

— Richard Louv

#nature #parenting #education

If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued. ↗

— John Holt

#parenting #education

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#forbidden #love #separation #love

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose. ↗

— Charlotte M. Mason

#children #education #parenting #education

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #safe-haven #unexpected-love #love

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#mentoring #parenthood #training #education

Pam. Listen.' 'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.' 'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.' 'Fuck a zombie!' - Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#fantasy #paranormal #sookie-stackhouse #vampires #family