#part

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#missing #parted #remembering #love

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#part #peach #love

It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#brandy #drunkenness #party #russia #love

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#citizen #continue #else #every #fulfillment

Letter writing is a habit that allows us to explore new trails all our lives. Each day is a fresh new adventure when we regularly send and receive letters. ↗

— Alexandra Stoddard

#love

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #partner #years #love

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#responsibility #stop-terrorism #terror #terrorism #terrorism

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918) ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#enemies #justice #partners #peace #politics

They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#house-gods #lares #mythology #real-gods #rome

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#independence #partisanship #politics #radicalism #iraq