#pass

All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard drugs, alcohol. Over the years he'd come to see solid sense in the ways so-called savage peoples formalised their rituals of manhood; without such regulation, young men seemed compelled to invent their own, even more lethal, rites of passage. ↗

— Alison Fell

#young-men #experience

Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One’s religion, political persuasion, family, financial and social status, or vocation does not hamper the common thread of personal decency running through most of humankind. ↗

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#empathy #ethics #family

It's all mine, it's all sacred. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#my-world #passion #private-life #writing-advice #writing-life

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet. Perhaps their surrounding world, the strangers they met in the street, the wide expanses they saw on their walks, the rooms in which they lived or met, took more delight in their love than they themselves did. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#passion #love

Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this… ↗

— Abhimanyu Jha

#passion #philosophy #remembrance #romance #love

Does it hurt now?" he asked, his tone rough and seductive. "No." She shook her head again and sighed, trying to pretend his touch didn't make her uncomfortably wet. He grinned. "So...what's with the heavy breathing? ↗

— Eden Summers

#humor #passion #humor

I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#love

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bias #compassion #comprehension #discernment #fear

His eyes were twin flakes of ember floating into the night from a roaring inferno. “I won’t let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe. ↗

— Airicka Phoenix

#dangerous-games #mystery-suspense #passionate-love #thriller #young-adult

One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me ↗

— Lauren Kate

#passion #love