#po

He taught me who I was, something I would never have known, without his deft Handling of my personality ↗

— Tarryn Fisher

#olivia #opportunist #love

استريحي ليس للدور بقية انتهت كل فصول المسرحية فامسحي زيف المساحيق ولا ترتدي تلك المسوح المريمية واكشفي البسمة عما تحتها من حنين .. واشتهاء .. وخطية كنت يوماً فتنه قدستها كنت يوماً ظمأ القلب .. وريه ↗

— أمل دنقل

#lovers #poem #love

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it... ↗

— Megan Johns

#contemporary-romance #innocence #love #romance #women-s-fiction

A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #love

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none. ↗

— John Green

#john-green

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#writing-advice #writing-philosophy #writing-advice

A brick could be used to help you become an Olympic swimmer. Tie the brick around your legs and have a friend drop you off someplace, say the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and then simply swim back to shore. By the time you hit the beach, you’ll be able to swim faster than a shark. In fact, you’ll have to if you plan on making it home.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us". ↗

— Malcolm X

#cole-porter #paraphrased #song-lyrics #song-lyrics

It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri-s-point-of-view #richelle-mead #romitri #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy

As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that a lot—but it didn’t stop me from striking out to block her. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #rose-hathaway