#po

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species. ↗

— Joe Quirk

#apes #history #hominids #human #love

Considering the number of ghastly love poems that had been written and which seemed fairly clearly a waste of everyone's time, Jonathan couldn't help but be surprised that coffee hadn't been thus immortalized. ↗

— James P. Blaylock

#humor #poetry #love

I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #on-horseback #pegasus #qilin #self-empowerment

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#marriage #support #survival #test #marriage

He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using. ↗

— Miriam Toews

#love

We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #hard-times #life #motivational #power

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party. ↗

— Michael Thomas Ford

#love

His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— Justine Dell

#hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers #romance

What’s bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I’m not comfortable with that. ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-love #love-story #lovers

Hey, you’re the one who can’t stand me being so close to you. ↗