#pre

...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense... ↗

— John Geddes

#intense #poetry #trie #twitter #weightiness

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#pretending #pretense #danger

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#pretending #fiction

I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#twitter #twitter

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-and-abel #anna-leemann #crying #depressing #heartbreaking

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#angels #civil-war #democracy #destiny #determination

I’m not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it’s a compromise I can live with. ↗

— Shelby Morgen

#erotica #erotica-romance #sci-fi #science-fiction #science

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #pride

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#lizzie #pride-and-prejudice #pride

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #pride