#pre

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence. ↗

— Eric Bana

#ghost #i #much #presence #very

Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?' 'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.' 'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#jennifer-paynter #love #mary-bennet #peter-bushell #pride-and-prejudice

I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant. ↗

— Jo Treggiari

#fierce-ink-press #memoir #love

Accepting the presidency, Barack introduces "my best friend of sixteen years, the love of my life, Michelle Obama" and I think I will pass out. That, right there, is love in action. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love #president #love

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it. ↗

— Anna Gavalda

#life #strength #love

He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#longing #unpredictable #love

Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we’re forced to undergo the event twice—once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#meditation #past #present #worrying #yoga

Live your life with a perspective of “Us ↗

— Martin Suarez

#compassionate #life #life-lessons #love #one-body

Of all the guile! How can you be objective? You have no perspective! You’re only 16! ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#teenage-love #love

At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all. I am finally conceding the truth to me. I am something other than straight. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bisexuality #coming-out #homosexuality #love #pressure