#r

Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I? ↗

— Graham Greene

#drinking #love #love

The Northwestern Carpathians, in which I was raised, were a hard place, as unforgiving as the people who lived there, but the Alpine landscape into which Zlee and I were sent that early winter seemed a glimpse of what the surface of the earth looked and felt and acted like when there were no maps or borders, no rifles or artillery, no men or wars to claim possession of land, and snow and rock alone parried in a match of millennial slowness so that time meant nothing, and death meant nothing, for what life there was gave in to the forces of nature surrounding and accepted its fate to play what role was handed down in the sidereal march of seasons capable of crushing in an instant what armies might--millennia later--be foolish enough to assemble on it heights. And yet there we were, ordered to march ourselves, for God, not nature, was with us now, and God would deliver us, in this world and next, when the time came for that. ↗

— Andrew Krivak

#death

Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today, because they have rejected patriarchal privilege and embraced their own heart's calling instead. ↗

— TammyJo Eckhart

#men #patriarchy #submission #men

To tirelessly promote the cause of Christ and his Father's Kingdom is the fire that should burn bright in the hearts of all men" ~ R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#men

It was perfectly instinctive. I knew if I said I was a dancer he'd have made certain assumptions. I've been receiving this response more and more from men. They look me up and down as if they're looking straight through my clothes and it makes my heart beat with rage. ↗

— Wendy Buonaventura

#wendy-buonaventura #men

«Nothing,» added th Wizard. «We scoured Eltee and Kamin in the Land of Men and Ekus the outskirts of the Enthir Forest. You've looked everywhere. Majesty, I believe the time has come to regard her as lost or dead.» «She is not dead, nor she's lost somewhere. She is here, she hasn't left me. She can't.» Maithon planted his ice eyes in those white-yellowish of the Wizard. ↗

— Chiara Cilli

#men

I’ll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and resourceful, it’s more than an elixir, it’s nearly a dad-blamed aphrodisiac. ↗

— Pamela Morsi

#pamela-morsi #the-lovesick-cure #men

You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content By any jest of mine. These men are worth Your tears:You are not worth their merriment. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#war #men

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#cats #dislike #dogs #men #pets

...until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again. ↗

— Jaime Buckley

#eamon #wanted-hero #men