#ran

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ↗

— RuPaul

#destiny #identity #imagination #inspirational #power

I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness? ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#fear #nihilism #paranoia #imagination

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole ↗

— Tina Carreiro

#hunger #love #paranormal #restraint #romance

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#willful-ignorance #love

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason. ↗

— Albert Camus

#kami #the-stranger #love

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#sad #social-ranking #true #love

There is no law stronger than that of magic. - Kian ↗

— Kailin Gow

#fairy #fairyland #fantasy #love #magic

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job. ↗

— Hanif Kureishi

#commitment #love #perseverance #love

What about San Francisco?" "What about it?" "Did you like it?" She shrugged. "It was O.K." "Just O.K.?" She laughed. "Good God!" "What?" "You're all alike here." "How so?" he asked. "You demand adoration for the place. You're not happy until everybody swears undying love for every nook and cranny of every precious damn --" "Whoa, missy." "Well, it's true. Can't you just worship it on your own? Do I have to sign an affadavit?" He chuckled. "We're that bad, are we?" "You bet your ass you are. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#love

When I fell in love with you... It was nothing like I'd ever known before. It was nearly instant. I think I started falling for you, the moment you shook my hand... It was so powerful. I knew it was wrong, but it was addicting." - Jack Travis ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#smooth-talking-stranger #love