#rap

I’m building a hot air balloon out of my love for you. I’m starting with the hot air, and then I’m going to surround that with saran wrap, because after all, I’m only using leftovers.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hot-air-balloon #leftovers #love #saran-wrap #food

His Majesty needs a can-I girl anyway. And I'm not it." "A can-I girl?" Andrea frowned. I leaned back. " ` Can I fetch you your food, Your Majesty? Can I tell you how strong and mighty you are, Your Majesty? Can I pick out your fleas, Your Majesty? Can I kiss your ass, Your Majesty? Can I . . ." It dawned on me that Raphael was sitting very still. Frozen, like a statue, his gaze fixed on the point above my head. "He's standing behind me, isn't he?" Andrea nodded slowly. "Technically it should be `may I,'" Curran said, his voice deeper than I remembered. "Since you're asking permission. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#beast-lord #curran #kate-daniels #raphael #food

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#rape #violence #death

Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly. ↗

— Andrew Bonar

#christianity #forgiveness

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#biography #done #great #history #writing

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast ↗

— Victor E. Frankl

#psychology #freedom

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ↗

— Noël Coward

#buildings #cities #london #morality #skyscrapers

How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside? ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

#free #freedom #trap #freedom

If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#free #freedom #prisoner #trapped #freedom

I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off. She was not one of your liberated women. She liked being a wife and mother. I was glad for her, it meant more freedom for the rest of us. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#freedom