#ray

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray. ↗

— Brad Renfro

#pray #tried #you

Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed in vain hope and desire... If you awake from troubled sleep at such a time, you can only sit by the window and think of those that have been lost to you, those that followed your parents into those cold and heartless regions below the grass, silent and dark. Eventually, morning comes and the world resumes its solidity, but another tiny thread of ice has been stitched into your heart forever. ↗

— K.W. Jeter

#death #false-dawns #grass #gray-light #heart

...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean... ↗

— John Geddes

#love-lost #tears #love

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me. ↗

— Holly Black

#business

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! ↗

— William Wilberforce

#prayer #business

I grab my bag and open the door, trying to ignore him. But ignoring Gray Porter is like ignoring an elephant in a tutu. A really hot elephant-in a very manly tutu. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#crush #gray #jess #love #love

My love is like hooray!
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— Jarod Kintz

#hooray #love #love

الخليفة في الأرض، قد يكون، رأس الدولة، لكن ذلك لا علاقة له بمنصبه هناك، وإنما بما يفعله هناك، بالقيم التي تتحكم فيه بينما هو هناك، هل هو ملتصق بقيم الاستخلاف؟.. هل هو واعٍ في مهمته في الأرض؟ هل يؤدي ما يؤديه وقد وضع هذا نصب عينيه، قبل منصبه ؟ ↗

— أحمد خيري العمري

#change

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#eat-pray-love #elizabeth-gilbert #life #change

Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#cordelia #vorkosigan #change