#red

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#american public #being #being lied to #lied #public

You are the sun and the moon to me. ↗

— Kathleen Duey

#sacred-scars #love

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#america #been #capital #credibility #crucial

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. ↗

— Edward Lear

#built #feared #four #hen #i

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

If I am not moving I get bored very easily. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#bored #easily #get #i #i am

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#hatred #freedom

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

#gave #given #i #me #more

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#childless #desire #divorced #figured #got