#reflect

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold And like the sky my soul is also turnin' Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind ↗

— Ray Lamontagne

#epiphany #gold #heart #moving-on #redemption

We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#angel #crossfire #love #reflected #romance

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#war #wwi #love

..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#reflections #movies

When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes, covered in mud and filth, and put on the clothes an ambassador would wear. Decently dressed, I enter the ancient courts of rulers who have long since died. There I am warmly welcomed, and I feed on the only food I find nourishing, and was born to savor. I am not ashamed to talk to them, and to ask them to explain their actions. And they, out of kindness, answer me. Four hours go by without my feeling any anxiety. I forget every worry. I am no longer afraid of poverty, or frightened of death. I live entirely through them. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#reflection #study #death

Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love. ↗

— Doreen Virtue

#creativity #divine #god #love #mirror

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#been #before #better #business #business leaders

I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Angeline M. Bishop

#novels #passion #reflection #romance #writers

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Angeline M. Bishop

#novels #passion #reflection #romance #writers

Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned. ↗

— Susan Howe

#love