#roma

[bookcover:Lessons Learned|13578440] Another shot, and for some reason, I’m the only one who can’t move. Who can’t scream. Who can’t do anything but watch as the young man’s body slumps over his tray. Finally, I find my voice and scream his name. ↗

— Sydney Logan

#drama #family #love #romance #family

The Lord is much like the air around us. The air is all around us, it is everywhere. Even though we can't see it, it is there, we know it is there, because we are breathing. The Lord is everywhere too, you can't see Him, but He is there, we know He is there, because we are breathing. (Page 183) ↗

— Raymond D. Reifinger III

#religion #roman-catholic #spiritual #religion

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#classical #i #like #music #really

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. ↗

— Dave Barry

#empire #historical #just #like #now

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#christians #excitement #fed #hasn #lions

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. ↗

— Robert Welch

#balances #checks #elaborate #feature #form

It began with the twitch of her lower lip as it took on a life of its own, rippling outward to the corners of her mouth and forcing them upward into a helpless smile. She instantly clasped one hand over her mouth in a frantic attempt to silence the sound that was coming from her throat. The result was that she half-spluttered, half-coughed, her eyes painfully wide as she desperately wished a hole would emerge in the oriental carpet and mercifully swallow her up. ↗

— Sophie Barnes

#life

When you give your heart away, you usually get it back in pieces, fragments. And often, a great deal of time passes before you realize that every piece wasn’t returned to you—and probably never will be. You crave nothing more than to get those small—but vital—fragments back; to return to the unbroken, undamaged version of yourself. But what's been broken cannot be unbroken, and so all you can do is learn to live with the void of the missing pieces, to somehow find beauty in the wreckage. And so I did. Sophie Lenon ↗

— Krystal McLean

#broken-heart #dark #hope #lovers #romance

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love. ↗

— Beatrice Wood

#chance #had #i #i think #just