#ros

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#came #catalyst #helped #over #pete

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#i #past #retrospect

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bed-of-roses #love #marriage #matrimony #war

Reinvent freedom. Live to inspire. ↗

— Louise Philippe Dulay

#campaign #free #freedom #inspiration #inspire

Days grow hotter and life grows shorter. Time is somehow running out. She flips her pillow so she won't have to sleep on her tears. ↗

— Toby Barlow

#life

In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky? ↗

— Damon Knight

#onomatopoeia #prose-poetry #urban-life #life

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#jamie-fraser #outlander #love

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#love #magic #rosemary #salt #superstition

I would rather be a womaniser than a sodomiser. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-female-relationships #sodomy #womaniser #relationship

I love. The most reckless thing of all. ↗

— Ally Condie

#ky #love #love