#ros

Courage is the chiaroscuro of characteristics. By that I mean I don’t know what I mean.
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— Jarod Kintz

#chiaroscuro #courage #meaning #courage

Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve. ↗

— Stephen T. Harper

#fantastic-prose #just-plain-wow-writing #courage

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #death

You approve?" I asked, spinning around. He slipped an arm around my waist. "Unfortunately, yes. I was hoping you'd show up in something a lot sluttier. Something that would scandalize my parents." "Sometimes it's like you don't even care about me as a person," I observed as we walked inside. "It's like you're just using me for shock value." "It's both, little dhampir. I care about you, and I'm using you for shock value. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose #spirit-bound #parenting

Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #michael-glass #parents #reba #shane-collins

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#cross #intercourse #orgasm #religion #salvation

I'll pray for you." "That's very kind of you." "I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get a decade about once a week. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#prayer #religion #rosary #religion

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#family-relationships #love #loved-ones #rosamund-lupton #sister

Monsters don't heal people. Angels do. - Sabrina ↗

— Donna Galanti

#prostitute #science-fiction #science

It's only their fight club, Liss," I said, having no need for her side of the conversation, "Nothing's going on. They're going to talk punches and kicking and other boring stuff." Well, actually that stuff was pretty sweet, but I wasn't about to glorify Christian and Mia hanging out. "Maybe now nothing's going on," she growled, staring stonily ahead. "But who knows what could happen? They spend time together, practice some physical moves, one thing leads to another—" "That's ridiculous," I said. "That kind of stuff isn't romantic at all." Another lie, seeing as that was exactly how my relationship with Dimitri had begun. Again, best not to mention that. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lissa #rose #romantic