#shatter

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#hate #inspirational #love #shatter-me #young-adult

Tell me something good about your life," I whispered, needing to hear that he wasn't as broken as I thought him to be. Peter breathed into the handset for about two minutes. I began wondering if he was about to hang up, or had fallen asleep, when he answered. "You." It was so quiet I almost didn't hear it. And then he hung up before I could ask him to repeat himself. I fell asleep, grinning, with the phone still clutched in my hand and my milk souring on the coffee table. ↗

— Dani Alexander

#gay #gay-romance #glbt #m-m-romance #shattered-glass

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art of war #best #country #destroy #enemy

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#believe #ceiling #face #glass #i

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. ↗

— Cornel West

#because #black #excited #i #i am

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#center #communal #fascist #mass #movement

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#eternal #his #human #human being #individual

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#everything #just #mothers #shatter #start

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#capitalism #donkey #foundations #i #like