#ship

Although erotica authors are being targeted, this is an issue that should concern all indie authors. It affects indies disproportionately because indies are the ones pushing the boundaries of fiction. Indies are the ones out there publishing without the (fading) protective patina of a "traditional publisher" to lend them legitimacy. We indies only have each other. ↗

— Mark Coker

#indie-writing #censorship

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hell #overcoming-adversity #richelle #richelle-goodrich #suffering

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#stewardship #environmentalism

I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam! -- they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#boys #crying #relationships #richelle #richelle-goodrich

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. ↗

— Giotto di Bondone

#friends #lights #nights #ship #sincere

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship. ↗

— Lactantius

#also #being #benefits #conferred #entitled

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God. ↗

— Lactantius

#believe #ceases #god #him #his

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple. ↗

— Cheryl Ladd

#god #golf #golf game #i #life

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#maneuvering #men #much #other #relationships

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#family #felt #higher #mentally #money