#story

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice. ↗

— Andre Dubus

#short-story

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#change

Aaron snorted "That's so cheesy." "Well yeah. I am cheesy. I'm the king of cheese. You should know that by now. Aaron's eyes were dancing with amusement. "I prefer to call you classically romantic. ↗

— Cleon Lee

#love-story #romanticism #love

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment -daniel grigori (fallen) ↗

— daniel grigori

#love

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. ↗

— Harold Clarke Goddard

#love

If she would just let herself go I would be there to catch her if she fell but she wasn't ready to take that step yet." Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions ↗

— Elize Amornette

#books-romance #elize-amornette #elize-amornette-author #love-story #private-emotions-trilogy

Two is always better than one. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#lovers #menage #romance #romance-novel #love

Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight—intent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it—but I have to find a way to show her she’s mistaken her enemy, to explain to her that whoever suppresses fiction destroys life, and that everything disappears with it, all love, all desire. If the past is an invention, it’s not such a big deal. After all, the future’s an invention, and no one finds that hard to accept. ↗

— Enrique de Hériz

#storytelling #love

The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#fun-quotes #quotable #love

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#story-of-a-soul #faith