#story

I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can’t help but glow. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#lightning-bugs #love #love-story #lovers #summer

I was completely and irrevocably in lust; which tends to make a person impassive to others’ pain. Love makes us compassionate. Lust makes us deaf to all but the lover. ↗

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

#lust #love

During an especially noisy elementary school assembly I witnessed a common marvel.  Someone spoke,"Once upon a time..." into the mic, and the room hushed.  Such magic never ceases to amaze me. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#magic #marvels #richelle #richelle-goodrich #stories

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#creators #dejan-stojanovic #history #ignorance #impotence

Orang yang memendam perasaan sering kli terjebak oleh hatinya sendiri. Sibuk merangkai semua kejadian disekitarnya untuk membenarkan hatinya berharap. Sibuk menghubungkan banyak hal agar hatinya senang menimbun mimpi. Sehingga suatu ketika dia tidak tahu lagi mana simpul yang nyata dan mana simpul yang dusta. ↗

— Tere Liye

#love

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#history #insult #education

I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#friendship #games #love #love-story #passion

And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done. ↗

— Anne Bartlett

#knitting #women #love

Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#crowd #love #love-story #lovers #romantic

Alice is fictional. This isn't. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#dark-humor #group-think #groupthink #lady-gaga #mad-magazine