#tangled

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#domination #entangled #fatally #itself #reason

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#naive #oh #parents #tangled #their

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#love #tangled #love

She’s whimpering…moaning…gasping my name. Music to my frigging ears. ↗

— Emma Chase

#tangled #music

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. ↗

— Jane Addams

#apply #become #changed #conditions #entangled

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Karen Allen

#born #doing #done #go #hard

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#iraq #islamic #significant #tangled #very

Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#because #bureau #bureaus #deeply #embedded

But this kiss? This is one I won’t forget any time soon. She tastes…Jesus, I’ve never done drugs, but I imagine this is what that first snort of cocaine feels like, that first shot of heroine. Goddamn addictive. ↗

— Emma Chase

#tangled #imagination