#tell

I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. ↗

— James E. Faust

#integrity #truth-telling #love

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#story #storytelling #dreams

...He wanted to tell her that all at once he fell madly in love with everything about her, the way she kissed, the taste of her lips, her voice, her smell, her nearness…but such a premature confession at this point could make her suspicious of his intelligence." From The Cartesian Machine ↗

— Nick Tran

#intelligence

If I were a zombie I'd never eat your brain I'd just want your heart ↗

— Stephanie Mabey

#heart #love #storyteller #zombie #love

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#insanity #intelligence #sanity #intelligence

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#intellect #men

I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they’re more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men. ↗

— Gabriella Mistral

#intellectual #men