#th

The moment the door closed behind him, Tessa was in Will's arms, her hands locked about his neck. "Oh, by the Angel," she said. "That was mortifying." Will slid his hands into her hair and was kissing her, kissing her eyelids and her cheeks and then her mouth, quickly but with fervor and concentration, as if nothing could be more important. "Listen to you," he said. "You said 'by the angel.' Like a Shadowhunter." He kissed the side of her mouth. "I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #mortifying #p- #love

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#believe #bottom #enough #fairies #garden

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#excellence #habit #repeatedly #then

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ↗

— Aristotle

#able #accepting #educated #entertain #mark

One person's craziness is another person's reality. ↗

— Tim Burton

#craziness #person #reality

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#events #find #mind #outside #over

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ↗

— Jane Austen

#education #expense #further #girl #give

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #charming #divide #either #good

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. ↗

— Jane Austen

#deal #great #great deal #i #i do

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ↗

— Jane Austen

#fortune #good #good fortune #man #must