#tin

Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#crime-fiction #drama #e-l-james #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey

Love couldn’t be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies—skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn’t deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#destiny #eternal-love #gavin-devereaux #love #resistance-trilogy

I want my girls to see their relationship with me as a place of refuge, a place they can retreat to for honesty, unconditional love, and support. I want to teach them and have them trust me, not fear me. I want to preserve the gentle souls that I see in them." -Liz. M. ↗

— Hilary Flower

#love

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#pain #poetry #poetry-quotes #sadness #suffering

Then the syncretist Ficino, sitting hunched with Lorenzo standing at his side, put all the ideas together, along with Lorenzo's new song: chariots blazing between the worlds as gods fought rebel gods, the destruction of a city -- a planet? -- by fire, beasts beyond imagining both to terrify and befriend the heroes. "It needs a title," Signorina Scala said. Pulci had his mouth open, but Ficino beat him to the pun. "It shall be dedicated to Isis and Mars," he said, "and we will call it Stella Martis. ↗

— John M. Ford

#john-m-ford #star-wars #the-dragon-waiting #imagination

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #god #physics #imagination

What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

You can use a brick and blanket to create a brick-to-blanket ratio. With the brick-to-blanket ratio you divide the market value of a brick to the book value of a blanket, and you come up with a meaningless ratio that allows you to “evaluate” a company, it’s similar to the market-to-book ratio. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #business

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins. ↗

— Paula McLain

#humor #writing #funny

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul... ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#kids-funny #parenting #suffering #funny