#tin

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#create #exhaust #fascinating #hard #impression

Goodbye," she said. When I didn't say it back, she rested her hand on the top of my head. The weight was strange and gentle. "I love you," she said. "And when I tell you goodbye, I don't mean forever or for long. Just that I'm going home now, and so are you. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#goodbyes #love #parting #love

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing. ↗

— Elyse Fitzpatrick

#parenting #love

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dreams

Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of. ↗

— Elizabeth Hand

#destiny #love #love

I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#love

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#centuries #contemporary #context #epiphany #exciting

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#cartoons #drop #head #i #keep

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#reading #writing #work

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #writing #dreams