#tori

...I’m restoring my foreskin because I was born with one, and damn it, I’m going to die with one. ↗

— Kristen O'Hara

#foreskin #male-genital-mutilation #restoring #love

Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me. ↗

— C.J. Archer

#historical-fantasy #love #sadness #sorrow #love

Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor. She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days." From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE ↗

— Destin Bays

#romance-novels #romantic #love

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out. ↗

— Joan Connor

#love #lovers #short-stories #love

I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don't want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#stories #words #inspirational

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#marriage #marriage

You were kidnapped not?" "I was kidnapped." "You were forced not into marriage?" "I was forced into marriage." "You want not an annulment?" "I want not an annulment. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sexes #change

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. ↗

— Myrna Ericksen

#historical-romance #humor #inspirational #mystery-suspense #humor

Stand for the Right" that "Wrong might take a Seat ↗

— Leona W. Smith

#historical-novel #inspirational #inspirational