#ture

It’s better to look at the sky than live there ↗

— Truman Capote

#love

Love is the only future God offers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #love #love

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#love #love

I promise I'll never tell." "Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If they try to hurt you and the only way to protect yourself is to tell them what you know about me, then you tell them. Straight off, okay?" "No." "Promise me." "No!" "I will possess your heart." Heat flared along the back of my neck. "What did you say?" "My favorite song. 'I Will Possess Your Heart.'" "By Death Cab for Cutie?" He snorted. "No, the little known T.I. Hip-hop remix. Yes, Death Cab for Cutie." ... "Why? What's wrong with it?" "Nothing, but it doesn't seem to fit you. It's kind of a sad song." "No it's pure confident. It's not 'I want' or 'I need', none of that crap." He slipped his hand over mine. "It's 'I will.'" A nervous laugh bubbled up. "You will, huh?" His fingers brushed my cheek, then slid into my hair. "I will. ↗

— Jeri Smith-Ready

#hope #humor #love #romance #death

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#nature

We've all got our own brand of crazy. ↗

— Meg Mitchell Moore

#nature

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#lucretius #wind #nature

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade. ↗

— Yann Martel

#faith

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ↗

— Paul Simon

#die #following #forever #grow #mature

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. ↗

— James Wood

#fiction #james-wood #literature #life