#tween

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. ↗

— Huston Smith

#bag #belief #between #capacity #credulity

Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isabel.’ ‘That’s why you can trust me to win it for you,’ he says simply. ‘When your interests and mine are the same, you can be certain that I will care for you as for myself. You will be my own. You will find that I care for my own.’ ‘You will be true to me?’ ‘Loyalty is my motto. When I give my word, you can trust me. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#equality-between-partners #husband-and-wife #love #loyalty #marriage

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. ↗

— Rod Serling

#beyond #dimension #fifth #ground #infinity

The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her? ↗

— Samantha van Leer

#jodi-picoult #love #samantha-van-leer #love

...we live in a different world, you and me - governed by different laws... ↗

— John Geddes

#men

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it. ↗

— John Stott

#religion #theology #religion

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#blur #fans #get #line #players

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. ↗

— Aeschylus

#bigger #guarded #love #man #married

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines. ↗

— Robert Wise

#between #having #kind #lines #say

Eva was a between-the-lines talker. She left the sayable unsaid and said what she meant without saying it. ↗

— Robert Wilson

#death