#un

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#mind #run #straight #confusion

You won't tell?" "I'll add it to the box under my bed labeled 'The Secret Confession of the Immortal Pia'. Good Lord, girl, don't look so mortified. There's not actually a box. ↗

— Jessica Khoury

#harriet #pia #funny

I am the burrito in the taco. Hold your skepticism, and the lettuce. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #funny

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assumption #bias #blame #extroversion #extroverts

But how did you know where we were?" Annabeth asked. Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#chiron #grover-underwood #percy-jackson #monsters

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#fun #good #today #tomorrow

Annabelle’s eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like an ache in her body. “I realized something,” she said huskily, “when I was standing outside the foundry, watching it burn and knowing you were inside.” She swallowed hard against the thickness in her throat. “I would rather have died in your arms, Simon, than face a lifetime without you. All those endless years… all those winters, summers… a hundred seasons of wanting you and never having you. Growing old, while you stayed eternally young in my memories.” She bit her lip and shook her head, while her eyes flooded. “I was wrong when I told you that I didn’t know where I belonged. I do. With you, Simon. Nothing matters except being with you. You’re stuck with me forever, and I’ll never listen when you tell me to go.” She managed a tremulous smile. “So you may as well stop complaining and resign yourself to it. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#hunt #simon #wallflower #winter

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. ↗

— Ann Richards

#believe #mistake #recovery #responsibility #responsible

Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #breakups #college #creativity #dating

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#community #environmentalism #japan #sustainability #art