#v

The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, and adrenaline. A crazy idea, no kidding, and she wasn't entirely convinced yet, but maybe, just maybe, she could be something more than a thief? ↗

— Greg Cox

#parker #thief #money

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #materialism #mind #money #objects

I survive at the edge of friends circles. ↗

— Holly Black

#dark #deceit #friends #lie #motives

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ↗

— Aristotle

#motivational #wisdom #motivational

f you want to be famous then run for office and be a politician. If you want to be rich then become a plastic surgeon. If you want to have people know your name then be a teacher. If you want to make a difference in someone’s life then have children. But if you want to work alone, feel like a freak, be misunderstood, wonder what the point is, always come up short of time and money, while writing stories that bubble up from within about characters you have never met but are strangely in love with, then be a writer. ↗

— Karen Jones Gowen

#love

I'd give up everything for him, but then what? He has no job, I have no money, and we both live in a box. Love sucks. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#love

كل العلاقات الإنسانية ظاهرها الحب و باطنها المنفعة ↗

— أنيس منصور

#relationships #love

I would have to ask her, just to make certain I'd done everything I could. But I'd warn her. I have no money, no prospects, an exceedingly ugly face, and my dearest friend is the King of Hell." "You think that would stop her?" "I have no idea. Would it, Lydia?" "Nothing would stop her, if she loved you. And she does, Charles. She loves your pretty face and you scarred face. She loves your past and your present and she most especially loves your future. Just ask." "Marry me, Lydia. ↗

— Anne Stuart

#love

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. ↗

— George Eliot

#truth #motivational

Because obviously the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. If only life were that great--instead of burnt flesh and turning into ash we had money-giving fairies, bunnies laying pink eggs, and fat men coming down my chimney bearing presents.... ↗

— Christina Channelle

#ya-fantasy #ya-fantasy-series #ya-romance #men