#val

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#little-bee #survival #the-other-hand #beauty

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference. ↗

— Robert Coles

#story #value #imagination

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#pragmatism #values #love

...for most men are unaware that what is in the power of magicians to accomplish, that the heart can also accomplish by dint of love and bravery. ↗

— Joseph Bédier

#love

Run, sweetheart, run. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#heartbreak #hearts #horror #love #lovers

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#elizabeth-gaskell #flowers #friends #lily-of-the-valley #love

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator. ↗

— Francis Chan

#individuality #value #worth #love

But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#value #money

It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch." - Valek to Yelena ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#fantasy #fight #humor #valek #yelena

Jace was very pale, with hectic spots like fever on his cheekbones. "But it was Valentine. I saw him. In fact, he had the Sword with him when he came down to the cells and taunted me through the bars. It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #jace #valentine #humor