#w

Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#ichthyocentaur #leo #lobster-claws #mark-of-athena #valdez

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ↗

— Mark Twain

#loyalty

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. ↗

— Criss Jami

#living #passion #patience #peace #perfection

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #america

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#america #war #america

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#heartbreak #heartbreak

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#sensitive #warm-hearts #heartbreak

It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#heartbreak #lizzie #wick #heartbreak

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#heartbreak

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#human race #knock #never #out #patriotism