#wes

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition. ↗

— Andrzej Stasiuk

#western-culture #freedom

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises. ↗

— Wade Davis

#memories #past #present #promises #west

Alcoholism is...an incurable disease. You will have it for life. Just like you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber. ↗

— Hideo Azuma

#life

I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#love

I like a little fight in my girls." She grinned at him,causing blood to dribble down her chin. "Then you're going to love me. ↗

— Kady Cross

#love

Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#flying #goliath #love #scott-westerfeld #love

You could call him," Wes suggests. "Why be a spectator in the game of love? Take charge. Don't wait around and let the boy call all the shots." "As cheesy as all of that sounds," Kimmie adds. "Cheese or not,I know what I'm talking about." He sulks. "I've lived it. I've learned it." Kimmie lets out a laugh. "With who,Romeo? That Wendy girl you paid to date you?" "Oh, and because I don't have a dating history as big as your mouth, it doesn't quite measure up?" "I hate to break this to you, but that isn't the only thing of yours that doesn't measure up." "Wouldn't you like to know?" He grins. ↗

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

#kimmie #wes #humor

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#love

I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome! ↗

— Shreya Gunna

#besties #crazy #love #random-quote #love

My friends and I live in the American SW because we love it, and love it for its own sake - not merely because it's the last region of the forty-eight states to be buried under asphalt and greed. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#love