#west

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #inspirational #literary-quote #love #poisoning-sylvie

Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud ↗

— Kanye West

#inspirational #kanye #west #inspirational

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#cal #peanut #peeps #poisoned #scott-westerfeld

I want a one hundred percent guarantee that they’ll all be fine.” I tell Mrs. Garcia. She pats my knee. “Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#mrs-garcia #life

From the Renaissance until today, Christianity, and also to some extent Judaism, in the West have had to carry out a constant battle against ideologies, philosophies, institutions and practices which are secular in nature and which challenge the authority of religion and in fact its very validity and legitimacy. These challenges to religion have varied from political ideas which are based on secularism to the denial of the religious foundation of morality and the philosophical denial of the reality of God and of the after life or of revelation and sacred scripture. The history of the West has been marked during the last few centuries by a constant battle between the forces of religion and secularism and in fact the gaining of the upper hand by secularism and consequently the denial of the reality of religion and its pertinence to various domains of life. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#secularism #western-civilization #life

she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#judith-mcnaught #love #whitney #whitney-my-love #love

With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing. ↗

— Tom Spanbauer

#sex #violence #western-culture #love

Jen's an impact player, a spoiled brat, a royal pain-in-the-ass, and she rewires me like nothing else. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#scott-westerfeld #so-yesterday #love

First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day. ↗

— Max Brand

#western #love

Men are a little different than women... We kind of regard virginity as something to dispose of as quickly as we're able to do so." Parker West ↗

— Emma Wildes

#men