#will

I need a Kleenex.” She sniffs. Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his sweatshirt, and wipes her nose with it. “That’s romantic,” she says, embarrassed. “Well, it is sort of, because I wouldn’t do it for anybody else in the world. ↗

— Julia Hoban

#hoban #julia #scared #willow #romantic

The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked to inflict on him. Thus, at first, I would have been content with an electoral defeat, a cooling of public enthusiasm. Later I already required his imprisonment; still later, his exile to some distant, flat island with a single palm tree, which, like a black asterisk, refers one to the bottom of an eternal hell made of solitude, disgrace, and helplessness. Now, at last, nothing but his death could satisfy me. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#death

Clint’s body count was now up to five—six including the vegetable. Killing was becoming a habit, and Clint realized that it was starting to bother him less each time. He feared that he was becoming desensitized to death, too accustomed to killing. ↗

— William T. Prince

#prince #sasquatch #william #death

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#christ #christian #god #inspirational #jesus

For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#love #mysticism #will #business

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right. ↗

— Jonathan Turley

#far right #like #question #rehnquist #right

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#away #i #me #only #praise

Our lips crashed together as she raised herself off the bed, meeting my body with hers. We made out like we were teenagers again. I swore I hadn’t kissed anyone as lovingly and full with passion as I did with Emma. ↗

— Alexandria Rhodes

#romance-sexy #sexy #will-roberts #love

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#does #else #god #i #live