#y

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#gonzo-journalism #family

Toreth?" Warrick asked softly. He kept still, breathing slightly irregularly, until finally Warrick climbed into bed beside him. Then it was simply a question of timing the movement right so that they met in the middle, accidentally, and Warrick's arm slipped accidentally round him. Why, he wondered sleepily, did he still bother pretending? ↗

— Manna Francis

#family

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#family

My point is, I would never hurt you or your family.” I raised my chin at him. “If you tried to hurt my mother, I would totally kick your ass.” “Aha.” “Yes. You would be lying on the ground, crying, ‘No more, no more,’ and I would be kicking you in the stomach, wham, wham, wham!” He laughed softly. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#humor #jim #family

The fights are always the same ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#relationships #family

I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel. ↗

— Michelle Zink

#love #mistakes #family

Yet I am stuck in the idea of romance, a dreamer; I want to actually fall in love with a man, then marry him ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#fall-in-love #idea #love #marry #romance

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#country #noble #noble cause #our #sent

I was hoping they would put up flyers like they do for lost cats." He said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'hotstuff'." "You did not just say that." "You don't like 'hotstuff'? You think 'sweet cheeks' might be better? "Love crumpet'? Really? That last one's stretching it a bit. Though, technically my family is British- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #family

Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light. ↗

— Barbara Marciniak

#difficult #family