My eyes filled with tears. Damn him for reeling me in and throwing me back like this. “Don’t,” he said softly. “Just go. You’ve humiliated me enough.” “You don’t know—” “Then tell me!” I clenched my hands into fists at my sides. “Fu**ing tell me or don’t, but stop playing these games (Brenda Rothert, Barely Breathing)
I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul – but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames.
I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul – but is love an illness to be cured? All I endeavored to oppose to it merely fanned its flames.
my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit,” Ridgeway said. “All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. One destiny by divine perscription–the American imperative
my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit,” Ridgeway said. “All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. One destiny by divine perscription–the American imperative (Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad)
How to stop time: kiss.How to travel in time: read.How to escape time: music.How to feel time: write.How to release time: breathe
How to stop time: kiss.How to travel in time: read.How to escape time: music.How to feel time: write.How to release time: breathe (Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive)
A guy’s biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you’ve got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you’re fine
A guy’s biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you’ve got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you’re fine (Luke Evans)
There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror
There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror (Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura)
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,” Amos liked to say. “Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,” Amos liked to say. “Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens (Michael Lewis)
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction (Stockwell Day)
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. (William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin)
In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator
In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator (Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror)