#ado

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain. ↗

— Steven James

#cruelty #freedom #god #jesus #paradox

Death cannot stop true love. That’s why it’s pointless for me to try to murder all my adoring female fans. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#adore #adoring #adulation #death #delusion

The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar?
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— Jarod Kintz

#friendship #liar #lying #man #paradox

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#childhood #descriptions #friend #friends #friendship

I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection. ↗

— Jana Wolff

#friendship

You knocked the door down." Disbelief rang in his matter-of-fact tone. "I know," she answered,unable to say anything else. Unable to look away from his body. "But it's solid oak." "I know." She felt the solid oak beneath her and a little shocked that she'd done it, too. If it mattered at all, her shoulder felt a little bruised. And it was the slight pain that brought some reality back into the moment. "You don't have any clothes on." Oh, God, did she really say that? ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#funny #kylie #shadow-falls #funny

If you don't want me to be in love with you, you're going to have looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow, I'm having your maids sewing potato sacks to gether for you. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#maxon #most-adorably-sweet-quotes-ever #funny

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#art #love #pottery #art

I hold my daughter in my arms and thank God for bringing her to me. If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. I know now why all those events happened. Or didn't happen. So I could meet this little girl. She is, in every way, my daughter. I am carrying my Funny Gift from God and all is good. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#family

Shall we all open our heart to be a forever home for lost pets. ↗

— Martha Steward

#animal-stories #pet-adoption #home