#aught

To paraphrase Woody Allen in Annie Hall, love was too weak a word for what I felt for that tiny crying creature who had my eyes, my mouth, my hair. I lurved my daughter, my Ava. I looved her. I lurfed her. ↗

— Melissa Senate

#father-s-love #love #love

Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed... ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#love #love

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love #love

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine. ↗

— Ahmad Shamlou

#love #sadness #tears #love

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective. ↗

— Phil Callaway

#life #life

Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one? ↗

— Kelly Braffet

#mother-and-daughter #passing-over #death

What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#men #mothers #pain #men

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#laughter #inspirational

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either ↗

— Golda Meir

#laughter #sorrow #sorrow

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous