#cross

keep looking at me like that," he warned, leaning casually into the counter and sipping his coffee. "see what happens." "i'm going to lose my job over you." "i'd give you another one." i snorted. "as what? your sex slave?" "what a provocative suggestion. let's discuss. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#crossfire-series #eva-tramell #gideon-cross #coffee

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment? ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#fiery-cross #accomplishments

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. ↗

— Ally Condie

#ally-condie #crossed #dystopia #dystopian-fiction #page-

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christian-living #cross #love #preach #violence

Most things in my life are anything but simple--but loving you is. I just do. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#romance #romancecrossed-lovers #life

I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes ↗

— Avenged Sevenfold

#crossroads #diamonds-in-the-rough #music #music

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#across #always #appreciate #because #come

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#countries #covering #europe #miles #ran

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#always #audience #connection #i #important

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#across #automatically #back #ball #because