#cut

Do you think we can just take it on faith right now that I want you, you want me, and we'll figure out the happy ending part later? ↗

— Katie McGarry

#faith

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cookie #cute #faithfulness #funny #god

In addition to the kind of critical reflection on one's previous assumptive or tacit system of values we saw Jack undertake, there must be, for Stage 4, a relocation of authority within the self. While others and their judgments will remain important to the Individuative-Reflective person, their expectations, advice and counsel will be submitted to an internal panel of experts who reserve the right to choose and who are prepared to take responsibility for their choices. I sometimes call this the emergence of the executive ego. The two essential features of the emergence of Stage 4, then, are the critical distancing from one's previous assumptive value system and the emergence of the executive ego. . . . We find that sometimes many persons complete half of this double movement, but do not complete the other. ↗

— James W. Fowler

#faith #stage- #faith

For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone-- my teachers, my family-- from the knowledge of my cutting. What they did not know would not cause them pain. ↗

— Caroline Kettlewell

#hidden #family

Once I had her hand, I never wanted to let go of her. ↗

— Ottilie Weber

#holding-hands #love #not-letting-go #family

My own family were far from perfect, yet I thanked the Lord that I had them, even if they did sometimes make me want to kill them all. ↗

— Wade Chris

#family #family

If it were legal, I'd marry food. -Niall Horan ↗

— Niall Horan

#food

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake #executioner #fiction #hunter #jean-claude

She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food. ↗

— Martin Amis

#observational #food

She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free... ↗

— Sarah Waters

#haircuts #lesbian #transgender #freedom