#esa

You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. ‘Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele’ You will give your fire so that Man may live. And he will give his heart so that earth may live. Thus it has been spoken. ↗

— Lani Wendt Young

#mythology #romance #samoa #telesa #young-adult

PESAN SEORANG AYAH KEPADA ANAK LELAKI: Kau harus berani mengatakan "tidak" untuk yang salah dan "ya" untuk yang benar. Kau harus melindungi martabat rumahmu dengan menjaga saudara-saudara perempuanmu dan ibumu. Kau harus berani melindungi yang tertindas. Dan jika kau berkeluarga nanti, kau sudah mati sebagai lelaki, tapi kau berganti menjadi suami dan ayah. Kau harus selalu pulang ke rumah dan mengabdi kepada istri dan anak-anakmu. Kau harus bekerja dan menafkahi mereka. Kau harus jadi ayah dan suami yang bisa menjaga kehormatan mereka. ↗

— Gola Gong

#ya

I loved him so, even his past was precious to me. I found myself kissing each mark, thinking, I would have had it never happen, I would wish it away, taking him further and further back to a time when he had known no disappointments, no battles, no wounds, as I erased each one. To make him again like Caesarion. Yet if we take the past away from those we love - even to protect them - do we not steal their very selves? ↗

— Margaret George

#cleopatra #love #love

Noses run. Feet smell. ↗

— Teresa Monachino

#funny #teresa-monahcino #wordplay #words-fail-me #funny

I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers." "Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude. ↗

— James Dashner

#epic #humor #ninjas #humor

Jangan mencari yang besar-besar, cukup mengerjakan yang kecil-kecil dengan cinta yang besar. Makin kecil yang kita hadapi harus makin besar cinta yang kita berikan ↗

— Mother Teresa

#cinta #kecil #cinta

And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again. ↗

— James Dashner

#love #teresa #thomas #love

Teresa stood up, surprising Thomas with her confidence. “Guess he forgot to tell the little part about me kicking him in the groin and climbing out the window.” Thomas almost laughed as Newt turned to an older boy standing nearby, whose face had turned bright red. “Congrats, Jeff,” Newt said. “You’re officially the first guy here to get your butt beat by a girl. ↗

— James Dashner

#maze-runner #teresa #humor

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#julius-caesar #mark-antony #william-shakespeare #death

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death