#from

If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else. ↗

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#the-unloved #the-unwanted #love

‎"Then, winking at him, I passed my tongue over the top, and all around the ice cream at the rim of the cone, filling my whole mouth and, just to look sexy, also licking the tips of my fingers. Then I came around the counter, swaying my hips real pretty, and steadying myself over the wobbly high heels. I came right up to him, and before he could guess what kind of trouble I had cooked up in my head, I kissed him—so sweet and so long—on his lips, to the shouts and outcries of the offended customer..." Anita, in Apart From Love ↗

— Uvi Poznansky

#love

Here’s a little secret that’s going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#happiness #happiness-comes-from-within #loving-yourself #positive-thinking #self-esteem

Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores. ↗

— Stephen King

#men

كانت أصعب مهمة بالنسبة إلى سوزان هي أن تتدرب على طلب ما تريد، قالت لي "لماذا يجب علي أن أطلب بعد كل ما فعلت من أجله؟!؛ وضحت لها أن تحمليه مسئولية معرفة رغباتها ليس فقط غير واقعي، بل هو سبب جزء كبير من مشكلتها. كانت تحتاج إلى أن تكون مسئولة عن جعل رغباتها تتحقق. ↗

— John Gray

#women-are-from-venus #men

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters; and the name of the star is called wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#men

God gives gifts to and also of men/women for His purposes in promoting the cause of Christ and His Kingdom". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #men

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets ↗

— Dean Koontz

#money

COWBOYS, just like the word says. ↗

— John Wayne

#movies

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#mentions-to-movies #sookie-stackhouse #movies