#i

Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing: that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#faith

What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light. ↗

— Julia Green

#hope #life #love #second-chances #forgiveness

You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn't bother you so much. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-virgin-suicides #you-never-get-over-it #suicide

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. ↗

— George Orwell

#physics

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#physics

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#physics

Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame," I mumbled. "What?" "Nothing. Go on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#kane-chronicles #sadie #physics

Is he all scarred now? Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally. ↗

— Derek Landy

#physics

Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass. ↗

— Ally Carter

#pain #physics

You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren't their friend. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#physics