#iron

He cupped her face in his hands, made her meet his gaze. Solemnly, he said, “I heard you say that when two people love each other, they fight through everything together. Every doubt, every challenge, every pain. Fight with me, Mina. Please. You are the only one for me, for as long as I live. And if you love me, fight with me. ↗

— Meljean Brook

#the-iron-duke #love

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#irony #questions #love

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#love

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much! ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#levin #love #love

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet. ↗

— Samuel Park

#others #regret #love

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#logic #logical-thinking #men #satire #men

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924) ↗

— Anatole France

#irony #politics #men

I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men and from a dash of purely fashionable and literary communism. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#politics #society #men

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics

...I remember that my mother had always said to be polite and finish my meal. At last he gave no more struggles. The deed was done. Now the boat contained four men, not one heartbeat among us. The fate they had destined for another claimed them as well. The irony of it all was more delicious than the blood consumed. -- Quote by Lane DeLuca ↗

— Wynter Wilkins

#heartbeat #irony #strigoi #vampire #men