#lend

Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a trecherous illusion".. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#love

You can talk to him, you're comfortable with him...glad when he is glad, sad when he's unhappy..he's your man, out of all the world. ↗

— Helen Markley Miller

#kit-melendy #love #sagebrush-ranch #your-man #love

No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself. John wasn't unaware that he was about to pull one of the greatest about-faces in history. He could only hope that Belle would understand that he had realized she'd had been right all along. People made mistakes, didn't they? After all, he wasn't some infallible storybook hero. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#splendid #marriage

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#blending #compassion #compassionate #intelligence #intelligent

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#had #heard #his #man #naked

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy ↗

— Henry Miller

#crazy

Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right up there with lockers. In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it's so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all. ↗

— Kiersten White

#lend #paranormalcy #right

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#blending-in #lonely

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ↗

— Anatole France

#lending #library #library

Wait-you mean the Mall, as in a bunch of museums in DC that we would wander around and I'd pretend like I understood modern art while really thinking, holy crap, a gremlin could have painted that and for all we know did, or the mall, as in picking out a new pair of shoes, eating food that's terrible for us, and making up life stories for all the people that pass us?" 'I can see now that I must have meant the second.' "What a smart boy. ↗

— Kiersten White

#lend #mall #sarcastic #art