#lines

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#empathy #loneliness #love #love

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner. Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus. But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran. ↗

— Emmy Laybourne

#monument- #love

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#loneliness #marriage #single #spinsterhood #marriage

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#people #scared #world #men

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#music #refuge #music

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#into #loveliness #lovely #never #other

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cleanliness #housekeeping #experience

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#extensive #great #information #lines #machines

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#code #complicated #detailed #guidelines #irs

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#bush #elected #five #judges #lines