#mac

Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. ↗

— Lynn Margulis

#evolution #macro-evolution #macroevolution #speciation #change

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say. ↗

— Mark Polish

#falling-in-love #flo #for-lovers-only #heart #in-bed-with

I guess love is not the priority; you wouldn’t fall in love with an empty stomach. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #priority #love

And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. "You canna do this - take my goddamned heart and then leave me! You think I will no' follow?" She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak. At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#ethan-maccarrick #inspirational #love #maddy #romance

When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss of a midnight moon ends, drop sweet nothings to fill my ear. Too many years to be sincere, and too many lost favorites that were never there. A tear or two, and maybe three; apathy is-and may not be me. ↗

— Melody Aurora

#betrayal #intimacy #longing #love #sad

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intimacy #love

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#modernity #nostalgia #men

God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ. ↗

— John Piper

#sex-and-the-supremacy-of-christ #marriage

Beni öldürmen korkunç bir hata olur. Ailemdekı kadınlar kötü bir şekilde öldürüldükleri takdirde, hayalet olarak geri dönme eğilimindedir." Thomas'ın bakışları Fia'nın gözlerine kilitlendi. "Hayalet mi?" "Evet, süzülen beyaz elbisemi giyinir, boğazımdan acı sesler çıkarırım. Böyle bir şeyi görmekten pek hoşlanmazsın. ↗

— Karen Hawkins

#much-adı-about-marriage #sen-kimseyi-sevemezsin #marriage

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others. ↗

— John Piper

#sex-and-the-supremacy-of-christ #love