#mare

Every pain is a lesson. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#lesson #lessons #pain #perseverance #the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

She wasn’t huge or anything, but she wasn’t one of the super slim women or the curvy ones who looked lush and beautiful. She was just sort of in between and . . . blah. “Give a mint to know what you’re thinking right now,” Steele muttered. “I’m blah,” she blurted out. ↗

— Maya Banks

#steele #beauty

Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window. ↗

— Margaret George

#imagination

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#humor #marek #song-for-summer #humor

A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#dream #goal #inspirational #investing #living-nightmare

Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends’ corpses in the light of their burning school. Skeletons ripping open men's chests and crawling inside. She endures it patiently, waiting for the horror film to end and the theater to go dark, those precious few hours of blackout that are her only respite. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#dystopia #nightmares #tragic #men

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#the-matchmaker-of-kenmare #business