#other

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. ↗

— John Green

#understanding

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#heart #mother #birth

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us. ↗

— John Green

#poverty #them #us #man

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood. ↗

— Julie B. Beck

#influence

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ↗

— Harper Lee

#people #scout #man

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter. ↗

— Anchee Min

#mother #womb #fighting

V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin. "Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#fantasy #jane-witcomb #paranormal #paranormal-romance #vampires

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lives #most #opinions #other #passions

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#helping-others #help