#patter

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#bad #clinging #family #like #love

I choose you," he said very softly, "Max." Then his hard, rough hand tenderly cuppoed my chin, and suddenly his mouth was on mine, and every synapse in my brain shorted out. We had kissed a couple of times before, but this was different. This time, I squelched my immediate, overwhelming desire to run away screaming. I closed my eyes and put my arms around him despite my fear. Then somehow we slid sideways so we were lying in the cool sand. I was holding him fiercely, and he was kissing me fiercely, and it was...just so, so intensely good. Once I got past my usual, gut-wrenching terror, there was a long, sweet slide into mindlessness, when all I felt was Fang, and all I heard was his breathing, and all I could think was "Oh, God, I wasnt to do this all the time. ↗

— James Patterson

#faxness #james-patterson #kiss #max #maximum-ride

Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing and radiant daughter… Here we may whisper unheard, unafraid of the night. Walking alone…was it splendor, or what, we were bound with? Deep in the time when summer lets down her hair? Shadows we loved and the patterns they covered the ground with Tapestries, mystical, faint in the breathless air. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#magical #mystical #patterns #poetry #shadows

If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#grow #honor #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #joy

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#narrative #necessity #never #pattern #wants

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. ↗

— Patti Digh

#change #patterns #pay-attention #change

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ↗

— Xun Zi

#conforms #desires #even #good #harm

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#building #counters #doing #each #experiment

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen. ↗

— H.A.L. Fisher

#destiny #europe #fate #harmony #history