#rina

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans ↗

— Chris Rose

#new-orleans #life

People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way. ↗

— Ian McNulty

#hurricane-katrina #new-orleans #truth #life

When he’d started out, he’d expected to find his brother. What he’d never thought to find was the treasure that slept beside him now. Would you trade this to have Kieran back? It was a choice he was grateful he didn’t have to make. But in the end, he knew the truth. Catarina was his life. He would sacrifice anything for her. Anyone. ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#kinley-macgregor #lochlan #the-warrior #life

I love you, Lochlan,” she said, hating the fact that her voice broke as she spoke the words. “I will always love you and you alone. ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#kinley-macgregor #lochlan #the-warrior #love

Question for your life: If love covered as much of the earth’s surface as the oceans, would you still urinate in your wetsuit? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#ocean #oceans #urinate #wetsuit #life

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

Louis-Cesare. It's good to finally have you in hand. ↗

— Karen Chance

#dorina #dorina-basarab #humor #louis-cesare #sex

If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to believe that she herself, in losing her chief or only natural happiness, has not lost a greater thing, that she may still hope to "glorify God and enjoy Him forever." A comfort to the God-aimed, eternal spirit within her. But not to her motherhood. The specifically maternal happiness must be written off. Never, in any place or time, will she have her son on her knees, or bathe him, or tell him a story, or plan for his future, or see her grandchild. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death #grief #grieving #loss #miscarriage

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #right

It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens. ↗

— Ally Carter

#dreams