#sons

You’re going to castrate them if they give me a sideways glance?” He looked at the ground. “I’m not bringing you to the safest place and you’re beautiful, so I needed to warn them.” “I’m beautiful?” I repeated trying not to smile. “Don’t let it go to your head, darling.” He said holding his hand out for me. “You’re not too bad yourself.” “I know. I saw the way you stared at me when I took my shirt off.” Hunter said. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#in-between-seasons #post-apocalyptic #ya-dystopian #ya-romance #beauty

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. ↗

— John le Carre

#doing #dozen #eternal #good #nothing

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#fought #had #led #lessons #men

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#bottom #ever #found #had #i

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames. ↗

— Coolio

#beat #i #me #never #sons

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#everyone #learn #lessons #them #who

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#break #hearts #including #lessons #life

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them. ↗

— Princess Diana

#live #lost #sons #them #without

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. ↗

— Barry Diller

#made #painful #reality #reasons #too

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past. ↗

— Heinz Fischer

#critically #even #examined #learned #lessons