#sparks

Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#city-of-ember #friendship #jeanne-duprau #lef-out #loneliness

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #nicholas-sparks #the-rescue #youth #life

No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #love

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #motion #sparks #love

There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to surprise his wife with flowers, it baffled him. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. He'd never seen Kim and J.P. kiss, let alone argue. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#couples #intensity #love #passion #romance

Photography is the story I fail to put into words. ↗

— Destin Sparks

#landscape-photography #photography #photography-quotes #photography

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#attributes #comes #elation #halo #her

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#catalyst #causes #chain #events #extraordinary

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#blazing #blue #burning #cat #eyes

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beings #come #creator #even #fire