#tin

... Other students lived on campus and got drunk at parties. Other students dated and graduated and got married and led normal lives. She wanted to marry an ex-con and pretend being kidnapped had been a normal thing she could forget about. ... ↗

— Michelle D. Argyle

#kidnapped #neglected #stockholm-syndrome #dating

When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some point in their lives, so they had no illusions about whether or not the boys were “up to something. ↗

— Gary Reilly

#dating

It’s exactly what’s wrong with computer dating…people lie. ↗

— Christie Walker Bos

#stakeout-for-love #dating

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#mothers #dating

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#speech #writing #beauty

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty #charm #interesting-quotes #woman #beauty

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#deconstruction #influence #understanding #writing #communication

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's. ↗

— Dorianne Laux

#experience

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail. ↗

— Leon Uris

#inspirational #writing #anger