God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.
She hadn’t planned any of this, but her thoughts ran away with her, and she hated how pathetic she must sound. Poor little human needed the big bad angel to rescue her. Yuck.
Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.
Think, think … fog and storm … transported into a mystical land …” “I doubt that,” said Ralph. Several feet away from him lay a sea gull’s carcass. “It’s not really very mystical.
He had something in him, how he walked, how he carried himself with that carelessness, he wasn’t my type entirely, if I ever had a type of guy before him.
I never gave him a chance to decide if I was worth loving. I'd taken that choice away from him - because I feared what it would be.
Your love story, I don’t want to give away the ending, but both you and your lover die.
Love is an award you win by losing—or giving it away. Trophies collect dust, but love is the ultimate prize.
A string of burglaries is a crime necklace. Everything I have can be stolen except love, because I give it all away.
We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.
This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.
When I was laying there in his arms nothing else mattered. My parents, my lack of funds, everything just seemed to melt away as I was lost in his lips"- Bentley Evans
[...] the body is what we lean toward, tensing as it darts, dancing away. but it's the voice that enters us. even saying nothing. even saying nothing over and over absently to itself
Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.
Remember that worrying will not go away by thinking the same thought again and again. Thinking something fresh, loving and uplifting instead of worrying. Replace your worse anxiety with cheerful optimism.
The best present is wrapped in fur. And when you shake the package, it meows. Give the gift of love, before it runs away and gets run over.
I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.
You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.
Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in that changed self!
