"He loves so wholly. It is his nature. He blinks, then tries to find the right response. "I-" he stumbles. "I'm so afraid, June. So afraid of what might happen to-" I put two fingers against his lips to hush him. "Fear makes you stronger," I whisper. Before I can stop myself, I put my hands on his face and press my mouth to his."

-- Marie Lu

#Hands Quotes #Two Quotes #June Quotes

“Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.”
“Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.”
“As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because itâ€™s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then itâ€™s gone forever.”

Source : "Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: "Passing Through Gethsemane"/jms speaks". www.midwinter.com. July 13, 2004.
“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter...”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge
“Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.184
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
“You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.”
“I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.”

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