“Love is all the small moments. It is what fills the quiet.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“And as soon as he was gone, I saw beyond, to where Lincoln stood, exactly where I'd seen him last, when I'd begged him to trust me.
And my heart shuttered to life.
Because he had.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“You don’t get it – you never will! You want to run towards the fire to save me even when I’m the one carrying the bucket of water. You can’t help
yourself!’
Lincoln threw his hands wide. ‘Because I fucking love you!”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“His words were so...Phoenix. A complication”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“I breathe you. I live you. I love you”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, this room and me not know about it?”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“This will be for life. For eternity, human and beyond. More than any commitment, than any marriage. Violet, are you ready to marry me?”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Am I not allowed to want your happiness because it conflicts with my own?”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“I need you to live for me”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“started to sit up, but his hand snaked around my stomach and pulled me back to him. “You should try to get some more sleep,” he said. “I can’t,” I said. “Not until this is over.” He sat up beside me, taking my hand in his and quickly kissing the back of it before suggesting, “Run?” The man knows me. I glanced out the small window. The sun was yet to appear on the horizon and rain fell lightly, but the wind had eased for now. I beamed. “Coffee first.” He laughed as he stood up and tossed me a T-shirt. “Coffee first.” And it turns out, even when the world might be about to end, a girl can still swoon.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Matthew 7:14”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, THIS ROOM and me not know about it??”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“Love is never lost—only ever waiting to be found.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Empower
“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.”
― John Irving, quote from The Cider House Rules
“And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― Tim O'Brien, quote from The Things They Carried
“If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. JULIET Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. ROMEO Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? JULIET Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. ROMEO O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. JULIET Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. ROMEO Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. JULIET Then have my lips the sin that they have took. ROMEO Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Complete Works
“You mustn't hurt him. Let him go”
― Johanna Spyri, quote from Heidi
“As long as she loves me and I love her, what difference does religion make?”
― Judy Blume, quote from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
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