“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
“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, quote from The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still”
― quote from Inherit the Wind
“But I trusted him once and I decide to do it again. I just pray to God he doesn’t shove me down and break me, because I’m already in too many pieces and I just don’t know how much more breaking I can take.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
“Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.”
― Chuck Klosterman, quote from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, quote from Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
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