Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot–more, even, than I could suffer–but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
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Tahereh Mafi
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
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Unknown
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry... I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
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Charles M. Schulz
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
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John Joseph Powell
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen...
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Margaret Atwood
More Quotes By J.D. Jordan
I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.
Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain’t trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what...
But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.
And in the silence what followed, I reckon our eyes had some long conversation our mouths could’ve never talked through. Some long, looking talk about things gone and long since said. About cries out in the night and some long ago tangling of limbs. And...
Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot–more, even, than I could suffer–but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.
