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MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 1m

There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 1m

Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 1m

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 1m

You see, every piece of the puzzle is required to complete the scene, while some have rough edges and some smooth, they all have value. Being grateful for each piece is not always easy, but it is necessary.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 1m

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 1m

Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 1m

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 2m

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 2m

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 2m

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 3m

Knowing that this is what it means to live. That this love, this need is what drives us to push and fight and build and grow. That as long as there's hope and love in this world, there will always be the living.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 3m

Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 3m

Have you noticed ... that he actually hadn't made any promises to you?

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 3m

Because courage, survival, love—all these things didn’t live in one man. They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 4m

Stories aren't facts, Cait, they're not details. Stories are feelings. You've got your feelings, haven't you?""Too many," I said."Well, that's all you need." He put his hand on mine. "Cry yourself a story, love. It works. Believe me."So that's what I did, I cried myself a story.And this is it.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 4m

I avoided my eyes while brushing my teeth, then climbed into bed with a copy of _The Blind Assassin_, because if you're not with the book you want, you might as well want the book you're with.--Melissa Albert, _The Hazel Wood_

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 4m

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 4m

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 5m

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 5m

...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert's sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 5m

The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 6m

Do the things you like to be happier, stronger & more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 6m

That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 6m

Amidst the dim & desolate backdrop that was my world, a seed of hope bloomed into a garden of joyous wonder.

MobiQuotes @mobiquotes.bsky.social · 6m

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.