~IreneOust~

“Look at me, kitten.” I did and felt safe. Deacon wouldn’t let anything happen to me. “Who do you see?” he asked. “My master.” “I have you, darling.” He gripped my chin tightly. “I have you.”
― C.D. Reiss, Use

“She smiled back at him. Neither of them had said so much as hello yet she was looking at him with those eyes. Deep in the cathedral of his young being, Erik felt a bell toll, a peal of recognition. And for the rest of his life, he would swear, he would swear to anyone who asked, although nothing was said aloud, he heard Daisy Bianco speak to him. She said it with her eyes, he heard it clearly in his head, and it wasn’t hello.
It was, 'Well, here you are...'
Here I am, he thought.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois