Natalie

“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket Ultimate Edition, Vol. 3

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
― Susan Sontag

“Cheng said, “You're a prince among men, Dick Gansey.” “More like a man among princes,” muttered Adam.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue