46041. “If all you do it “live with it”… then that’s not much of a life.” ― Ichigo Takano April 3, 2022
46040. “I started at the beginning, the escape. Fleeing through the forest, meeting a new danger at every turn, the desperation that came with trying to protect everyone when you could barely take care of yourself. The boy with the bottomless dark eyes, the betrayal, the fire, the smoke. And by the time I realized I had told him my own story, Jude was fast asleep, tucked firmly into dreams.” ― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade April 3, 2022
46039. “I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I’d left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.” ― Alexandra Bracken April 3, 2022
46038. “If you ever cry alone again…or even if the day comes where you just find living to be painful…then I promise I’ll save you again and again.” ― Takano Ichigo April 3, 2022
46037. “All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince” ― ilana Graf April 3, 2022
46036. “Peeling an Orange Between you and a bowl of oranges I lie nude Reading The World’s Illusion through my tears. You reach across me hungry for global fruit, Your bare arm hard, furry and warm on my belly. Your fingers pry the skin of a naval orange Releasing tiny explosions of spicy oil. You place peeled disks of gold in a bizarre pattern On my white body. Rearranging, you bend and bite The disks to release further their eager scent. I say “Stop, you’re tickling,” my eyes still on the page. Aromas of groves arise. Through green leaves Glow the lofty snows. Through red lips Your white teeth close on a translucent segment. Your face over my face eclipses The World’s Illusion. Pulp and juice pass into my mouth from your mouth. We laugh against each other’s lips. I hold my book Behind your head, still reading, still weeping a little. You say “Read on, I’m just an illusion,” rolling Over upon me soothingly, gently unmoving, Smiling greenly through long lashes. And soon I say “Don’t stop. Don’t disillusion me.” Snows melt. The mountain silvers into many a stream. The oranges are golden worlds in a dark dream.” ― Virginia Adair, Ants on the Melon: a Collection of Poems April 3, 2022
46035. “Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.” ― Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy April 3, 2022
46034. “Jude was down there. He was down there. And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the dark.” ― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade April 3, 2022
46033. “He and Volnay are two shades of the same color, her deep auburn a complement to his brighter, brasher cinnamon. He has light hazel eyes, squished-up floppy ears, and a large square head atop a body that is built like a little tank. He looks a lot like a miniature orange mastiff. His paws are enormous. Not to mention some other obvious parts of his anatomy. This isn’t going to be some elegant little thirty-pound girl. This is a serious BOY dog. And he’s going to be HUGE. But he does have the advantage of being a puppy, and all puppies are adorable so that you don’t kill them. He’s curled up in Benji’s arms, licking his ear, and I can’t help it, he is pretty goddamned cute. I’m in real trouble.” ― Stacey Ballis, Out to Lunch April 3, 2022
46030. “Danielle wore a simple bias-cut gown of the palest blush silk- one of her own designs- with white roses and jasmine braided into her thick auburn hair swept up from the nape of her neck, onto which she’d applied a new perfume she’d blended with a corresponding harmony just for the wedding. She carried the flowers of Bellerose: mimosa, rose, jasmine, violet, and orange blossom, twined into a voluptuous bouquet that spilled from her hand. Jon stood before her, his velvety brown eyes sparkling with flecks of gold. She drank in the delicious, virile smell of him, loving how the scent of his skin melded with the perfume she had blended for him for this day- blood orange and orange blossom, patchouli and sandalwood, cinnamon and clove. She had devised a salty note, too, and added the sea’s airy freshness.” ― Jan Moran, Scent of Triumph April 3, 2022
46029. “I hate the idea that animals or trees or anything might get hurt. I had dreams about it for months afterwards.” ― Michael Sandison April 3, 2022
46028. “When an orange tastes like an onion, the knife takes the blame. But it is the one who handed us the knife that should be questioned.” ― Paul Bamikole April 3, 2022
46027. “Os querubes cantan ao redor do trono de luz e tocan guitarras eléctricas Fender Jazzmaster, a través de amplificadores Orange, con moitos pedais EarthQuaker Devices.” ― Alexandre Alphonse, O Ceo de Santiago April 3, 2022
46026. “I am captivated by the beautiful colors of Fall, Show me,show me, Show me All! Orange, yellow, purple, reddish-brown, And the rustling of the leaves as they fall to the ground.” ― Charmaine J. Forde April 3, 2022
46025. “Jenny’s admonition had the desired effect. Ned drew a deep breath and thrust his arm gingerly into the bag, his mouth puckered in distaste. The expression on his face flickered from queasy horror to confusion. From there, it flew headlong into outright bafflement. Shaking his head, he pulled his fist from the bag and turned his hand palm up. For a long moment, the two men stared at the offending lump. It was brightly colored. It was round. It was— “An orange?” Lord Blakely rubbed his forehead. “Not quite what I expected.” He scribbled another notation. “We live in enlightened times,” Jenny murmured.” ― Courtney Milan, Proof by Seduction April 3, 2022
46024. “The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 April 3, 2022
46023. “I felt myself falling deeper into the world that was Jase Ballenger. “Never. Not a thousand tomorrow’s could I ever be sorry. Trouble with you makes me glad for it. I love you with every breath I will ever breathe. I love you Jase.” “More than an orange?” he asked between kisses. “Let’s not get carried away, Patrei.” ― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves April 3, 2022
46022. “I hope that in the future… we’re as close as we are now… always.” ― Ichigo Takano, Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 April 3, 2022
46021. “The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Out of the corners of my eyes I saw Cico hold his hand to his breast as the golden carp glided by. Then with a switch of his powerful tail the golden carp disappeared into the shadowy water under the thicket.” ― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima April 3, 2022
46020. “Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom….” ― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels April 3, 2022
46019. “Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.” ― Joris-Karl Huysmans April 3, 2022
46018. “FALLING IN LOVE WITH OCTOBER Leaves descending to the ground, Orange, magenta, green & brown The cool crisp breezes in the air, Autumn season must be here” ― Charmaine J Forde April 3, 2022
46017. “I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child’s paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge April 3, 2022
46016. “You are actually the worst person I have ever met,” Chubs said. “And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.” ― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade April 3, 2022
46015. “In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.” ― Jim Davis, In Dog Years I’d be Dead: Garfield at 25 April 3, 2022
46014. “- It’s a bit late to say something now… I’ll just live with it! – If all you do is «live with it»… then that’s not much of a life.” (p.50)” ― Ichigo Takano, Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 April 3, 2022
46013. “Maybe it’s impossible to live life without any regrets. Even when you know the future… you’ll still mess up.” (p.163)” ― Ichigo Takano, Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 April 3, 2022
46011. “«Regrets»… I regret how timid and meek I was back then… always telling myself that I couldn’t do anything, never even daring to try. That’s definitely something I regret. ” (p.330)” ― Ichigo Takano, Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 April 3, 2022
46010. “Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?’ And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: ‘Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?” ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange April 3, 2022
46009. “I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.” ― Wendy Delsol, Stork April 3, 2022
46008. “Orange? Like Effie’s hair?” I say. “A bit more muted,” he says. “More like sunset.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire April 3, 2022
46007. “I feel a little dizzy,” said Orion. “But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word orange.” “Oxygen deprivation,” said Foaly. “Or maybe it’s just him.” ― Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex April 3, 2022
46006. “Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana April 3, 2022
45807. “Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it’s good and it has passion.” ― Kurt Cobain March 20, 2022
45806. “I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you” ― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi March 20, 2022
45805. “Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.” ― Jamie Weise March 20, 2022
45804. “Cat, I’ll let you in on a little secret. We don’t all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn’t make the work part of it any easier…It just makes you less likely to quit.” ― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club March 20, 2022
45803. “You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.” ― Jamie Weise March 20, 2022
45802. “Why?” I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against his chest. “Why, why why!”. Because I was afraid!” He got hold of my wrists and threw me backward so I fell across the bed. He stood over me, fists clenched, breathing hard. I am a coward, damn you! I couldna tell ye, for fear ye would leave me, and unmanly thing that I am, I thought I couldna bear that!” ~~~~~~~~~ You should have told me!” And if I had?, You’d have turned on your heel and gone without a word. And having seen ye again–I tell ye, I would ha’ done far worse than lie to keep you!” Voyager” ― Diana Gabaldon March 20, 2022
45801. “While we revel in the passion of the ‘moment’ braving the whirlpool of time, a flow of vibrations may surprise us and reveal unsuspected power in our inner self, giving us muscle and confidence. (” Swim or sink”)” ― Erik Pevernagie March 20, 2022
45800. “This good fellowship – camaraderie – usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death – that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.” ― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd March 20, 2022
45799. “Passion creates, addiction consumes.” ― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction March 20, 2022
45798. “We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or even the place we will live ~ only to age and realise none of it is what you expected & reality is a little disheartening, when you’ve reached that realisation; you have learnt the gift of all, any new beginning can start now and if you want anything bad enough you’ll find the courage to pursue it with all you have. The past doesn’t have to be the future, stop making it so.” ― Nikki Rowe March 20, 2022
45797. “After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?” ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose March 20, 2022
45796. “Gauguin was a stockbroker in Paris, married, had five kids. One day he came home from work and told his wife he was leaving, that he was through supporting the family, that he had had enough. Just like that he fucking took off. He said he had always felt that he was a painter, so he moved to a rat-infested shithole and started painting. His wife begged him to come back, his bosses told him he was insane, he didn’t care, he was following his heart. He left Paris, moved to Rouen, went from Rouen to Arles, from Arles to Tahiti. He was searching for peace, contentment, trying to fill that fucking hole he felt inside, and he believed he could fill it. He died in Tahiti, blind and crazy from syphilis, but he did it. He filled his fucking hole, made beautiful work, made beautiful, beautiful work… It takes a brave man to walk away, to care so much that he doesn’t care about anything else, to be willing to obey what he feels inside, to be willing to suffer the consequences of living for himself. Every time I stand before his work it makes me cry, and I cry because I’m proud of him, and happy for him, and because I admire him.” ― James Frey, My Friend Leonard March 20, 2022
45795. “How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don’t let people tell you it cant be done 6 make no excuses” ― Germany Kent March 20, 2022
45794. “Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God’s word, and trust the process.” ― Germany Kent March 20, 2022
45793. “Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.” ― Shannon L. Alder March 20, 2022
45792. “At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” ― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November March 20, 2022
45791. “She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.” ― Nicole Lyons March 20, 2022
45790. “Explore me,’ you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body March 20, 2022
45789. “She arches her body like a cat on a stretch. She nuzzles her cunt into my face like a filly at the gate. She smells of the sea. She smells of rockpools when I was a child. She keeps a starfish in there. I crouch down to taste the salt, to run my fingers around the rim. She opens and shuts like a sea anemone. She’s refilled each day with fresh tides of longing.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body March 20, 2022
45788. “Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment March 20, 2022
45787. “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter March 20, 2022
45786. “You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood…” ― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs March 20, 2022
45785. “When scorching passion only leaves ashes of unfulfilled dreams, hope may entice the sprinkling magic of our imagination into livening up the footlights on a new stage of life. (“Taken for a ride”)” ― Erik Pevernagie March 20, 2022
45784. “When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of desire ” ( “Crépuscule du désir “ )” ― Erik Pevernagie March 20, 2022
45783. “You are my fantasy on a cold dark night, my muse during the light of day and the one wish my soul would make” ― Grace Willows March 20, 2022
45782. “I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.” ― Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood March 20, 2022
45781. “Do not turn me into restless waters if you cannot promise to be my stream.” ― Sanober Khan March 20, 2022
45780. “Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.” ― Tim Burton March 20, 2022
45779. “Don’t expect me to be sane anymore. Don’t let’s be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes—you can’t dispute it. I came away with pieces of you sticking to me; I am walking about, swimming, in an ocean of blood, your Andalusian blood, distilled and poisonous… I can’t see how I can go on living away from you—these intermissions are death. How did it seem to you when Hugo came back? Was I still there? I can’t picture you moving about with him as you did with me. Legs closed. Frailty. Sweet, treacherous acquiescence. Bird docility. You became a woman with me. I was almost terrified by it. You are not just thirty years old—you are a thousand years old. Here I am back and still smouldering with passion, like wine smoking. Not a passion any longer for flesh, but a complete hunger for you, a devouring hunger.” ― Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953 March 20, 2022
45778. “When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.” ― Robert Rodriguez, Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player March 20, 2022
45777. “Wild Nights—Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile—the winds— To a heart in port— Done with the compass— Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden— Ah, the sea! Might I but moor— Tonight— In thee!” ― Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems March 20, 2022
45776. “Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective – life.” ― Ogwo David Emenike March 20, 2022
45774. “You’ve no idea the restraint I’ve created. A word, which in a past life, never held special meaning for me, flows now through the blood of my veins as if to remind me it was always there. Like you, always there. You said I was not strong. So I created strength to fight against these natural feelings which keep me tied to you. I drew a line in the sand so I would not step towards your door again. I have boundaries, strength and pride. What I do not have is you. And that is the only part I wanted. You’ve no idea the restraint I’ve created. You’ve no idea the bold wall I’ve built to keep me out of your compromising arms.” ― Jamie Weise March 20, 2022
45773. “The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.” ― Oscar Wilde March 20, 2022
45772. “I do know that I don’t want to wake him. We were up very late last night.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me March 20, 2022
45771. “Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.” ― Stendhal, The Red and the Black March 20, 2022
45770. “I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’ I’ve been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember–horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn’t be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I’ve enjoyed so much the writing of them.” ― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion March 20, 2022
45769. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson March 20, 2022
45768. “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” ― E.M. Forster, Howards End March 20, 2022
45767. “Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!” ― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga March 20, 2022
45766. “It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch March 20, 2022
45765. “He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him. “My every instinct is telling me to have my way with you.” He was dead serious and my cheeks heated. Fire shone in his eyes and I broke eye contact, burying my face into his cotton-covered chest. “But not nearly as difficult as going all this time without you,” he said.” ― Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril March 20, 2022
45764. “It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.” ― Joss Whedon March 20, 2022
45763. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.” ― Simon Sinek March 20, 2022
45762. “Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.” ― Miguel de Unamuno March 20, 2022
45761. “Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.” ― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading March 20, 2022
45760. “Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet March 20, 2022
45759. “My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.” ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles March 20, 2022
45758. “The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.” ― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays March 20, 2022
45757. “The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely.” ― Alexandra Elle March 20, 2022