Will

Source: Favim

The individual act of will is the strongest, most transcendent part of us. To look upon something with our deepest overriding passions, whether it be rage, grief, hope or love, and yet recognise a greater need or goal, and to say, "I will do this" or "I will not do that", no matter what the personal cost, is a triumph of the spirit. The exercise of the will is the art of humans in the state of being.

~ Amanda Carpenter (Thea Harrison)

Will

Source: Favim

The individual act of will is the strongest, most transcendent part of us. To look upon something with our deepest overriding passions, whether it be rage, grief, hope or love, and yet recognise a greater need or goal, and to say, "I will do this" or "I will not do that", no matter what the personal cost, is a triumph of the spirit. The exercise of the will is the art of humans in the state of being.

~ Amanda Carpenter (Thea Harrison)

Promise

Source: Favim

I made a promise to you before you came into my life....
I will never betray you. I will never endanger your life with my carelessness or impetuosity. I will fight for and with you. I will always have your back whenever you might need me. I will not leave you, and I will not lie to you, and if you will be patient and forgiving, I will learn how to forgive too. Because you’ve become the most important thing in the world to me. I’ll give everything I have to you, along with everything I can be, if only you will do the same.... Because somehow it’s going to be okay. Because I could never endanger my mate by throwing my own life away....
You need to know that you can trust me. I heard what you said. I heard everything you said, and while I’m still struggling with all of it, I want you to know that somehow it’s going to be okay....
I might not know the details of how I’m going to survive, but I know that I will, because I could never
endanger someone who was even a possible mate by throwing my own life away.

~ Thea Harrison

Promise

Source: Favim

I made a promise to you before you came into my life....
I will never betray you. I will never endanger your life with my carelessness or impetuosity. I will fight for and with you. I will always have your back whenever you might need me. I will not leave you, and I will not lie to you, and if you will be patient and forgiving, I will learn how to forgive too. Because you’ve become the most important thing in the world to me. I’ll give everything I have to you, along with everything I can be, if only you will do the same.... Because somehow it’s going to be okay. Because I could never endanger my mate by throwing my own life away....
You need to know that you can trust me. I heard what you said. I heard everything you said, and while I’m still struggling with all of it, I want you to know that somehow it’s going to be okay....
I might not know the details of how I’m going to survive, but I know that I will, because I could never
endanger someone who was even a possible mate by throwing my own life away.

~ Thea Harrison

Falling in love

Source: PiCSHiP/Favim

Listen to me. I did not say I was falling in love with you, if only you would hide some part of yourself or change some aspect to try to please me. I said I was falling in love with you—all of you. I don’t want you to curb yourself, deny yourself, cover up your face or head or any part of your body. I don’t want you to lose or gain weight, or watch what you say, or deny how you feel, or try to be anything but who you are, because who you are is the most beautiful person in the world to me.

~ Thea Harrison

Falling in love

Source: PiCSHiP/Favim

Listen to me. I did not say I was falling in love with you, if only you would hide some part of yourself or change some aspect to try to please me. I said I was falling in love with you—all of you. I don’t want you to curb yourself, deny yourself, cover up your face or head or any part of your body. I don’t want you to lose or gain weight, or watch what you say, or deny how you feel, or try to be anything but who you are, because who you are is the most beautiful person in the world to me.

~ Thea Harrison

Death

Pic credit: Frank Thompson @ All Things Wildly Considered

She was not afraid of death. Death was a thief that always wore a mask. Accident, disease, stillbirths, old age, natural causes, war, murder. It existed in the shivering silence between tolls of a bell. It stole everything away while it left its mark, a dark knowledge that lingered at the back of smiling eyes, a hesitation between thought and action in times of danger, a heaviness that tunneled wormholes into happy memories.
She and death had danced together for a long time now. Sometimes they were partners. Sometimes they were opponents. Sometimes she might cheat him, but hell, that old thief was still bound to win some day.

~ Thea Harrison

Death

Pic credit: Frank Thompson @ All Things Wildly Considered

She was not afraid of death. Death was a thief that always wore a mask. Accident, disease, stillbirths, old age, natural causes, war, murder. It existed in the shivering silence between tolls of a bell. It stole everything away while it left its mark, a dark knowledge that lingered at the back of smiling eyes, a hesitation between thought and action in times of danger, a heaviness that tunneled wormholes into happy memories.
She and death had danced together for a long time now. Sometimes they were partners. Sometimes they were opponents. Sometimes she might cheat him, but hell, that old thief was still bound to win some day.

~ Thea Harrison