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Quotes About Surrender

It isn't that mortals can't be pretty—many of them are—but their beauty doesn't make you feel pummeled by it. I feel a little pummeled by Oak's beauty. If I look at him too long, I want to take a bite out of him.
~ Holly Black
It's you I love.'' he says. ''I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.
~ Holly Black
Jude, nie próbuj zrobi? tego na siÅ'Ä™. Pozwól, ?eby samo przyszÅ'o.
~ Holly Black
For you I am forever undone
~ Holly Black
It's you I love," he says. "I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.
~ Holly Black
I can see why humans succumb to the beautiful nightmare of the Court, why they willingly drown in it.
~ Holly Black
The weight of the sea seemed to pass down on him. He no longer had a sense of up or down. One was always suspended, fighting against the current or giving in to it. There would be no lying on beds of moss, no barbed words easily spoken, no falling down from too much wine, no dancing at all.
~ Holly Black
Búrlate de mí cuanto quieras. Da igual con qué fantaseara en aquel entonces, ahora soy yo el que suplicaría de rodillas para recibir una palabra bonita de tus labios. —Sus ojos negros están cargados de deseo—. Eres mi condena eterna." Cardan a Jude
~ Holly Black
She reminded herself that there was nothing they could do to her. She was already like them. Already dead.
~ Holly Black
It's you I love — I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.
~ Holly Black
Desire hits me like a kick to the stomach. It's like fighting, except what we're fighting for is to crawl inside each other's skin.
~ Holly Black
Marry me,' he says. 'Become the Queen of Elfhame.
~ Holly Black
By you, I am forever undone.
~ Holly Black
Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.
~ Holly Black
You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.
~ Unknown
"Temptations can be got rid of." "How?" "By yielding to them."
~ Honore de Balzac
La resignación es un suicidio cotidiano.
~ Honore de Balzac
His leading is only for those who are already committed to do as He may choose. To such it may be said: "God is able to speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear.
~ Lewis Sperry Chafer
Taking refuge means, "I trust you. Please give me the medicine and I will take it.
~ Unknown
Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate.
~ Liane Moriarty
Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief.
~ Liane Moriarty
Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.
~ Liane Moriarty
There was nothing Joy could do to change the outcome of her children's lives, any more than she could have changed the outcome of their matches, no matter how hard
~ Liane Moriarty
I'm using you to help me not think about my husband,' she clarified. She wanted him to understand. 'Tess. Honey. Do you think I don't I don't know that?' Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.
~ Liane Moriarty