#ashes

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#course #dreams #high #horse #i

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#counts #neck #throat #washes #where

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. ↗

— Dorothy Gilman

#ashes #hell #hell is #hot #man

We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#clashes #evolution #jewry #know #necessary

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#eyes #figures #heaven #herbs #lashes

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#end #fight #fire #people #up

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#clashes #flower #god #i #judge

It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?" "Yes," Jace said kindly. "It'll do you good-- try to think of it as endurance training. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #city-of-bones #city-of-glass #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments

I guess it's true what they say. There are no straight men in the trenches." ~Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #funny #humor #jace-wayland #misquoted

Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority I just don't know what I'll do with you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #isabelle #funny