#ashes

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes. ↗

— King Hussein I

#destruction #emerge #human #human life #life

Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clary-fray #jace-wayland #simon #city

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#eagle #edward #first-rate #got #guy

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. ↗