#bones

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline. ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#bones-butter #change

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking. ↗

— Stephen King

#stephen-king #dreams

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past. ↗

— John Rucyahana

#faith #forgiveness #genocide #hope #rwanda

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. ↗

— William Harvey

#science #men

Whatever would give you the idea that I'm her damn brother? ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat #funny #timmy #funny

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #magic #funny

...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat #funny #funny

See the world anew and write down the bones of it. ↗

— A.D. Sams

#ad-sams #alisha-sams #bones #capturing #creative-thinking-the-world

Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#night-huntress #vlad #jealousy

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#life