#creatures

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#bit #could #creatures #did #envy

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#earth #giant #inhabit #little #makes

Darkness can't drive out darkness only light can do that, Hate can't drive out hate only love can do that. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

This isn't going to be some freaky pagan sex thing, is it? ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#found #girl #hungry #ireland #lost

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful-creatures #beautiful-darkness #closeness #distance #far

The days without you bleed together until time is nothing more than another obstacle we must overcome. ↗

— Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl

#beauty

She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#loneliness #silence #solitary #stars #beauty

Mamma was just pulling your tail to see if it squeaked. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#ever #friends #i #item #lived