#even

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#abused #abused-women #anger #crime #crime-fiction

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#american #any #channel #chicken #comes

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#ago #brought #conceived #continent #created

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#after #amount #anxiety #big #done

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#revenge

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. ↗

— William Burton Pope

#god #grace #prevenient-grace #salvation #equality

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events ↗

— Michel Faber

#life #dating

The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #experience

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

#end-of-series #friendship #greed #robin-wasserman #sad

If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting.”Fire, Kristin Cashore “If she was suggesting she was too wise with the weight of her experience to fall prey to infatuation - well, the disproof was sitting before her in the form of a gray-eyed prince with a thoughtful set to his mouth that she found quite distracting. ↗

— Kristen Cashore

#kristin-cashore #seven-kingdoms #experience