#fallen

If being in love made a person mad, then being away from the one you loved made you a lunatic. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#love

Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#because #bit #contract #fallen #get

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#alone #america #before #britain #churchill

Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec made an ugly sound in the back of his throat. “Did you sleep with him, too?” Magnus’s cat eyes widened. “Alexander! ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #magnus-bane #family

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat’s. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec’s, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #tessa-gray #will-herondale

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#attack #bus #cafe #fallen #got

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#fallen #friends #grace #i #some

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#deep #doing #fall #fallen #gravity

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#back up #difficult #down #everybody #fallen

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#cannot #fallen #lightning #like #strike