#glass

We all have some screws loose, common sense and intelligence can diminish that ↗

— Doug Brown

#doug-brown #looking-glass-self #intelligence

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo! ↗

— Frank Beddor

#dead #glass #imperial #looking #man

As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#life #precious-life #wine #life

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#forbidden-love #jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #love

...you are enchanted - only a princess can leave glass footprints in the snow... ↗

— John Geddes

#glass-footprint #love #poetry-quote #princess #snow

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days. ↗

— Holly Robinson

#glass-ceiling #women #writing #love

I wish we could go to the movies." I stared at him. "We're in a creepy dungeon. There's a chance I might die in the next few hours. You are going to die in the next few hours. And if you had one wish, it would be to catch a movie? ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#demonglass #impending-doom #movies #rachel-hawkins #sophie

What are those people doing?" Jenna whispered to me. "I don't know," I replied through a frozen grin, "but I'm afraid a musical number might be involved. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#jenna #musical-number #rachel-hawkins #sophie #music

De la nostalgia humana por el amor ha brotado al fin y al cabo toda la parte de la cultura que no se orienta directamente a calmar el hambre o a luchar contra los enemigos. El sentimiento de la belleza no mana de otra fuente. Todo el arte, toda la poesía, toda la música han bebido de ella. El más soso cuadro de historia moderno, las madonas de Rafael, y las obreritas parisinas de Steinlen, el 'Ángel de la Muerte' como el Cantar de los Cantares y el Buch der Lieder, oratorios y valses vieneses, incluso toda moldura de yeso en esta casa horrenda donde vivo, todo dibujo de la alfombra, la forma de aquel jarrón de porcelana y el diseño de mi bufanda, todo lo que pretende gustar y embellecer, tanto si lo logra como sino, viene de allí, aunque sea por caminos largos y tortuosos. ↗

— Hjalmar Söderberg

#art

I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#vision