#gr

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving. ↗

— Alexandra Fuller

#grief #grieving #africa

When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?). ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #question #tyson #battle

[on the success of Fifty Shades of Grey] "Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humour #interview #j-k-rowling #creativity

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. ↗

— Banksy

#paraphrased #painting

I’m sexually attracted to statues made out of decomposing food. Is it normal to be hungry during intercourse? 
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— Jarod Kintz

#decomposing #food #funny #humor #hunger

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #misunderstood #philosophical

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#sin #south #war #regret

Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you." No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon? Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-" "Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #valentine-morgenstern #regret

It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it. Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time. ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#regret

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#scars #wounds #regret