#had

I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it. ↗

— Dick Stuart

#great #had #i #such #want

This is all I know, too. Perhaps together we can chart a new course. ↗

— E.L. James

#anastasia #anastasia-steele #e-l-james #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. ↗

— Louise Brown

#child #children #escape #found #had

Hadley grabs the laminated safety instructions from the seat pocket in front of her and frowns at the cartoon men and women who seem weirdly delighted to be bailing out of a series of cartoon planes. Beside her, Oliver stifles a laugh, and she glances up again. “What?” “I’ve just never seen anyone actually read one of those things before,” “Well,” she says, “then you’re very lucky to be sitting next to me.” “Just in general?” She grins. “Well, particularly in case of an emergency.” “Right,” he says. “I feel incredibly safe. When I’m knocked unconscious by my tray table during some sort of emergency landing, I can’t wait to see all five-foot-nothing of you carry me out of here. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#oliver #love

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#marks-left #moments #shadows #men

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#soul #men

Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#shadowcat #x-men #men

Ever, we are not defined by our things. It's not the clothes we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire - it's not where we live - but how we live that defines us. It's our actions that are remembered long after we're gone. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#inspirational #shadowland #art

I could not have done anymore, I had pushed myself to a limit that I had never touched before and that's definitely going to change you - than going out and doing what you do in practice every day. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#before #change #could #day #definitely