#highlight

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#winning

I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#appreciation

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#irony

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. ↗

— Anne Rice

#loneliness

literary comfort-food down ↗

— Stephen King

#food

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person. ↗

— R.A. Torrey

#holy-spirit

God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#life

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#backyard #been #day #despair #done