#kin

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#alex

Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#knitting #sarcasm #smoking #sarcasm

Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#zombies #zombies

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#introverts #talking #introvert

All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#kindlehighlight

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want ↗

— Randy Pausch

#kindlehighlight

He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#kindlehighlight

How about you, Mockingjay? You feel totally safe?” “Oh, yeah. Right up until I got shot,” I say. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#kindlehighlight

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#kindlehighlight

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#kindlehighlight