#kindle

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#love

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly. ↗

— Jay Bell

#beauty

I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me. And then dumped me. I played the passive role. Waiting for Hunter and then settling for Joey. Waiting to feel more for Nate. Then waiting to feel less. Waiting for Alec to go away and leave me in peace. And now Dex. My number four. And I am still waiting. For all of this to blow over. For his September wedding. For someone who gives me that tingly feeling as I watch him sleeping in... ↗

— Emily Giffin

#men

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#love

Kids: they dance before they learn “there is anything that isn’t music. ” —William Stafford ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#music

Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?” “Horizontal, of course.” “Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck a chord though. So, I rummaged around in the old Rory memory bank, and Emily is what rings a bell. Didn’t we go to school with an Emily? Tenth or eleventh grade, if I recall it correctly. ↗

— Ed Lynskey

#crime-fiction #mystery #romance #suspense #thriller

he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#nature

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#unexpected

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

— George R.R. Martin

#winning