#linger

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#linger #loss #love #pain #separation

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#comes #comparatively #difficult #discipline #experience

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie? ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#god #invent #lingerie #naked #sexy

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#granting #i #i think #interviews #making

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.' ↗

— John Krasinski

#better #book #classics #ernest #ernest hemingway

I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes. ↗

— Karen McDougal

#feel #five #i #i love #let us

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk. ↗

— Bill Nye

#great #great deal #lap #lingered #long

Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on. ↗

— Stephen King

#death

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. ↗

— Stephen King

#chambers #dark-tower #deschain #gunslinger #hunger

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ↗