#locke

Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#consent #funny #humor #humour #lighting

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#love #moonlight #romance #unlocked #love

Oh, now don't act like the idea is so terrible. When you come down to it, what could be more romantic than a few hours of scrambling around in a cold, dripping hole known for occasionally flooding and drowning people? ↗

— Joe Hill

#romantic

We could argue in front of our lockers all dramatically," I said. "That's something I saw a lot at human high schools." He squeezed me in a quick hug. "Yes! Now that sounds like a good time. And then I could come to your house in the middle of the night and play music really loudly under your window until you took me back." I chuckled. "You watch too many movies. Ooh, we could be lab partners!" "Isn't that kind of what we were in Defense?" "Yeah, but in normal high school, there would be more science, less kicking each other in the face." "Nice. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#demonglass #lab-partners #lockers #normal-high-school #rachel-hawkins

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker. ↗

— GG Allin

#fit #foot #i #locker #own

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#hearts #life #locked #long #love

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#city #inside #rear #their #them

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#clocked #daily #days #each #expected

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. ↗

— Joey Bishop

#cash register #find #gas #gas station #go

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#blood #constructed #diluted #extract #flows