#may

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#april #changes #december #maids #may

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #perspective #racism #courage

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds. ↗

— Red Skelton

#forget #heartache #helps #laughing #matter

He's having a vision," I said. "That's what happens." (Maya) "Attractive, I know," Corey said between gritted teeth. "And now I get new witnesses to my humiliation. Wonderful." "We're used to it," Chloe said. "Derek used to do that when he Changed. Only worse." "Thank you for sharing," Derek muttered. She grinned. "You're welcome. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#corey #derek #maya-delaney #visions #change

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand? ↗

— Emma Willard

#aware #beginning #buds #daughters #defective

Her eyes narrowing, she turned her attention back to where Stephanie stood with Ben, feeling her own pain turn to intense fury. “Dominic knew her so damn well because he was usually thinking the same thing. She was his female version – two halves fitting perfectly together,” Gena spat out, anger inflected in her voice. “Like him, she’s reckless and like him, once she gets something into her head nothing or no one will change her mind.” Her fury revealed itself in her eyes, as she spat out, “And, like him, she’s going to get herself killed.” - Gena Evans, Nowhere to Run ↗

— Nina D'Angelo

#crime #death #love #mayhem #murder-mystery

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#carry #could #football #got #i

..bright eyes and subtle variations of blue... ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #rainbow #song-lyrics #veins #dreams

I just designed the world’s most inefficient no. It’s modeled after a downward sloping maybe.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #indecision #inefficient #maybe #no

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#growing-up #little-women #louisa-may-alcott #dreams