#meets

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to. ↗

— Ali Smith

#girl #meets #change

To go home, you usually will use that door over there." I looked where Trom gestured and saw empty space. "What door?" I asked. "Oh, sorry. Until you go through your closet door for the first time there won't be a door there." "So then what do I use now?" I asked. "You use that door." I looked and this time what he showed me was a door-only it looked like a pet door. "Is that an oversized pet door?" I asked. ↗

— Jennifer Priester

#magic #mortal-meets-magic #mortal-realm-witch #pets #witch

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk about books and issues and kiss in the rain. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#movies

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God. ↗

— David Levithan

#elections

There is less in this than meets the eye. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#less #meets #than

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#i #land #meets #never #none

In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#africa #called #camp #chairs #desert

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#amen #corner #course #eye #golf

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#ever #hands #meets #minutes #put