#nap

Con los ojos fijos en Napoleón pensaba en la insignificancia de la grandeza, en la insignificancia de la vida cuyo objeto nadie comprendía, en la insignificancia mayor aún de la muerte cuyo sentido permanecía oculto e impenetrable a los humanos ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #muerte #napoleon #vida #death

I’m tied up, gagged and about to be bludgeoned to death by a lawn ornament. Jeez, that’s depressing. - Raven Smith ↗

— Rita Stradling

#lawn-ornament #death

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to biuld an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway. ↗

— Henry Ford

#think-and-grow-rich #design

Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens ↗

— Jean Harrington

#interior-design #mystery #naples #design

A good book is a good place to go..... to dream! ↗

— Donna Lee Comer

#clean-mystery #kidnapped #thriller #dreams

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education

But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” “For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!” From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#lily-evans #patronus #snape #death

Ah, but it is an interesting thing, that these things can so seldom be proved. If I were to perform some piece of, hrmf, magic for you, here in this room, you would claim a thousand ways it could have been done. Indeed, those ways might be exceedingly unlikely, but you would cling to them rather than accept the, mmn, the chance that magic, the eternal inexplicable, might be the true agent, and if you were strong enough in yourself, unafraid, unthreatened, here in your own chambers, well perhaps there would be no magic worked at all. It is a subjective force, you see, whereas the physical laws of the artificers are objective. A gear-train will turn without faith, but magic may not. And so, when your people demand, mmn, proof, there is none, but when you have forgotten and dismissed it, then magic creeps back into the gaps where you do not look for it. ↗

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

#gjegevey #inapt #magic #proof #the-inexplicable-eternal

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart. ↗

— Fran Elizabeth Grubb

#child-abuse #family #kidnapped #self-help-books #family

Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to have the wind in your face and the sun on your skin, day in and day out. If it's anything at all like this then it must be heaven on earth.  ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#bikers #enjoy-freedom #enjoy-life #free #free-will