#natura

Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren’t sure which side you’re on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn’t make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #vampire #supernatural

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#magic #supernatural

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the incredible has tended to blur; I am aware that the whole world is slightly incredible ↗

— Colin Wilson

#supernatural #supernatural

There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad where there are cats, and conversely, where there are several cats, a house is bound to be wonderfully charming. ↗

— Hans Holzer

#supernatural #supernatural

Ivy!' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#kisten #rachel-morgan #romance #supernatural #vampire

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bigger #encounter #him #life #make

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#around #basic #breath #building #good

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?' ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#everyone #going #guy #happens #kind

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#bird #deny #fish #gift #given

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life. ↗

— Shania Twain

#always #best #desperate #dictate #feel