#ow

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ↗

— Noel Coward

#discouraging #few #honesty #how #many

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#fly #higher #lower #you

The things you used to own, now they own you. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#things #fighting

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. ↗

— Dan Brown

#humans #tragedy

By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast! ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#howl #howl-s-moving-castle #sophie #tragedy

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #shadowhunters #idea

All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#flowers

A weed is but an unloved flower. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#unloved #weed

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. ↗

— Robert Frost

#rain #flowers

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#flowers