#page

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. ↗

— Yann Martel

#age

My footfall rang in a universe that was not theirs. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#jet-age-man #age

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging. ↗

— Adam Levin

#pain #rampage #anger

A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a plot, connecting moments and incidents into a narrative. The narrative structure might be a simple chain of events with a beginning, middle, and end. It might be embellished with diversions, digressions, and picaresque twists, be accompanied by parallel ways (subplots), or deceptively fork into blind alleys like the althernative scenerios explored in a detective novel. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#landscape-architecture #page- #architecture

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#front #get #i #kill #many

Do you think I’m pretty?” I heard myself ask. Something I couldn’t name flashed across his face. “No. I don’t think you’re pretty. I think you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#beauty

The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#beauty

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

Bitches will take your ass down if you try to publish that. Peace out. ↗

— Libba Bray

#humor #pageant #beauty

I didn’t mean to go after him, but no one was doing anything, and I’m probably the only one here who’s actually been in the woods for real.” “Besides—he’s British. What do they know about camping and wilderness survival and all that?”... There too busy drinking tea and playing cricket. He would have been lost without me ↗

— Heather Davis

#business