#phoenix

The punishment of vertical rending was given to those who had destroyed marriages to satisfy their own lust. ↗

— Cindy Pon

#fury-of-the-phoenix #infidelity #marriage

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price. ↗

— Roy Romer

#colleges #deliver #found #i #intriguing

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#grief #phoenix-lament #song #terrible #beauty

Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of my father's house. Take me to your vineyard. Let me meet your mother. Perfume me with basil water. Arrange me on silver dishes, comb me, imprison me in your name, let love kill me. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry #the-death-of-the-phoenix #death

Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #love #oreder-of-the-phoenix #sirius-black #love

I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#carlo #i #laps #lead #maybe