#poke

I thought I was going to sweat five years before I'd feel like this." "I wanted it as much as you did. I've just got a hell of a poker face" I smiled, pressing my lips against his. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#poker-face #beauty

It’s a dove, an attractive girl, a winning card in poker, take your pick. You’re my Pigeon. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#attractive #dove #pigeon #poker #travis-maddox

I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#courage #knowing-when-the-time-is-right #limit #mouth #spoken-words

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#thus-spoke-zarathustram #willing #beauty

Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end also began with a kiss. ↗

— Dennis Sharpe

#deep-thoughts #end-of-the-world #hauntingly-beautiful #truer-words-were-never-spoken #beauty

Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#business

Once the others were below, Hazel and Leo faced each other awkwardly. They were alone except for Coach Hedge, who was back on the quarterdeck singing the Pokémon theme song. The coach had changed the words to: Gotta Kill ’Em All, and Leo really didn’t want to know why. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#hazel-levesque #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed. ↗

— Jane Kang

#future #life #look #see #spoken-words

Death Makes Angels of us all. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#death

Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što prećutiš. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#regret-spoken-word #death