#ren

While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries. ↗

— Jim Beaver

#humor #love #parenting #humor

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college, ↗

— Woody Allen

#parents #humor

With the world securely in order, Dain was able to devote the leisurely bath time to editing his mental dictionary. He removed his wife from the general category labeled "Females" and gave her a section of her own. He made a note that she didn't find him revolting, and proposed several explanations: (a) bad eyesight and faulty hearing, (b)a defect in a portion of her otherwise sound intellect, (c) an inherited Trent eccentricity, or (d) an act of God. Since the Almighty had not done him a single act of kindness in at least twenty-five years, Dain thought it was about bloody time, but he thanked his Heavenly Father all the same, and promised to be as good as he was capable of being. ↗

— Loretta Chase

#jessica-trent #romance #humor

I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#humor #self-awareness #yoga #humor

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#different #each #enjoy #great #groups

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#humor #mind #puns #self-awareness #speaking

The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#announcing #company #depth #executive #future

Ren frowned as he surveyed the madness they were knee-deep in. “Why are you under such heavy fire?” Nick gave him a droll stare. “Oh, I don’t know. But we’re really enjoying it. Fear has such a wonderfully romantic scent to it that they ought to turn it into cologne and deodorant. Eau de Ew. Let’s all just take a minute, and bask in it. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#nick-gautier #ren-waya #time-untime #humor

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. There is more imagination in the world than one might think. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#love #parenting #imagination

Surrender to the flow. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#surrender