#riddle

I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper. ↗

— L.M. Fields

#humor #life #riddle #truth #life

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#harpist #morgon #patricia-mckillip #riddle-master #love

The twins hobbled forward. "Freaks and dames and boys and things, drinks and bones and shiny rings," said the twin on the left. "Ashes and earth will imprison the frail, blood of love will lift the veil," said the other. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#love

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#time #flowers

Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#math #riddles #math

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#inconsistencies #just #justice #lies #riddled

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#inside #mystery #riddle #russia #wrapped

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#in fact #itself #mess #nations #riddled

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning. ↗

— Tom Waits

#anything #else #find #get #just