#risa

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#inspirational #writing #age

You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it. ↗

— Kindle Korner

#kindle-korner #marisa-adams #marisa-adams-author #dreams

Olofi made Oya . . . and then he realized he'd done and quickly made Oshun. ↗

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

#orisha #religion #yoruba #religion

The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a group unique to the first century. Pharisaism is a poisonous weed that grows in every garden of orthodox religion. Pharisaism is every bit the threat to the orthodox today that it was then. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#error #heresy #pharisaism #pharisees #religion

Reírse de ellos, ridiculizarlos, hacerlos sentir desamparados; sólo así podría cambiar algo. Una labor de Sísifo, sí, pero vale la pena emprenderla y, además, reduce la monotonía de la vida. Si resulta imposible humanizar esos rostros de hormigón armado que los políticos aspiran a adquirir desde su primer pinche puestecito, al menos se podría logra hacer visibles algunas craqueladuras. Los jóvenes están hasta la madre de tanta tontería, ya ni siquiera se asoman al Museo de Antropología para no ver reproducidos en la Coatlicue los hieráticos gestos de sus dirigentes. Es necesario que todo el mundo aprenda a reírse de esos monigotes ridículos y siniestros que dirigen a la nación como si por su boca se expresara la historia, no la viva, eso nunca, sino la que ellos han embalsamado. Cualquier novedad los amedrenta. ↗

— Sergio Pitol

#historia #méxico #política #risa #art

[...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#risa #unwind #business

She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there was something that sparked with warmth, that kept those eyes from being cold. ↗

— Lora Leigh

#lora-leigh #love-at-first-sight #lovers #micah #risa

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. ↗

— James Stockdale

#decide #find #first #first thing #get

They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#kiss #risa #separation

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#life