#shatter

Love will set her free. ↗

— Tehereh Mafi

#love

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. ↗

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#comedy #hamburgers #shattered-mirror #comedy

Do you know what I did to the last guy that called me Tinkerbelle?" "Slept with him?" Darryl was silent for a second. "After that. ↗

— Dani Alexander

#gay-romance #m-m-romance #shattered-glass #gay

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#shattered-dreams #dreams

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image. ↗

— Michael York

#been #bring #british #cannot #dinner

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#happiness #only #past #present #shattered

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#capitalism #donkey #foundations #i #like

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#intelligent #make #masses #materials #might

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality