#snap

Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds. "And are you tempted to join him?" "No," said Snape, his black eyes on Fleur's and Roger's retreating figures. "I am not such a coward." "No," agreed Dumbledore. You are a braver man by far than Igot Karkaroff. You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon..." He walked away, leaving Snape looking stricken. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. ↗

— Marc Maron

#condition #east #get #israel #jerusalem

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#catching #especially #feeling #happen #happened

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#believe #climate #cool #during #ice

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#dad #day #easiest #example #fuse

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#come #few #good #hard #lead

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time. ↗

— Norah Jones

#just #record #snapshot #time #where

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters. ↗

— Russell B. Long

#earl #i #left #really #retire

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#arguments #snappiness #anger

I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#severus-snape #beauty