#sun

The patter of tentative footfalls reached my ears. I flipped on my side to face the door and saw Ansel wander by. I rolled onto my back, rubbing sleep from my eyes. I'd crashed on my bed as soons as I'd gotten back from school, collapsing under the weight of the day. The floorboards squeaked as Ansel passed by my door again. I caught his nervous glance in my direction before he hurried down the hall. 'Ansel, I'm not the sun; stop orbiting and get in here,' I called. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#sun #humor

My love for you would blot out the sun like a cloud made out of yogurt. I hope you brought a spoon. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #blot-out #cloud #funny #humor

Fred coughed, which caused Sam and Ellie to look over at her. “Hey, Ellie. Watch this.” Mentally apologizing to her oldest friend, Fred seized Jonas by the shirt collar and heaved him out of his chair and through the (fortunately open) sliding door. Jonas was densely built (“Deliciously so,” Dr. Barb might have said over the sound of Fred’s retching), but no match for Fred’s hybrid strength, and the air velocity he achieved was really quite something. Fred ignored his wail (“My sundaeeee!”), which became easier to do the fainter it got. ↗

— MaryJanice Davidson

#sundae #throwing-friends-out-doors #tossing #humor

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#great #i #i think #little #me

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire. ↗

— Michael Sims

#rebirth #renewal #sun #imagination

When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#equator #ocean #orgy #sea #sea-monsters

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#belongs #country #developing #era #iraq

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#moon #sun #time #inspirational

She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "Are you an illegal alien? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#crazy #epiphany #illegal #sunshine #talon

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

#travel #life