#thomas

Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#karrin-murphy #thomas-raith #change

And then... And then Thomas Hunter dreamed, and the world would never be the same. ↗

— Ted Dekker

#thomas-hunter #dreams

(COMPARE) - Our birth is but a dream and a forgetting (Wordsworth) - ...so schläft er sehr rasch wieder ein, und schon nach vierundzwanzig Stunden ist es, als sei man niet weg gewesen und als sei die Reise der Traum einer Nacht. (Thomas Mann) - Thetis baptized her mortal son in Styx; A mortal mother would on Lethe fix. (Byron) ↗

— William Wordsworth

#wordsworth #dreams

Worse still, he doesn’t know how to follow the piper anymore because it’s a path Tom has lost faith in. And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father’s eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#faith #piper #thomas #faith

You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that you’ve never ever seen before. Like they’ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people? ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#strangers #thomas #family

Lissianna said, smacking Thomas in the arm. “What were you thinking? They don’t waltz here.” “I was thinking I didn’t want my uncle clasping my butt, and our chests rubbing together as he stepped on my feet while trying to shuffle me around the floor,” Thomas answered dryly. ↗

— Lynsay Sands

#lissianna #lucian #night-club #thomas #humor

THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue! ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#humor #libraries #thomasina #humor

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#law-of-attraction #thomas-moore #imagination

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#durbyfield #hope #life #tess-of-the-d-urbervilles #thomas-hardy

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#memory #odd-apocalypse #odd-thomas #photographs #life