#trick

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#monsters-of-men #patrick-ness #todd-hewitt #viola-eade #men

War makes monsters out of men. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#chaos-walking #patrick-ness #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #men

And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter - not to make him feel like a fool who had fallen for a trick, but rather because he had said, 'you had better luck with matches,' when in fact I had not. It was not the matches that brought him across the street. It was the matches that kept him on the bench. ↗

— Adam Levin

#meeting #trick #tricking #inspirational

You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. ↗

— Strickland Gillian

#literacy #love #mother #quote #reading

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#become #camera #carry #else #front

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#another #dispute #holidays #irish #person

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

#dogs #new #old #teach #tricks