#unravel

You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured. "Such unfortunate language." Warner shakes his head. "Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#unravel-me #intelligence

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#revelation #unraveling #art

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#unravel-me #science

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. ↗

— Robert Caro

#i #me #mystery #sort #unravel

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#created #mystery #something #try #unravel

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts. ↗

— David Walliams

#dark #fear #i #my own #myself

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#juliette-ferrars #unravel-me #rain

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#differently #draw #handwriting #poets #their