#utter

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#seduction #seduction

Do you know, it's really hard to be a parent. I blame it on Santa Claus. You spend so long making sure your kid doesn't know he's fake that you can't tell when you're supposed to stop." "Mom, I found you and Calla wrapping my presents when I was, like, six." "It was a metaphor, Blue." "A metaphor's supposed to clarify by providing an example. That didn't clarify." "Do you know what I mean or not?" "What you mean is that you're sorry you didn't tell me about Butternut." Maura glowered at the door as if Calla stood behind it. "I wish you wouldn't call him that." "If you'd been the one to tell me about him, then I wouldn't be using what Calla told me." "Fair enough. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butternut #lol #maura #raven-boys #santa-claus

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#being #being in love #butterflies #effect #feeling

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men. ↗

— John Amery

#clique #decide #dying #enough #interest

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. ↗

— Aristotle

#men #utter #young #young men

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#awful #between #cold #disappears #friendship

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#every #i #must #question #sentence

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#butter #calories #cheese #coffee #cream

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#best #butter #change #cream #days

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. ↗

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

#civil #civil war #conquered #feature #helplessness