#whit

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #whit




I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.


Laura Anderson Kurk


#dating #fear #henry-whitmire #love #meg-kavanagh

Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.


Laura Anderson Kurk


#glass-girl #grief #henry-whitmire #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh

It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died.


Markus Zusak


#death #white #world #death

The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks for celebrations, and the white man came along and said, Holy shit, we can use this to kill people. What better way to celebrate than that?



Jarod Kintz


#celebration #chaos #chinese #death #destroy

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.


Laura Ingalls Wilder


#away #could #edge #ended #enormous

Sam counts the money carefully. I watch him in the mirror. “You know what I wish?” he asks when he’s done. “What?” “That someone would convert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.” That startles a laugh out of me. “That would be pretty awesome.” A slow, shy smile spreads across his mouth. “And we could take bets on them. And be filthy rich.” I lean my head against the frame of the stall, looking at the tile wall and the pattern of yellowed cracks there, and grin. “I take back anything I might have implied to the contrary. Sam, you are a genius.


Holly Black


#death

Today I seen a dove collide into the sunset, on the way to heaven and a ruined raven chewing on death, over the pavement.


Anthony Liccione


#curse #death #dove #hope #raven

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.


Herman Melville


#violence #war #white-people #death

A diet of rations etched his figure, and the sea air and sun peeled back a layer of his essence...It's as if he's passed through some cloud of aether, and he's come back to us with the outer reaches of the universe still clinging to him.


Adam McOmber


#the-white-forest #diet

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.


August Wilson


#blacks #custodians #experience #had #operate