#age

It’s who I am. I can’t just pretend to be some normal kid. That won’t work either. They’ll never leave me alone. But here’s what I know: a block is a strike, and the more an adversary thinks he has succeeded, the more devastating the strike will be. ↗

— Jacques Antoine

#high-school #martial-arts #wuxia #art

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#average #average person #dog #nicer #person

Wrath dragged Beth into his arms and hugged her hard, talking in that other language again. When he pulled back, he ended the monologue with something like leelan. Beth: "Is that vampire talk for bitch? ↗

— J.R. Ward

#dark-lover-p- #language

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#english language #government #help #here #i

Stop flaunting your impeccable language skills, Vincent, help the girl to her feet and let her take her leave ↗

— Amy Plum

#revenants #language

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#portia-de-rossi #unbearable-lightness #english

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#goes #head #heart #him #his

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#language

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#words #language

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#senses #language