#age

Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them. ↗

— Melinda Chapman

#humor #language #politics #funny

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#dialect #language #funny

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing ↗

— E.B. White

#age

What was with this family, that all the sons were so freaking handsome it hurt to look at them ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#meghan-chase #sage #family

I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational #tragedy #young-adult #family

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#contaminate #contract #disrespect #heart #i

Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude. ↗

— J.M. Reep

#family #shyness #teenager #family

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#marriage #family

Saffy could tell by the feel of the darkness that Caddy was awake. She said, "Caddy, how far back can you remember?" "Oh," said Caddy, "ages. I can remember when I could only lie flat. On my back. I can remember how pleased I was when I learned to roll over. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#night #sisters #age

To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself. ↗

— Amy Denise

#hardship #love #military #romance #tragedy