#air

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#josh-lanyon #life

Grumble weakens the spirit. Despair is counterproductive. Both are true toxicants in life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#grumble #poison #life

You can regret the end of her life forever. Or you can remember her and honor the life she lived. ↗

— Jessica Scott

#life

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#friend #gold #good #good pair #good sense

(…) met the owner of this cozy book-and-candle Apt. G, a tall, leggy, striking girl named Bea or maybe just the letter B or maybe the insect Bee, not sure, her long blond hair pulled in a ponytail, her no-doubt banging body effortlessly buried beneath a pile of tights and sweaters and scarves – she is a walking coat rack – and as we shook hands, Bea fixed me with the most alarming blue-eyed stare of my life, the kind of stare in which you think some potent subliminal message is being passed along (Run away with me or maybe just Run away), (…) ↗

— Jess Walter

#drugs #humor #life

The months roll by like wheels on a wheelchair. Pretty soon it’ll be July. Feels like just last month it was May.
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— Jarod Kintz

#life #may #months #time #wheelchair

I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#freedom #paraglider #sun #freedom

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#learned #most

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#life #trust #unfair #unfairness #unfairness-of-life

You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!" "Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head." De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#america #engineer #fire #london #pirates