#allow

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#swallowing #words #anger

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#art #being #destiny #friend #go

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#allowed #forget #good #guitar #motivated

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#because #democratic #expressing #first #first time

I’ve learned that sometimes, when you’re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#cynthia-hand #hallowed #life #courage

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor love!' 'But you know Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love.... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#deathly-hallows #epilogue #harry-potter #hogwarts #humor

Sorry," Harry interjected, "but Death spoke to them? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#deathly-hallows #harry-potter #death

He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

It was not, after all, so easy to die. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hallows #harry-potter #death

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#allowances #believable #detailed #fabric #i