#ang

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#because #father #get #guy #him

She smiled. Her skin looked whiter than he recalled, and dark spidery veins were beginning to show beneath its surface. Her hair was still the color of spun silver and her eyes were still green as a cat’s. She was still beautiful. Looking at her, he was in London again. He saw the gaslight and smelled the smoke and dirt and horses, the metallic tang of fog, the flowers in Kew Gardens. He saw a boy with black hair and blue eyes like Alec’s, heard violin music like the sound of silver water. He saw a girl with long brown hair and a serious face. In a world where everything went away from him eventually, she was one of the few remaining constants. And then there was Camille. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #jem-carstairs #magnus-bane #tessa-gray #will-herondale

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#being #danger #depressing #life #pessimist

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#ends #incredible #journey #life #never

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#arrangement #never #notes #played #speech

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#art #bring #dealing #different #different way

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#had #helped #i #into #keep

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#am #being #enough #fact #gifted

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#children #commission #dangers #design #federal

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#capital #church #growing #growing up #i