#anvil

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. ↗

— John Webster

#blows #devil #fashions #heard #him

He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap. "Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please." "What?" "Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password!" "You have GOT to be kidding." "Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#funny #ghost-town #humor #morganville-vampires #myrnin

Bite me, Goth princess,” Shane called from the back. “Not literally or anything.” “Maybe you should say that to Michael.” “Not funny, Eve,” Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrows and held her fingers up, measuring off about an inch. “Little bit,” she said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. ↗

— Aeschylus

#anvil #does #fate #firm #forging

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#always #anvil #god #higher #shaping

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#debate #discussion #dissent #freedom #hammered

Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much." "Dick. That's not what you said last night." "Bite me. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#gay #morganville-vampires #funny

But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. "Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was something else." Michael looked blank. "I'm a girl, Michael, it could have been all natural, you know. Tampons? ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #funny

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#funny #language #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #funny

Oliver laughed - actually laughed."I like this new Claire," he said. "You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright." Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#funny #ghost-town #humor #morganville-vampires #myrnin