#ashe

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#seduction #seduction

Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?" Alec thought for a moment. "Spiders," he said. Clary turned to Luke. "Have you got a spider anywhere?" Luke looked exasperated. "Why would I have a spider? Do I look like someone who would collect them?" No offense," Jace said, "but you kind of do. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #kindness

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#basis #even #flashes #getting #hot

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? ↗

— Mitch Albom

#books #dark #dysfunctional #everybody #favorite

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. ↗

— Alan Alda

#angry #angry person #flashes #get #i

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#arms #believe #car #crashes #day

When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife. ↗

— Gary Allan

#dancing #else #everybody #gets #gives

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#anthologies #comers #editors #established #feet

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#discover #else #going #jump #something

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#i #lot #movies #offered #same