#beat

...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't... ↗

— John Geddes

#beatings #monk #priest #spirit #beauty

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly. ↗

— Jim Otto

#everyone #game #lightly #never #never take

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool. ↗

— Alan Goldsher

#paul-is-undead #zombies #business

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #tris #death

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#drug-craze #transgression #death

Are you scared?” “Of what?” “Dying.” Jemma was nothing, if she was not blunt. “I’m not expecting to die, Jemma. I’m expecting to have treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, whatever it takes, but I’m expecting to come through this. ↗

— Calvin Wade

#death-and-dying #death

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over. ↗

— John Lennon

#dream #individuality #walruses #dreams

He doesn't speak for a long time, until I am quiet again. "Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you." "With what?" "My bare hands, obviously. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#beatrice-prior #four #insurgent #tobias-and-tris #tobias-eaton

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#dreams

Finally.., The love we take is equal to the love we make...! ↗

— The Beatles

#equality