#bon

The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #love

He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace-wayland #love #love

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #movies

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#carbon #carbon dioxide #co2 #concern #dioxide

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#bond #boring #classified #even #great

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bond #develop #eager #expanding

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.' ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#nickname #skin

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it. ↗

— Kylie Bax

#i #i can #out #pull #shoulder