#bones

I have no history but the length of my bones. ↗

Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette ↗

Clary,you're an artist, like your mother.That means you see the world in ways that other people don't.It's your gift,to see the beauty and the horror in things.It doesn't make you crazy-just different.There's nothing wrong with being different." -Luke ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#bones #cassandra #city #clare #art

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us? ↗

— Alice Sebold

#ocean-eyes #love

It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline. ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#bones-butter #change

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking. ↗

— Stephen King

#stephen-king #dreams

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past. ↗

— John Rucyahana

#faith #forgiveness #genocide #hope #rwanda

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. ↗

— William Harvey

#science #men

Whatever would give you the idea that I'm her damn brother? ↗