#brooding

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#china #egg #hen #like #over

Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You need to show me how much you adore me so I can learn to love myself again." "You've never stopped loving yourself." "Because I'm amazing. ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#egotistical #humor #self-love #humor

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#enlightenment #expression #face #faces #life