#butter

If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#business

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts ↗

— Rory Miller

#change #evolving #growing-up #personality #psychology

Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death. - Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm ↗

— Nalini Singh

#butterflies #illium #death

I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best. ↗

— Sarah Weiner

#butter #food #food-love #humour #food

Tell me you’ve seen the world. Now, you’ve come back home Tell me you’ve carried me with you, That you’ve held me close. Tell me you’ve missed me Or that I’m not crazy for waiting cause Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #will #love

I loved you too much to lose you twice. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #love

I had found him again, and with him, my world had become completely unwound. It was messy and impulsive, naïve and irrational, and somehow, right again. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #love

You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#olympians #peanut-butter #percy-jackson #tyson #time

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. ↗

— Laura Miller

#dreams #love #dreams

たとえば、「あるボタンを押すと今の自分にとって必要な教育的なコンテンツしか出てこない」というようなフィルターがかかればいいのかもしれませんが、ウェブだといつのまにか、自分が勉強しようと思っていたこととは違う、全然関係ないことに辿りついてしまい、そのまま流されていってしまうということがよくあります。こんな現象を、イスラエルの教育メディア学者ガブリエル・サロモンは、「バタフライ・ディフェクト」と呼びました。つまりウェブのようなメディアだと、誰もがフラフラと飛び回ってしまうだけで、落ち着いて深い思考や学びができなくなる危険性がある。[185〜186ページ] ↗

— 飯吉透

#open-education #education