#cal

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song. ↗

— Gerard Way

#song-lyrics #welcome-to-the-black-parade #lyrics

Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound corny; it just honestly did. The only sounds were the droning crickets and chip-chips of the bats, the farawy wind against the sand, and the occasional distant yowl of a dingo. There were no car horns.No trains. No jack-hammers. No lawnmowers No planes. No sirens. No alarms. No anything human. If you'd told me that you'd saved me from a nuclear holocaust, I might have believed you. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#nothingness #serenity #holocaust

The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're... NO... LADY... CYCLOPES! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mythology

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#destined #early #grave #skepticism

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#nobility #rascals #social #nobility

You can never be free of their criticism until you no longer seek their praise. ↗

— Dennis Ruane

#psychological #suspense #suspense

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#music #musical-taste #songs #love

I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging ↗

— C.J. Roberts

#chapter-one #dark #epilogue #livvie #romance

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains. ↗

— Imre Kertész

#deception #government #radicalism #tolerance #truth

Conformity is deformity ↗

— Sharon Desruisseaux

#cleopatra #egypt #historical #historical-fiction #isis