#cal

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#belief #kayden-and-callie #opinion #perspective #self-esteem

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#calvin #calvin-and-hobbes #procrastination #procrastination

Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ↗

— China Miéville

#practical-applications #practice #problem-solving #procrastination #theory

She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her. I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#warm-bodies #zombies #zombies

oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #pestilence #apocalypse

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#apocalypse

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#boots #cabot #john #meg #pierce

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ending #endless #apocalypse

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#writing #apocalypse

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#cal-thompson #gay-bar #virginity #apocalypse