#cale

Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#caletti #deb #honey #peach #sweetheart

Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#maggie #romantic #sweet #romantic

Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked. No, but it's very sweet of you. Eragon to Saphira ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#brightscales #dragon-riders #dragons #eragon #fantasy

Everything we'll accomplish, we'll do it together or not at all. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#maggie #accomplishments

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#clock #novels #stories #art

Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#the-nature-of-jade #nature

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#democracy #form #highest #our #scale

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#discovery #doe #facilities #large-scale #led

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#already #everyone #get #go #growing