#ch

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense. ↗

— Libba Bray

#anarchy

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#order #patterns #rain #randomness #weather

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#coincidence #random

I like children. If they're properly cooked. ↗

— W.C. Fields

#cooking

Sentinel meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.” “Time?” ... “Seven. Sascha's doing dinner.” “God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#mercy #ria #sascha #cooking

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friends #pity #school #schoolmates #memoir

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#coping-strategies #strategy

The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#lao-tzu #zen #zen

It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #communism

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#melancholy