#col

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#suzanne-collins #thoughtful #courage

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enemies #enemy #friend #friends #friendship

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#collins #humor #katniss #humor

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #love #peeta-mellark #smile #suzanne-collins

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#semicolons #writing #nothing

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ↗

— Maurice Switzer

#remaining-silent #wisdom #wisdom

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

#chocolate #joy #pleasures #suffering #think

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. ↗

— George Ade

#cold #dawn #gray #laughter #mirth

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#alter #anyone #collective #egos #gets

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich. ↗

— Josef Albers

#ate #berlin #cheaply #collected #first