#creatures

There are no coincidences. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself. ↗

— Margaret Stohl

#beauty

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! ↗

— Thomas Ken

#below #blessings #creatures #father #flow

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.' ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#below #creatures #exposed #goes #had

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#certain #couched #creatures #make #must

I believe in the immortality of all creatures. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#creatures #i #i believe #i believe in #immortality

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ethan-wate #lena-duchannes #supernatural-fiction #age

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#life #love #pain #life

The Scriven men wore stack-heeled boots and pearl-studded evening coats; the ladies in their vast skirts looked like mythical creatures, half woman, half sofa. ↗

— Philip Reeve

#humor #mythical-creatures #men

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#being #being honest #comedy #creatures #honest