#curse

Imperio!” Moody jerked his wand, and the spider rose onto two of its hind legs and went into what was unmistakably a tap dance. Everyone was laughing — everyone except Moody. “Think it’s funny, do you?” he growled. “You’d like it, would you, if I did it to you?” The laughter died away almost instantly. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#mad-eye-moody #spells #spiders #tap-dance #funny

Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why don't you try a more subtle approach." "I demand you tell me your troubles," I said to my sister. "You're not as funny as you think you are," Rae replied. ↗

— Lisa Lutz

#lisa-lutz #funny

There’s something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn’t stop. There is no controlling it—love does what it wants when it wants. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#demon-kissed #love

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#curiosity #cursed #desire #female #female mind

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. ↗

— Bono

#cursed #digging #drilling #get #happy

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#makes #poverty #wise #you

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curse #pretty-girls #rosalind-connage #steel #trial

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#black #black magic #casual #curses #effective

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#curses #i #i think #only #parties

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#any #become #cursed #evil #i