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How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline. "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#humor #mothers #humor

The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week. ↗

— Joe Morton

#character #create #doing #eight #fresh

I told her I'd wait forever for her, but that was before I found somebody else who'd give me a ride home. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #home #humor #impatience #impatient

Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?" "Yeah," Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#panda-pillow-pets #humor

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#humor #wordplay #humor

Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to? ↗

— Courtney Summers

#relationships #friendship

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #humor #insanity #humor

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#interview #nudge #platonic #radio #wink

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists. ↗

— Peter Baynham

#disagreement #i

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ↗

— George Will

#being #constantly #either #nice #part