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There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#hades #love #love

What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of desire? ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#confusion #desire #love #love

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gallows-humor #humor #laughing #death

I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#argue #arguments #chores #cynicism #desire

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #life #life

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #percy-jackson #stalker #humor

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#government #humor #politics #public-opinion #humor

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#deep #his #invented #language #man

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #mind #humor

[On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#epigrams #humor #oscar-wilde #tribute #wit