#ed

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#edward-cullen #day

Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#zoey-redbird #wrong

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away. ↗

— Yosa Buson

#meditations #observation #perception #poetry #zen

You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony. "I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it. ↗

— Karina Halle

#sins-needles #artists

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#christianity #god #organized-religion #religion #yahweh

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion. ↗

— Anonymous

#knowledge #proverbs #scripture #wisdom #scripture

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#edge #god #line #ruler #scripture

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#buzz #competition #created #emmys #i

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#disappointment #emotions #english #excitement #fail

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#emotion