#ed

Love is a treacherous emotion. You will fare better without it. We Medici always have. ↗

— C.W. Gortner

#medici #love

I was waiting at table tonight, on account of it being such a big party, and just as I was coming round with the savoury, one of the ladies went and broke her necklace by fidgeting with it at the ta ble. She thought she picked 'em all up but this one rolled under my foot and I stood on it tight until all the ladies went upstairs. I wanted to give it to you. You're a black pearl, Bertha, that's what you are and it's only right that you should have it. ↗

— Daisy Goodwin

#black-pearl #coloured #heiress #love #maid

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child. ↗

— James Crumley

#love

I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen. ↗

— girl

#failure #hatred #sadness #snow-white #love

All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #misery #love

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#love

Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten." My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look. Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right. "It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven." "Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#cat-crawfield #catherine-crawfield #funny #halfway-to-the-grave #humor

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#humor #humor

How did you get out of the suicide door?" Her disbelief was a living, pettable thing. "Magic." Her eyes narrowed. "There is no magic." "Maybe not for you. But I'm from out of town. ↗

— Dia Reeves

#dia-reeves #humor #humor

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

#medicine #mind #science #humor