#era

I've heard a lot about you, Rose. Don't worry. It was all good." "No, it wasn't. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frostbite #richelle-mead #tasha-ozera #vampire-academy #christianity

Boy is he pissed," said Adrian. "Do you blame him?" asked Christian. "He just lost memerbship in the evil mastermind club. His brilliant plan fell apart, and now his daughter's missing when he thought she was somewhere safe." Adrian stayed pointedly silent. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#christian-ozera #last-sacrifice #vampire-academy #sacrifice

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#perseverance #day

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am... ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#sisters

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#progress #thoughtful #thought

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#conservative #liberal #states #united #united states

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#canon #literature #writing #art

he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#creativity #literature #novels #writers #writing

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. ("The New Russian Prose") ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#fantasy #literature #realism #art

What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive... An art, a whole civilization, may at any time slip through men's fingers in a very few years and be gone beyond recovery. If we are alive when such a thing is happening we shall hardly notice it until too late; and it is most unlikely that we shall know its causes. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#art