#forsaken

When the nurse leaves, Doctor Rose mouths, “Act like you’re in pain.” Then she mimics a painful expression in case Summer doesn’t understand. On the contrary, Summer’s an expert at interpreting body language and reading lips. It’s all thanks to her observant nature while enslaved on the Cosmos. Who else could tell that Peter’s discomfort is due to him wearing the same pair of underwear for a week straight? Ah, yes, she always knew when day six and seven approached. She watched the crew member with much amusement as he waddled, pulled wedgies, and scratched his bum relentlessly. Not that anyone else cared to know that little nugget of information. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#forsaken-harbor #humor #laura-kreitzer #phantom-universe #science-fiction

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#forsake #forsaken #him #man #more

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#discouragement #drawing #everything #forsaken #go

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#causes #forsaken #home #impossible #lost

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#forsake #forsaken #longer #sin

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you! ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#earth #forsake #forsaken #jesus #joy

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#acting #altogether #burgeoning #by the time #career

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#deceased #delighting #forsaken #ghosts #graves

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. ↗

— Harry Browne

#casualty #during #first #forsaken #known

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#earth #fences #field #forsaken #hollow