#games

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #love

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#lie

Firecracker Gale and dandelion Peeta are so different from each other that it's easy to imagine that a girl who would choose Gale is a completely different person than one who would choose Peeta. When people sit around debating who Katniss should choose, maybe what they're really debating actually is her identity - and the romance is just a proxy for that big, hard question about the ever-changing, unaware girl on fire. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#change

They never looked at anyone else, only at each other, with an expression that halted me. It was tender, loving, yes, but in an inhuman way, so intense. Divine, I felt. Or insane. ↗

— Anita Desai

#studies-in-the-park #love

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#games #knowledge #truth #men

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' ↗

— Jack White

#building #cable #cars #creative #dead

He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #fear #games #jamie-weise #love

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#games #humanity #olympic #olympic games #springtime

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#games #history #holding #means #olympic