#gen

(...) And who cares if you flash people your underwear, as long as you're kicking the crap out of them?" Lynn goes silent, like she recognizes that as a spark of brilliance but can't bring herself to admit it. "What's this about underwear?" Says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#insurgent #underwear #uriah #veronica-roth #funny

What do you see in him anyway?” “He doesn’t leave the toilet seat up.” I smiled bitterly ↗

— Jayde Scott

#funny #funny

Zombies, deadheads, corpsicles. What's the difference? They don't care. They don't have feelings to hurt. ↗

— Daniel Waters

#funny-yet-mean #generation-dead #funny

Yep those are goosebumps. Or a bad case of arm acne. Or as I call it, armcne. ↗

— Daniel Waters

#generation-dead #phoebe #funny

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#genius #meanness #mediocrity #poetry #funny

Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against dishonorable engagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to kill men with a sword. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#gentleman #killing #prancing #swords #art

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#application #control #emotions #intelligent #intelligent people

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way. ↗

— John Knowles

#gene #john-knowles #phineas #tree #age

Society tells the woman: You are a Peacemaker. The World is your home, build and keep it Safe. Yet rejects her when she takes Action in War time to Protect, Preserve and Provide for her Home. ↗

— Eresi Ann Uduka

#equality

Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view. ↗

— Caryl Churchill

#humor #home