#gh

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #wisdom #teenagers

... As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #sarcasm #suspense

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#grace #self-righteousness #self-determination

The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. “Nice knife.” The voice was deep but female. I threw my second knife. The blade bit into the mage’s chest. Shit. Missed the neck. “Here, have another one. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#fight #kate #sarcasm #sarcasm

oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #pestilence #apocalypse

When I hear your name, I involuntarily clench my butt cheeks. Is that love? I don’t know—I’m not Nicholas Sparks.
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— Jarod Kintz

#clench #hear #hearing #knowledge #listen

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#love

I want these gentle hands... and this kind smile... although I should not want such a thing. ↗

— Matsuri Hino

#romance #vampire-knight #love

Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help? ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#kindlehighlight

There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through. ↗

— Jay Bell

#kindlehighlight