#green

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc. and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. ↗

— John Green

#tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #business

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force. ↗

— John Green

#dating #high-school #humor #john-green #paper-towns

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#imagination

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars ↗

— John Green

#human-nature #john-green #stars #the-fault-in-our-stars #nature

In the Medieval poem, we are surrounded by Winter, but I always imagined the Green Chapel and the castle of Lord and Lady Bercilak in all seasons. I was quite convinced (and still am) that Gawain did not return to Camelot immediately after his initiatory encounter with the Green Knight. That's where 'The Green Knight's Apprentice' began, I think, in my imaginings of what Gawain would learn and experience after his initiation was complete ↗

— Virginia Chandler

#arthurian-legend #gawain #green-knight #medieval #experience

John Matthews' title, 'Gawain, Knight of the Goddess', was confirmation that I wasn't imagining the many layers of Gawain, the court of King Arthur, and most assuredly Gawain's role as a Protector and Champion of the Mother Goddess ↗

— Virginia Chandler

#arthurian-legend #gawain #green-knight #imagination

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#faith #inspiration #prayer #faith

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#inspirational #musician #inspirational

If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose. ↗

— Terry Brennan

#lose #old #outmoded #say #they say

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#good #greens #i #i can #kitchen