#greet

And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made out of glass, with the hardness of his expression slowly dissolving into tentative uncertainty. "You are not really dying," he said, the oddest tone to his voice, "are you?" Jem nodded. "So they tell me." "I am sorry," Will said. "No", Jem said softly. He drew his jacket aside and took a knife from the belt at his waist. "Don't be ordinary like that. Don't say you're sorry. Say you'll train with me." He held the knife to Will, hilt first. Charlotte held her breath, afraid to move. She felt as if she were watching something very important happen, though she could not have said what. Will reached out and took the knife, his eyes never leaving Jem's face. His fingers brushed the other boy's as he took the weapon from him. It was the first time, Charlotte thought that she had ever seen him touch any other person willingly. "I'll train with you," he said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#brothers #first-greeting #jem-will #parabatai #tears

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#greet #important #less #official #ordinary

I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#daydreamer #entered #friendly #greeted #had

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#along #bus #cheer #day #dublin

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#hat #lady #left #life #looks

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#earliest #eat #garment #greet #invisible

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. ↗

— Alberto Sordi

#failings #full #greet #italians #like

If I had a hand for a penis, would a hand job be appropriate in place of a handshake at business meetings?
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— Jarod Kintz

#greetings #hand #hand-job #handshake #meetings

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#irony #questions #love

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. ↗

— James Broughton

#denmark #france #gracious #greeted #identified