#hal

No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges.  That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches.  But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#difficulties #hardship #life #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I have a beard of fog that I wear on misty mornings. It’s not cigarette smoke, but I’d understand if you wanted to shave it off and inhale it. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#cigarette #fog #funny #humor #inhale

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock. ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#humor #jason-haley #humor

Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.' He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent. ↗

— John Flanagan

#ranger-s-apprentice #will #humor

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #clever #cognition #cognitive #cognitive-psychology

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#cartoons #humor #preaching #shallow #shallowness

Look, we need to make time, but we also need to be somewhat quiet." She faced him. "I am being quiet!" Pathik held a finger up to his lips. "Seriously. Quite. You don't really want to attract a lot of attention out here if you can help it." Rachel didn't like the sound of that. "Are there sheep-cats? ↗

— Teri Hall

#humor #line #sheep #teri-hall #humor

this one-way rocket to Death in Adulthood" "Normal Time" in New California Writing ↗

— Michael Chabon

#essay #life-s-challenges #age

Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain ↗

— Keri Lake

#demons #drew #halos #paranormal-romance #somnium

Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them because they're busy updating them. ↗

— Lucy Hale

#pretty-little-liars #business