#hammer

...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one... ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#arbell #bad #beat #bitter #cale

You’re all alone. No one wants you anymore. How long did you think we would all stay? You’ve killed each and every person who ever loved you. Even your children won’t want you. They will see what you have done. You must be the first ward in history to treat your guardian so badly that he left you. Do you think your mistress will stay? No. Elizabeth will take what she wanted and then she will leave you too. ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#skn-hammerstone #the-deceived #vessel-of-souls #ya #ya-horror

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

#force #get #hammer

I can't wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that's going to be the exclamation point. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#exclamation #exploding #going #hammerstein #i

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. ↗

— John Ashbery

#hollow #i #like #over #places

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#experience #get #got #hammered #hell

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away. ↗

— Charles Evers

#because #gonna #hammering #i #keep

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#door #france #hammering #love #make

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. ↗

— Imogene Coca

#butterfly #comedians #essentially #hammer #most

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#anvil #counsels #effect #hammers #harsh