#heart

She thought she saw a muscle twitch in mis cheek. "'Hello' is girly," he informed her. "Real men are terse. Laconic." "So the more manly you are, the less you say?" "Right." Simon nodded. Past him she could see the humid fog lowering over the East River, shrouding the waterfront in feathery gray mist. The water itself was the color of lead, churned to a whipped cream consistency by the steady wind. "That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means,'I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #heartbreak #simon-lewis #men

…the child's heart bled when it was broken. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-men #louisa-may-alcott #men

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#heart #jazz #note #play #risk

I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly. ↗

— Cheryl Ladd

#dear #dear friend #friend #funny #gorgeous

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#brain #complicated #heart #kindness #need

People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father. ↗

— Emile Lahoud

#hearts #people #remembering #their #voted

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference. ↗

— Greg Lake

#difference #doing #heart #just #makes

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. ↗

— John Buchan

#born #bottom #detective #every #every man

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#always #away #be happy #drama #dull

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#away #capitalism #corrupts #destroys #exploits