#hollow

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#hollow #dreams

You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It is the realisation that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-naturedly fleeced, but fleeced nonetheless, in public and on a New York sidewalk by card sharks, and who are unable because of social conventions to show their anger, who don't want to look like poor sports. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#nihilism #ruined-youth #anger

He has left nothing except for a note, which I find neatly folded under one of my sneakers. The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lena-holloway #stories-of-the-book-of-shhh #forgiveness

My name is Abbey. And I'm in love with a ghost. ↗

— Jessica Verday

#casper #hollow #love #love

Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#men

One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dread #go #hollow #katniss #let

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#curiosity

A meeting of the hearts of two Gemini has been known to end with explosive results, Mr Holloway. ↗

— (Jem) J.A. Belfield

#instinct #jem-stonehouse #paranormal-romance #sean-holloway #werewolves

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic. ↗

— Dan Hicks

#always #back #bodies #come #hollow

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#brotherhood #dictum #directive #earth #economic