#hollow

Conversation between Jem and Ethan on Sean: '"... Has it never occurred to you that maybe your brother brings out the worst in people?" "Or the best," he said, "depending on which way you look at it." "You're as bad as he is." "Actually, I'm much worse. ↗

— J.A. Belfield

#ethan-holloway #holloway-pack #jem-stonehouse #paranormal-romance #sean-holloway

The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem ↗

— J.A. Belfield

#historical #holloway-pack #jem-stonehouse #paranormal-romance #sean-holloway

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

— John Ashbery

#hollow #i #like #over #places

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#even #fairy-tale #had #hollow #lot

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. ↗

— Washington Irving

#come #empty #end #hollow #keeping

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#footsteps #hollow #made #only #own

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#around #bitterness #breeds #cannot #half-hearted

Is that what you were doing in my room?” he asks after a moment. I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? “Yes. I was on assignment.” “I was your assignment?” “Yes.” He hesitates a moment, then grins. “That’s kind of hot. ↗

— Rachel Morgan

#faerie-guardian #funny #funny

Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#reality #stories #life

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. ↗

— Laura Riding

#circumference #criticism #draw #hollow #like