#hum

Deep down under where his heart resided, strangled up in thorny vines of guilt, anger, fear and longing, there lay something deeper in him, something that he couldn’t see but she could. ↗

— Carol Oates

#hope #humanity #love #relationships #anger

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#art

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real ↗

— Thomas Merton

#humility

To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-experiences #life-missions #writers #writing #experience

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#fantasy #humanity #faith

I need a weapon,” Valkyrie muttered. “You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in a variety of martial arts by some of the best fighters in the world,” Skulduggery pointed out. “I’m fairly certain that makes you a weapon.” “I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick.” “I’ll buy you a stick for Christmas. ↗

— Derek Landy

#humour #skulduggery #stick #weapon #art

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages. ↗

— John Biggins

#humour #experience

You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#going-crazy #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #the-human-experience #experience

Her bouts of bitchiness were really starting to grow on him, which just proved how in over his head he was. ↗

— Katee Robert

#humor

The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#canvas #conceptual-art #empty #funny #humor