#humour

On a Tuesday they were we, and by Friday they were dead and they buried them in the courtyard side by side, oh, my love, and they buried them dies by side" breaking away from Gideon with some reluctance, Sophie, rose to her feet and dusted off her dress. "Please forgive me, my dear Mr. Lightwood-I mean Gideon- but I must go murder the cook. I shall be directly back. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humour #sophie-collins #forgiveness

Laughter can be a form of forgiveness—a gift, cathartic. ↗

— Briar Kit Esme

#inspirational #forgiveness

Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can. -Captain Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#explosives #humour #mercenaries #sarcasm #money

He spent a very uncomfortable few moments trying to remember his prepared position for explaining to God that he had nonetheless been right not to believe in Him on the basis of all available evidence, and that his empiricism and advocacy of sceptical enquiry was vindicated because faith-based belief had proven hugely detrimental to humankind's welfare. At the same time, another part of his brain was busy thinking: "Please don't let the Catholics be right, please don't let the Catholics be right. ↗

— Christopher Brookmyre

#business

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#home #humour #i #juvenile #sense

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. ↗

— Jorge Garcia

#daily #daily lives #harsh #harsh reality #human

You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure. ↗

— Gina Ranalli

#humor #humour #misadventure #titanic #death

I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did feel ultimately to me...just the fact everybody had married everybody. The books were so real and so grounded in what things are really like when you're that age, she nailed that so beautifully. And then there was this slightly fantastical ending. I know that was there for her to say, 'Really, I mean it, no more books,' but you do sort of go, people who were in a war are different from people who haven't been, and how does it affect them? But am I going to second-guess my favorite writer? I think not. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#realism #realism-in-fiction #age

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world? ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artsy #being-practical #cooking #creativity

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humour #life #death