#id

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#love

I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#idiots #humor

Ty." Zane's even, soothing tones finally broke on the short gasp of his name. "I Love you and I'm scared I'll lose you. Please don't leave me alone in the dark. ↗

— Madeleine Urban

#divide-conquer #ty-zane #love

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? ↗

— James Thurber

#answer #called #did #i #number

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#ideas #scrutiny #humor

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#humour #idiots #humor

Nothing builds confidence like live ammo. ↗

— Tim Dorsey

#firearms #humor #humor

The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #leanansidhe #humor

His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love you so bad." His teeth on her throat, biting hard, his lips soothing the spot. "So fucking much, so...so bad. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#downside-ghosts #terrible #love

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#descriptions #insider #people #perceptions #writers