#inking

She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#coping #drinking-your-troubles-away #happy-hour #loss #lost-love

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#intellect #jamie-weise #love #love-story #possess

The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#drinking #humor #humor

I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed. ↗

— Victoria Schwab

#thinking #humor

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. ↗

— John Travolta

#died #how #i #icon #james

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. ↗

— Alex Grey

#individuality #prized #society #thinking #tries

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. ↗

— William Trevor

#fiction #imagination #indeed #thinking #understanding

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life #maybe #stars #wink #winking

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example. ↗

— John Sladek

#best #dealing #even #example #for example

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#concept #had #i #i remember #lebanon