#itches

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#fae #mercy-thompson #urban-fantasy #vampires #werewolves

What do you mean?” Leslie’s voice was cool, as if she questioned witches who were flat on their backs being threatened by werewolves every day. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles-cornick #humor #interrogation #leslie #werewolves

I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick to Samantha. ↗

— Billi Jean

#werewolves-paranormal-romance #witches #werewolves

If you’re not good, I’ll burn your—” “Yeah, I know.” MeShack strolled to his bedroom. “You’ll burn my balls off. ↗

— Kenya Wright

#shapeshifters #trolls #urban-fantasy-romance #vampires #witches

I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#funny #sookie-stackhouse #true-blood #witches #funny

I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#ball player #continue #could #emotional #experiencing

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#any #because #college #college student #credit

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep. ↗

— John Updike

#novel #widows #witches #death

And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or something." "They never actually said," said Tiffany. "But I think it was something like that, yes." "And did his horse turn up?" said Miss Tick. "No," said Tiffany. "And that was strange, because if it'd turned up anywhere along the hills, people would have noticed it..." Miss Tick folded her hands, sniffed, and smiled a smile with no humor in it. "Easily explained," she said. "Mrs. Snapperly must have had a really big oven, eh?" "No, it was really quite small," said Tiffany. "Only ten inches deep. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#witches #humor

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense. ↗

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#knitting #stitches #time #yarn #meditation