#l

You're new here, aren't you?" Rolan asked. "Rose is visiting. She's a friend of the family." Viktoria said. "Ah," he said. "Now I remember hearing about you. I had no idea such a fierce Strigoi killer would be so beautiful." "It's part of the job description," I said dryly. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #viktoria #beauty

the people around you are mirrors of your life- only spend time with those who reflect the good more than the bad ↗

— Michelle V. Whalley

#inspirational

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care - ↗

— Robert Harris

#robert-harris #age

Aber hey, es ist ja nur eine Familie. Es ist ja nur meine Familie. Es ist ja nur alles. ↗

— Dirk Bernemann

#family #family

For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#historical #illustrations #importance #independent #information

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary. ↗

— Ed Royce

#companies #corrective #do the right thing #energy #energy companies

Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a chasm of ignorance and misunderstanding between species and worlds...and a baby step taken into life's endless possibilities for wonder and joy and surprise that could no more be reversed than one's first taste of chocolate. A dog kiss. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#life

Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning. One after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. And the countries, cities, gardens, the bays of seas assigned to my brush came closer, ready now to be described better than they were before. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#life

[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life