#la

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty. ↗

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

#flames #love #love

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#maggie-stiefvater #normal #deception

A vibrator can last all night, too, vampire! - Denise ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#denise #hilarious #night-huntress #sex #sex

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#india

I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #wit

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#underland #young-adult #genius

The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#wine

The only real laughter comes from despair. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#groucho #laughter #marx #letters

You choose what you can live with, and what you can't live without. ↗