#la

Nice tree," he says. That boy has unexpected depth. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#tucker-avery #unexpected

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#landscapes #photography #photography

Fall down again, Bella?' No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#eclipse #emmet-cullen #jacob-black #stephenie-meyer #twilight

The eye should learn to listen before it looks. ↗

— Robert Frank

#photography #photography

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#literature #photography #photography

We all use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#present

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mania #manic #mental-illness #psychology #present

He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #herondale #jace #lightwood #morganstern

If you're gonna buy me a present, don't spend more than twenty five bucks, you'll get a blowjob anyway. ↗

— Gerard Way

#present

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#davita #harp #past #planning #potok