#lang

jika anda memiliki kesempatan mendapatkan cinta pertama di sebuah toko kelontong, meskipun toko itu bobrok dan bau tengik, maka rebutlah cepat-cepat kesempatan itu, karena cinta semacam itu bisa menjadi demikian indah tak terperikan! ↗

— Andrea Hirata

#cinta

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#deep #his #invented #language #man

I speak the language of love. That’s right, I speak Russian. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#language-of-love #love #russian #love

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#humor #language #humor

The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#humor #humor

What's the trick to remembering that a sandwich is masculine? What qualities does it share with anyone in possession of a penis? I'll tell myself that a sandwich is masculine because if left alone for a week or two, it will eventually grow a beard. ↗

— David Sedaris

#humor #language #humor

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed! ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#language #humor

Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give. ↗

— Solange nicole

#humor #life #people #selfishness #society

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return. ↗

— Solange nicole

#compassion-wisdom #love #people #selflessness #solange

It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#love #love