#lex

-I'm going to heaven! I replied. -What do you mean, you're going to heaven? -Let me pass. -And what will you do in heaven, my poor child? -I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy. ↗

— Tom Reiss

#death #god #revenge #death

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#american #american spirit #ball #baseball #bat

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good. ↗

— Keith Hernandez

#coming #everyone #feel #good #looked

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#beastly #books #friendship #loneliness #reading

Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you." And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lauren-oliver #lena #romance #dreams

However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. ↗

— Robert Huber

#also #before #community #disorder #flexibility

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#dreams #romance #sleep #dreams

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

He's got courage," Alex said. "Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and-- ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#alex #anger #courage #raoul-of-goldenlake #anger

Dahlia shook her head. “While I don't want to experience that again, I learned a lot about myself today and about you. And Nick, even. I didn't know it was possible for me to feel closer to you. I should send that fucking bitch a fruit basket. ↗

— Arden Aoide

#dahlia #lurve #experience