#low

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ah #frequent #higher #highs #lows

Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before 'Relax,' said the night man, 'We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave ... ↗

— The Eagles

#california #gluttony #greed #shallowness #sin

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #brightness #dejan-stojanovic #glow #literature

You are one corrupt, perfectly white flower, yearning for its own reflection, in the calm waters ↗

— Die

#corrupt #desires #flower #manga #reflection

She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose].... ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#eva-ibbotson #roses #russia #snow

Well, this should be easy, then.” Puck smirked. “We’ll just stroll in the front door, waltz up to Virus, grab the scepter, have some tea and save the world before breakfast. Silly me, thinking it would be hard. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#robin-goodfellow #tea

In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends. ↗

— Kakuzō Okakura

#tea

...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#rumors #shallow #judgement

I wish everyday could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#judgement #masks #rj-palacio #wonder #judgement

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#hollowland #zombies #zombies