#m

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #escape #lie #lies #literature

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. ↗

— Sean Hampton

#anywhere #car #dream #gas #going

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#art #bars #books #content #forest

For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#i #irons #make #mean #red-hot

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#days #deserved #go #half #i

Take your finger out of your nose, Miss Steal. ↗

— Fanny Merkin

#humor #funny

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you. ↗

— Barry Hannah

#best #comes #little #spell #through

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #will-herondale #will-herondale

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#william-herondale #will-herondale

Will tossed the bloody cloth aside. “And you wonder why we aren’t friends.” “I just wondered,” Gabriel said, in more subdued voice, “if perhaps you have ever had enough.” “Enough of what?” “Enough of behaving as you do.” Will crossed his arms over his chest. His eyes glistening dangerously. “Oh, I can never get enough,” he said. “Which, incidentally, is what your sister said to me when─” The carriage door flew open. A hand shot out, grabbed Will by the back of his shirt, and hauled him inside. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#gabriel-lightwood #will-herondale #will-herondale