#mo

This building fool could only be Bess of Hardwicke, a woman whose name is seldom seen in print without the word “redoubtable” in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her face. I redoubted it. ↗

— Joann Spears

#historical-fiction #six-of-one-by-joann-spears #tudors #women-s-humor #historical-fiction

Why do relationships have to be so complicated? ↗

— Erin Hunter

#lionblaze #truth #humor

Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#family-relationships #flash-fiction #hint-fiction #six-word-memoirs #women

Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face" - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions: ↗

— Kresley Cole

#humor

It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver ↗

— Dan Wells

#fiction #humor

Move your hands, Morgan,” he commanded. “It hurts!” she protested. “It’s supposed to. ↗

— Cara Bristol

#erotic-romance #humour #erotic-romance

Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was. ↗

— Atsushi Ohkubo

#humour #manga #manga

Yes. We will live the rest of our lives in hell. It's not so bad: as long as you're prepared for it, you can live anywhere. ↗

— Mizuki Nomura

#manga #manga

My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station. And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection—certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real—this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#meaning_of_life #moments #experience

I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers. ↗

— Betsy Lerner

#mental-illness #food