#mon

She had a rosebud on her ass, and wasn't happy about it. Standing naked in the bathroom, Eve adjusted the trifold mirror until she could get a good look. "I think I could bust her for this," she muttered. "Decorating a cop's posterior without a license?" Roarke suggested as he strolled in. "Felonious reproduction of floral imagery?'' "You're getting a big charge out of this, aren't you?" Miffed, Eve snagged a robe off the hook. "Darling Eve, I thought I made it perfectly clear last night I was on your side of the issue. Didn't I do my best to chew it off? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cuevas, ciegos de miedo y de ira acabaron despedazándose entre sí. Los pocos que no sufrieron quebranto, como recuerdo de la simpleza de sus corazones, se transformaron en monos. ↗

— Popol Vuh

#death #dioses #fear #humanidad #humanity

Nigdy nie wątp w człeka prawego i szlachetnego. Taki zawsze coś spieprzy. Oczywiście wszystko w imię większego dobra. ↗

— Simon Beckett

#death

Szansę dostaje się tylko w określonym czasie. Skrzyżowanie dróg, i tak dalej. Podejmujesz decyzję i skręcasz w lewo. Podejmujesz inną, skręcasz w prawo i trafiasz zupełnie gdzie indziej. ↗

— Simon Beckett

#death

Books and minds only work when they're open. ↗

— James Dewar

#intelligence #left-is-right-and-right-is-wrong #liberalism #open-mindedness #practicality

The more you Learn, The more you earn ↗

— Frank Clark

#intelligent #money #intelligence

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters ↗

— Mathias Malzieu

#monsters #torment #transform #wretch #love

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#money #love

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#buddhism #buddhist #ceremony #confirmed #disappointed

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. ↗

— David Ricardo

#common #fall #retrograde #rise #society