#my

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists ↗

— Gerard Way

#music #music-quotes #my-chemical-romance #music

Jumping to conclusions is like playing with damp gunpowder: both likely to go off in wrong direction. ↗

— Charlie Chang

#humour #myster #change

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . . trump the need to preserve your credit score, or purchase a new gizmo. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#credit #economy #money #unemployed #money

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference. ↗

— James W Loewen

#death-and-dying #ghosts #lies-my-teacher-told-me #spirits #art

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mystery #motivational

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#compliance #control #engagement #motivation #motivational

I'm probably gonna have to buy like a massive entertainment center for all of these movies," Jack said, staring up at his DVD's. It overwhelmed him for a minute, so he sighed, and finally turned back to look at me. I have no idea what he was planning to say, but his jaw fell open and his eyes widened. "Holy Hell. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#movies

Mitch---" "All right, baby, I'll shut you up." Then he did, his head slanting and his lips taking mine in a repeat performance of the open-mouthed, knock my socks off, rock my world, best kiss in the history of all time. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#mara-mitch #rock-my-world #dreams

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay ↗

— Gerard Way

#emo #im-not-okay #mcr #music #my-chemical-romance

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#friends #readiest #suppressed #truth #weapon