#om

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#coming #cut #flowers #keep #spring

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#leaving-home #sad

Be awesome! Be a book nut! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#awesome

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#dimitri #rose #blood

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse #southern-vampire #love

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. ↗

— Anonymous

#bible #gentile #god #gospel #jew

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#women

And now, the waitress standing in front of them. She was beaming, as if Ian had just handed her a puppy with a Visa Black card in its mouth. "Can I get you anything else?" she asked as she cleared their untouched plates. "It doesn't look like enjoyed your breakfast very much!" "Just the bill, please." She smiled. "Are you going sightseeing today? The first stop on the Freedom Trail is just around the corner. If you go ask Bob over there at the front desk, he can–" "We have other plans," Ian interrupted. "That's great! Anything fun?" Natalie looked up at the waitress and gave her a fake smile. Except that on Natalie, it looked more demonic than cheerful. "Our mum's on trial for murder. Today's the verdict. But if it ends early, we'll be sure to pop by the Freedom Trail." The waitress's smile vanished. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#natalie-kabra #the #freedom

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#communism

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#equivalent #negative #performance #print #score