#our

Mal: Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humour #snark #sisters

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to. ↗

— Keifer Thompson

#listen #parents #rebel #want #you

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. ↗

— William Trogdon

#come #deriving #free #most #night

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#dangerously #death #fate #felt #getting

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#path #patience #personal-mythmaking #story #time

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ↗

— Albert Pike

#alone #dies #done #immortal #others

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#humour #meet #immortality

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#exist #games #great #high-end #make

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. ↗