#p

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modernity #post-modern #post-modernism #values #values-in-life

I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #magic-bleeds #ilona-andrews

What the hell was she doing on the nonhostage side of a handgun? ↗

— Suzanne Brockmann

#humour #military-romance #romance #romantic-suspense #funny

For fuck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#phury #zsadist #black-dagger-brotherhood

You are perfect for a female." "Not where I come from." "Then they're using the wrong standard. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#jr-ward #manny #payne #black-dagger-brotherhood

What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#black-dagger-brotherhood #phury #black-dagger-brotherhood

There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was PAIN -Vishous ↗

— J.R. Ward

#jr-ward #pain #vishous #black-dagger-brotherhood