#pan

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table. ↗

— Stendhal

#companionship #humor #trust #humor

Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus ↗

— Samantha Young

#humor #short-attention-span #humor

So, you're telling me the zoo commissioned you to make a zombie panda in order to avoid a potential international incident. ↗

— Lish McBride

#necromancer #panda #sarcastic #zombie #humor

We had so much to say to each other, like we’d been quiet our whole lives until we met. It was as if I had underestimated how hungry I was for a companion, how much I needed to be understood, to be pursued, to be seen and to be reflected in someone’s eyes. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#first-love #love #pursued #romance #understood

On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#baggy #clothes #dress #first #guys

Consequently, [Terayama Shuuji] often played the buffoon to his more serious colleagues, as he did in a July, 1970, dialogue with Mishima Yukio . . . At one point, [Terayama] laughingly suggested to the very earnest Mishima that Tenjou Sajiki might sponsor a one-man show in which Mishima would demonstrate his famous ability to flex his carefully sculpted upper-body muscles. Mishima refused to be angered by this obvious lack of respect. ↗

— Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

#japanese-lit #anger

Las mujeres se esmeran mucho para estar bien vestidas para hombres que solo quieren verlas desnudas. ↗

— Arturo González-Campos

#español #humor #love #relaciones #relationships

–¿No está enojado? –Estoy contento, –dijo. –Ellos van a ser capaces de cuidar uno del otro cuando yo me haya ido, o por lo menos puedo esperar eso. Él dice que ella no lo ama, pero seguramente ella llegara a amarlo con el tiempo. Will es fácil de amar y él le ha dado todo su corazón. Lo puedo ver. Espero que no se lo rompa. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #spanish #tessa-gray #will-herondale #love

Oh, she's still here; she's just not as pretty... anymore. ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

The vision I see in the mirror is me, who I am, supposedly, but that vision does not express the way my mind works or the way I feel inside. A realization creeps over me, the words tumbling into my head quietly like falling leaves. I. Am. Crazy. This is my new shameful truth. Something changed yesterday. A door has been opened that I can never close again. I touch my reflection, the glass smooth and cold, not really believing that the girl I see is me. ↗

— Victoria Sawyer

#depression-quotes #mental-disorders #mental-health #mental-illness #panic