#pens

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#believed #brain #death #described #escaped

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ↗

— Woody Allen

#die #happens #i #just #want

Are you all right,” he whispered, his lips brushing the tips of my spiky hair. Granted, I knew he was only being discreet so as to save poor Hillary from being reamed again, but my knees didn’t know the difference. They betrayed me, buckling under his hot breath on my ear and the deep whisper that tickled my senses. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#family-saga #love #romance-love #romantic-suspense #young-adult

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#aggravation #children #dislike #early #early age

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#even #expensive #film #french #got

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#happens #i #middle #personal #sadness

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#car #clothes #expensive #expensive clothes #go

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#even #humor #important #short #short stories

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#crime #especially #extinguish #happens #help

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#action #care #characters #happens #i