#ra

Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#balls #court #fuzz #good #hard

Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#death #memories #tessa-gray #will-herondale #death

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#inspirational #death

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#frustration #imagination #imagination

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #imagination #literature #stories #humor

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did. ↗