#rain

Aren't they supposed to be hiring someone else to train me, ANYWAY?" "Yes," he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet with him. "and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him, too." "Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch." "Nice." Clary grinned, bending down to fold up the blanket they'd brought to sit on. "You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than ME?" "It could happen," Clary said. "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet can crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other side, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that, either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #meadow #training #clary-fray

Life is about solving for x ↗

— Jane Lescarbeau

#mathematics #philosophy #solve #life

You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.' It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.' 'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#isabel-culpeper #brain

But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right? "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wiled, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#brain

I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy #brain

When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#brain

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe. ↗

— Voltaire

#brain

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#intellect #sherlock-holmes #brain

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#brain

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#put-downs #stupidity #brain