#ran

He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait... ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #magic-strikes #ilona-andrews

And then it hits me like a fast, open-palmed, stinging smack in the face. Having a ghost boyfriend WAS weird ↗

— Lisa Schroeder

#simile #simile

Your hair is like butterflies,” Sebastian said, giggling like a child. “That’s nice,” Firen said impatiently. “Keep moving.” “Fantastic. I always like my days better with a touch of insanity,” Gabriella quipped. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fantasy #fiction #humor #paranormal-fantasy #paranormal-romance

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#difficult #enjoyed #hard #rewarding #something

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. ↗

— Tom Allen

#cell research #cures #diseases #finding #holds

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#coming #does #east #frustration #highest

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process. ↗

— John Abizaid

#clear #concerns #disrupt #event #hard

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#authority #build #communities #decisions #done

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#lazy #lion #veteran

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. ↗

— Aeschylus

#friends #never #somehow #trust #tyranny