#ray

She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #love #love

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #love

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian. ↗

— David Zucker

#because #bill #chase #chevy #chevy chase

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. ↗

— Ovid

#fortune #prayers

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#could #failed #flip #fly #ground

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#giants #look #pray #sir #things

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches. ↗

— Unknown

#kiss #love #pray #prayers #sincere

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#clean #fast #fat #his #lean

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his