#red

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#massachusetts #new-england #redcoats #england

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#iran #islamic-republic #sex #islam

Hatred is inveterate anger. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#hatred #inveterate

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#culture #cultured #enough #first #hand

She was a woman with red hair and green eyes— the traits which Satan supposedly relished most in mortal females. ↗

— Robert Shea

#satan

The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it's a wonder the whole galaxy doesn't hate you. The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don't get far enough out to really see that. -General Tagon & Captain Kevyn Andreyasn ↗

— Howard Tayler

#galaxy #hatred #military #sci-fi #sci-fi

When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. The idea here is to exact a full look at the worst. The reason boredom deserves such scrutiny is that it represents pure, undiluted time in all its repetitive, redundant, monotonous splendor. Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#boredom

I need to get to that tea party and wake up the guests." Jeb looks at me. "And how are you supposed to do that? Give a magical kiss to the half-baked hatmaker? ↗

— A.G. Howard

#jeb #splintered #tea

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#always #am #ask #compared #hard

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. ↗

— Al Boliska

#airline #boredom #hours #interrupted #moments