#rhi

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. ↗

— Yann Martel

#because #certain #disbelief #help #i

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#mysticism #art

Give me time" "For you, always. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#linden #rhine #death

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face? ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#rhianon #sorrow #the-visitor #death

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#love

We can't sit around discussing pure evil without tea and biscuits, Iz. It's just not done. ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#izzy #rhi #love

There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#rhine #dreams

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#brains #face #figure #grace #hide

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#hurt #people #point #rhinoceros #skin

Rhiannon readied her speech. The speech she’d given more than once over the years to Éibhear and, when they were much younger, to her older sons. The one that included things like: “I’m sure your father didn’t mean that.” “Of course your father loves you.” “No. He didn’t try to sell your egg to the highest human bidder.” “And of course, he never tried to kill you while you slept! ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#love