#ric

Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#arlen-brice #kiss-the-dead #laurell-k-hamilton #love

Katrina was sexy, Irene looks hot, come on people, just see, how beautifully she dances along the coast. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#hurricane-irene #hurricane-katrina #beauty

روح روز تابستانی و نفسِ گل سرخی، تابستان اما سپری شده است و موسم گل‌ به آخر رسیده است کجا رفته‌اند؟ که می‌داند، که می‌داند. خون قلب منی و جان آرامشی. قلب من امّا سرد است و جانم به سیاهی در نشسته است. کجایی تو ای یار؟ که می‌داند، که می‌داند. امید سالیان منی و آفتاب برف‌های زمستانم. سال‌ها اما زیر آسمانی ابر اندود به پایان رسیده است. کجا یکدیگر را باز خواهیم یافت؟ که می‌داند، که می‌داند ↗

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

#life

The pursuit of the beautiful was, for [Duruflé], a gesture of the soul, not merely a function or an exercise of musical giftedness, or even of liturgical necessity. That is, perhaps, what Mme Duruflé meant in saying that he had ... a Gregorian soul. ↗

— James E. Frazier

#beauty

I'm basically a homegrown American. ↗

— Junior Seau

#basically #homegrown #i

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#food #humor #richelle #richelle-goodrich #weight-loss

This isn't food." Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it. "This is...edible ornamentation. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#food

To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#native-american #philosophy #spirituality #food

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#civilization #consequences #environment #foresight #insight

No matter how close, you are always too far. My eyes are drawn everywhere you are... ↗

— Cora Carmack

#song-lyrics #resistance