#rin

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race. ↗

— Richard Powers

#luxury #men #only #race #white

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane) ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #devices #infernal #infernal-devices #life

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. ↗

— Emily Prager

#birth #every #knows #still #suffering

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards." ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bastards #copper #during #gods #person

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#acting #anymore #be-all #bring #end-all

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#changes #decided #during #family #had

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#bring #joy #lot #me #other

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#appearance #construction #created #during #external