#ross

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#always #become #before #choices #crossroads

Eve - "Ew." "Yeah," Claire said. "I need a shower." "I don't think a shower's going to cut it. Maybe fire hoses, and those brushes they use on elephants." Eve stepped back and offered Shane a hand up as he finally got untangled. "Speaking of elephants, you sounded like a herd of something coming down the stairs," he said. "What the hell are your shoes made of? Hooves? ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #shane-collins #ghost

Oh, come on, just this once," Eve said. "Protects your neck. As in your arteries and veins? That's kind of crucial, right?" "Thanks for the thought, but it doesn't go with my shoes." "You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now?" "No, I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you, Mikey." Michael, straight-faced, said, "He's got a point, because I would definitely take pictures. So would you." Eve had to grin. "Yeah, I would. Okay, then. But you'd look glam. I could fix you up with silver eye shadow to match. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#michael-glass #morganville-vampires #shane-collins #ghost

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#because #bill #bill gates #cure #gates

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #shane-collins #ghost

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#because #children #cry #going #i

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#crosses #everyone #i #me #mean

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#back #being #border #credit #crossed

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#adult #any #becoming #been #crossing

I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator. ↗

— Candice S. Miller

#activists #am #asking #endorse #governor