#scott

Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a love of the supernatural lingers among the more mountainous districts of the northern kingdom; for 'the Schoolmaster' finds it no easy task, even when aided by all the light of science, to uproot the prejudices of more than two thousand years. ("The Phantom Regiment") ↗

— James Grant

#scots #scotsman #scottish #supernatural #superstition

You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love #romance #want #experience

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#peeps #scott-la #scott-westerfeld #life

Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away. ↗

— Beth Nimmo

#believe #inspiration #inspirational #jesus #jesus-christ

If ye canna see the bright side o' life, polish the dull side ↗

— Christina Dodd

#funny #scottish #funny

No idea how you figured out the riddle, but you scooped the first prize. Congratulations. You've just won a vacation to a big, relaxing place called a grave. ↗

— Jayde Scott

#humor #jayde-scott #vampires #humor

this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die. ↗

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

#music #scott-pilgrim #life

But instead of taking the cue to leave, Patch crossed to Scott in three steps. He flung him around to face the wall. Scott tried to get his bearings, but Patch slammed him against the wall again, disorienting him further. “Touch her,” he said in Scott’s ear, his voice low and threatening, “and it’ll be the biggest regret of your life.” Before leaving, Patch flicked his eyes once in my direction. “He’s not worth it.” He paused. “And neither am I. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#patch-cipriano #scott #life

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#cal #peanut #peeps #poisoned #scott-westerfeld

When a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him passage. You. Speaker - ever since I first learned Stark and read the Hive Queen and the Hegemon, I waited for you. I said many times to my father, Rooter, of all humans he is the one who will understand us. Then Rooter told me when your starship came, that it was you and the hive queen aboard that ship, and I knew then that you had come to give me passage, if only I did well." "You did well, Human. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#ender-wiggin #orson-scott-card #speaker-for-the-dead #life