#sight

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#glory #sight #spare #visions

You two are too cute,” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the counter. She had a sort of lopsided, open smile that made me think she laughed a lot. “Seriously. How long have you been going out?” Sam let go of my hands to get his wallet and took out some bills. “Six years.” I wrinkled my nose to cover a laugh. Of course he would count the time that we’d been two entirely different species. Whoa.” Counter girl nodded appreciatively. “That’s pretty amazing for a couple your age." Sam handed me my hot chocolate and didn’t answer. But his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively—I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be. I crouched to look at the almond bark on the bottom shelf in the counter. I wasn’t quite bold enough to look at either of them when I admitted, “Well, it was love at first sight.” The girl sighed. “That is just so romantic. Do me a favor, and don’t you two ever change. The world needs more love at first sight. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#love #romantic #sight #age

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. ↗

— Keith Henson

#games #insight #into #killing #least

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#argue #back #because #could #creative

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

#into #man #much #nothing #over

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it... ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#emotions #healing #heartbreak #love #nicholas

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #love-at-first-sight #true-love #love

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#regret #men

Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#descriptive #insightful #beauty