#silver

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#curious #dog #humor #incident #mystery

Kelly looked at the cop, then sighed. “What a cluster. I take it you haven’t been killing young women and leaving their half-eaten bodies in the desert?” Adam was ticked. I could tell it even if he was looking like a reasonably calm businessman. Adam’s temper was the reason he wasn’t one of Bran’s werewolf poster boys. When angered, he often gave in to impulses he wouldn’t otherwise have given in to. “Sorry to disappoint you,” Adam told Kelly in silky tones. “But I prefer rabbits. Humans taste like pork.” And then he smiled. Kelly took an involuntary step backward. Tony gave Adam a sharp look. “Let’s not make things worse, if we can help it, gentlemen. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#humor #mercy-thompson #silver-borne #tastes-like-chicken #tony

Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#darryl #humor #mercy-thompson #silver-borne #humor

Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#optimism #silver-lining #inspirational

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine. ↗

— Germanicus

#denied #determine #gods #gold #i

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford. ↗

— John Aubrey

#journey #oxford #part #silver #some

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#the-silver-metal-lover #young-adult #age

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful. ↗

— Earl Scruggs

#gaudy #get #gold #i #i think

I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all. ↗

— Joe Lando

#blessed #cleansed #cloud #commissioned #dancing

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#love #magic #nick-and-norah #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg