#sit

I brought us all Big Macs,” he said happily. “I know you dig ’em, remember?” “What the…” Tohr tightened his grip on his shellan, just in case . . . well, shit, with the way things were going lately, anything could happen. “What are you doing here?” “It’s your lucky day, motherfucker. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#lassiter #humor

It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belong to the same species, and therefore understand each other. Small boys, on the other hand, do not understand girls, and therefore being looked after by one is a little like a hamster being looked after by a shark. If you are a small boy, it may be some consolation to you to know that even large boys do not understand girls, and girls, by and large, do not understand boys. This makes adult life very interesting. ↗

— John Connolly

#children #humorous #humor

If you were up to your neck in cat vomit and someone threw dog poop at you would you duck? ↗

— Joel Samaha

#inquisitive #humor

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations. ↗

— Emmanuel Mounier

#imagination #mind #person #thought #imagination

[On Chopin's Preludes:] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on the tiles of the Charterhouse, but it had been transformed in his imagination and in his song into tears falling upon his heart from the sky. ... The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power. ↗

— George Sand

#composition #genius #gift #magic #music

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world ↗

— Helen Keller

#inspirational #personal-growth #inspirational

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#grandiosity #imagination #imagination

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. ↗

— Anonymous

#generosity #guests #hospitality #inspirational #strangers

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brighter #fighting #fighting-battles #greater #greater-glory

It's only as bad as you make it. ↗

— Benjamin J. Carey

#inspirational #life #strength #inspirational