#sm

Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!" "Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#sarcasm #warriors #sarcasm

Lifaen beamed and cried, “Isn’t she glorious? See how her scales catch the light! No treasure in the world can match this sight.” Similar exclamations floated across the river from Narí. “Bloody unbearable, that’s what it is,” muttered Orik into his beard. Eragon hid a smile, though he agreed with the dwarf. The elves never seemed to tire of praising Saphira. Nothing’s wrong with a few compliments, said Saphira. She landed with a gigantic splash and submerged her head to escape a diving sparrow. Of course not, said Eragon. Saphira eyed him from underwater. Was that sarcasm? ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#eragon #orik #saphira #sarcasm

Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#knitting #sarcasm #smoking #sarcasm

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#episcopalians #vampires #catholicism

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#mysticism

Beloved,/ I am so glad,/ So very glad You have come. ↗

— حافظ

#mysticism

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. ↗

— Rumi

#poetry #rumi #mysticism

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. ↗

— William James

#hallucinogenic-drugs #mysticism #nitrous-oxide #paranormal #mysticism

I always knew this story would break my heart ↗