#su

James “Knockout Jimmy” O’Brien, Granite Fall’s very own boxing legend—a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear “for protection.” My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging. ↗

— Kate Avelynn

#issues #new-adult #young-adult #new-adult

That's who he was—not who he is now—and it sounds like you need to decide if you can deal with what he used to do. ↗

— Georgia Cates

#addison-donavon #beauty-from-surrender #beauty-series #georgia-cates #laurelyn-prescott

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#prejudices #truths #men

Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack ↗

— Nina Jean Slack

#devour #guilty #indulge #love #pleasure

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#harvard #humor #innuendo #naughty #yale

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. ↗

— André Breton

#suicide #humor

Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#dionysus #gods #humor #names #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

Is there anything more pathetic than a flower that doesn’t get enough sunlight and dies, because it couldn’t get out of bed until four in the afternoon? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #pathetic #sunlight #funny

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humorous #insulting #smiling #humor

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #shadow #sunshine #louisa-may-alcott