#tale

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death. ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#humor #death

I love children. Eating them, that is. ↗

— Keith McGowan

#cuisine #eating #folktales #humor #love

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. ↗

— The Bhagavad Gita

#fable #hindu #hinduism #india #myth

Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching darkness of the universe. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#fairytales #life #philosophy #time #death

Why any self-respecting fairy godmother would pass them over for an inane twit who relied on animals to do her housecleaning was beyond her. ↗

— Marie Hall

#fairy-godmother #fairytale #her-mad-hatter #respect

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love

Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day came glimmering eastward silver-grey. Then trembling-veiled she would appear, and dance before him, half in fear; there flitting just before his feet she gently chid with laughter sweet: 'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me! For fain thy dancing I would see! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#love

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you, because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fairytale-love #rescuing-you #saving-you #standing-up-for-who-you-love #unrequited-love

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. ↗

— John Connolly

#fairy-tales #gruesome #horror #business

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#been #before #better #business #business leaders