#teddy

You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You’re one of us now—the Tribe of the Teddy Bear.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear ↗

— J. Joseph Wright

#magic #mg #middle-grade #supernatural #teddy-bear

I'm an angel of death. I don't need night school, woman. You should just give up on this detective shit and start killing people for a living. It's simple, honest work, and you ain't got the brains for anything else. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#death

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo-march #longing #lost-love #love #spoil

A Teddy Bear is for life - not just for Christmas ↗

— Lorraine Hitchings

#teddy-bears #life

If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#love

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#love

...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#orgy #sex #teddy-bear #vampire #love

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#emotion

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#sebastian #summer #teddy-bear #summer

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#buy #had #immediate #into #little