#th

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #escape #lie #lies #literature

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. ↗

— Sean Hampton

#anywhere #car #dream #gas #going

For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#i #irons #make #mean #red-hot

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#beautiful #beautiful places #being #get #go

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you. ↗

— Barry Hannah

#best #comes #little #spell #through

Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too.” And he leaped into the water after his friend. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #will-herondale

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#jean-paul-sartre #language #the-plague #existentialism

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#literary-theory #literary-criticism

The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall- ↗

— John Grisham

#love #true #truth #family

Have you ever seen anything quite as pathetic?" said Malfoy. "And he’s supposed to be our teacher!" Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first - SMACK! She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. Malfoy staggered. Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood flabbergasted as Hermione raised her hand again. "Don’t you dare call Hagrid pathetic you foul—you evil—" "Hermione!" said Ron weakly and he tried to grab her hand as she swung it back. "Get off Ron!" Hermione pulled out her wand. Malfoy stepped backward. Crabbe and Goyle looked at him for instructions, thoroughly bewildered. "C’mon," Malfoy muttered, and in a moment, all three of them had disappeared into the passageway to the dungeons. "Hermione!" Ron said again, sounding both stunned and impressed. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #hermione-granger #malfoy #ron-weasley #strength