#th

TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life’s mission in order to reveal what your soul wants you to be. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#happiness #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #life-mission

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#story #writing #authority

The authority is not granted you to deny the return of the king! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#authority

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#the-good-guy #persistence

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#tragedy

When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine. "Put your clothes in for a wash," he said. "They were disgusting." Ginny always thought that the only way of getting clothes clean was by drowning them in scalding water and then whipping them around in a violent centrifugal motion that caused the entire washing machine to vibrate and the floor to shake. You beat them clean. You made them suffer. This machine used about half a cup of water and was about as violent as a toaster, plus it stopped every few minutes, as if it were exhausted from the effort of turning itself. Sluff, sluff, sluff sluff. Rest. Rest. Rest. Click. Sluff, sluff, sluff, sluff. Rest. Rest. Rest. "Who thought to put a window on a washing machine?" Keith asked. "Does anyone just sit and watch their wash?" You mean, besides us?" "Well," he said, "yeah. Is there any coffee? ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#ginny #humor #humour #keith #funny

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood. ↗

— Joe McNally

#parenting #relationships #photography

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #curiosity #george-r-r-martin #tyrion-lannister #wall

Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#song

Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane] ↗

— J.R. Ward

#j-r-ward #jane #lover-unbound #vishous #help