#th

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#salem-falls #truth #words #ignorance

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#truth #ignorance

Nothing is real. ↗

— John Lennon

#reality #truth #real

They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#house-gods #lares #mythology #real-gods #rome

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #great #labor #means #money

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#born #rather #woman

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#cancer

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#first #i #line #orchestra #people

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. ↗

— Osip Mandelstam

#poetry #growth