#to

I want my life to be about LIVING, not leaving --which is why I'm LEAVING nothing behind. ↗

— Shelley K Wall

#living #living-life-to-the-fullest #humor

.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile. ↗

— Mark Haddon (Author)

#rhetoric #simile #humor

I hop onto the stage and joke-sing: 'The Phaaaanntom of the Opera is there, innnnnside your mind.' I attack the curtain with a flourish and sing on, 'Innnnside your mind. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#gray #humor #phantom-of-the-opera #humor

He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love. ↗

— Libba Bray

#humor #libba-bray #rebel-angels #humor

And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays! ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#humor #prophetic #humor

I don't need an invitation to step over your threshold. -Cristophe ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#humor #lili-st-crow #strange-angels #humor

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning-to-read #richard-feynmann #sense-of-humor #studying #understand

In his heart, she’d been smiling for him. But now she was smiling at Colin Bridgerton, he of the famous charm and sparkling green eyes. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #humor

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love-story #romance #shakespeare #writing #humor

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things. ↗

— Steven Brust

#taltos #vlad #humor