#tone

The last time Sean found trouble, she arrived in a package of blonde hair and blue eyes.” ~ Giles on Jem ↗

— J.A. Belfield

#historical #holloway-pack #jem-stonehouse #paranormal-romance #sean-holloway

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found in the banks of the Amoy River in soutern China and is remarkable in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the gallows and the prison? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gems #greed #jewels #murder #precious-stones

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. ↗

— Aeschylus

#blow

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth? ↗

— Aeschylus

#blood #earth #spilt #upon

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#different #energy #great #i #kind

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#everything #lives #milestones #need #our

I wept not, so to stone within I grew. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#i #stone #wept #within

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#blood #content #iron #our #reason

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. ↗

— Henry Adams

#hustled #indian #infinite #life #like

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#cease #cease to exist #confidence #cornerstone #exist