#torture

He paused, gasping for breath, but continued in a soft, steady voice. "Allie, I...I love you. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#sarren #torture #zeke #love

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#repetition #sisyphus #torture

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look. ↗

— Tite Kubo

#isshin #not-old-enough #stop-sulking #torture

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#trella #torture

Only cowards torture women. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#torture #women #torture

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#loneliness #night #reflection #torture #torture

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized." Everyone in the room stared at him. "I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#bondsmagi #cauterizing #tongues #torture #torture

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is—other people! ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#people #torture

Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#build #coach #coaching #team #torture